Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics

Experiencing the Texas McCombs community firsthand is one of the best ways to gain valuable insight into your fit with our MBA culture. Join us at an on-campus event to meet admissions, current students, and our world-class faculty. For the next two years you will enjoy boundless opportunities to explore, grow, and transform. You’ll supercharge your career, expand your professional network, and sharpen your skills to be an influential leader. And you’ll do it all in Austin, Texas, one of the most dynamic and innovative cities in the U.S. When you graduate, you'll have the knowledge to do anything you can dream. The Full-Time MBA experience at the McCombs School of Business allows you to immerse yourself in learning, exploration, and developing meaningful relationships with your classmates. You'll take classes at Rowling Hall on The University of Texas at Austin campus, and the flexible curriculum gives you the option to specialize in one of 20 concentrations, 14 of which are STEM certified.The Business Analytics concentration is designed to cater to the growing demand for talent formanaging, analyzing, predicting, and discovering insights from massive amounts of complex data (e.g., transactions, social networks, sensors, etc.) to solve business, social, and economic problems. According to many industry studies (e.g., McKinsey Global Institute), there is a need for 140,000 – 190,000 professionals with deep business analytics skills and a shortfall of 1.5 million data savvy business managers. This Business Analytics concentration provides a foundation in analytics by bringing together deep expertise in applied statistics, optimization, and decision theory to apply in different contexts, including market basket analysis, consumer behavior, social networks, recommendation systems, fraud and crime detection, healthcare fraud, supply chain, finance, security threats, etc.

Obtain copies of your official transcripts, have official test scores sent to UT Austin, or submit a test waiver petition.Complete your Texas McCombs MBA application by the submission deadline for the round in which you are applying. This includes all relevant application components - essay, transcripts, self-reported test scores, letter of recommendation, resume, etc.All Full-Time MBA applicants are required to submit a GMAT, GMAT Focus, GRE, or EA score. We will waive the testing requirement if:An expired (taken 5+ years ago) GMAT, GRE, or EA score is submitted orGeneral Test Waiver (merit-based) is approvedWithin your application, you will provide your professional resume. We strongly suggest that all applicants have at least two years of full-time post-bachelor's work experience (not internships). Full-time work experience is calculated up until the time of enrollment (the start of classes). This encompasses all work completed since your bachelor's degree, including teaching, military service, and government experience (e.g. the Peace Corps).Cover Letter and Optional StatementWe require one recommendation from a person who has supervised your work and/or assessed your performance. The Admissions Committee limits each application to one letter of recommendation and cannot accept additional recommendations.The Graduate School requires applicants to have earned a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the United States or a comparable degree from a foreign academic institution.A grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or a comparable GPA in upper-division work—junior- and senior-level courses—and in any graduate work already completed is also required