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Birkbeck, University of London: Business Analytics

Institution Birkbeck, University of London View institution profile
Department Birkbeck Business School
Web http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
Telephone 0203 907 0700
Study type Taught

Summary

Our MSc Business Analytics is designed to enhance your skills in data analysis and evidence-based decision-making. It is ideal if you are looking to develop your knowledge and technical skills in an area of high demand by all types of organisations.

Why choose this course?

  • This course will enable you to understand and contextualise big data and business analytics.

  • You will learn how to critically apply a range of analytical techniques in business functions and propose tactically viable recommendations based on the analysis.

  • The course will give you the chance to practise effectively communicating the results and outcomes of analysis, including writing reports and giving coherent and professional presentations.

What you will learn

This course provides a blend of technical, quantitative modules in data analytics alongside more applied business-focused modules that will develop your ability to make data-driven decisions within a business and organisational setting.

You will develop the skills to analyse and interpret data to generate insights and intelligence, apply forecasting methods to model scenarios that inform organisational decision-making and solve complex business problems, and communicate technical information to different audiences.

How you will learn

You will be taught using a variety of means including pre-recorded lectures, seminars, online discussions, Moodle discussion forums, self-directed study, reading, activities in the computer laboratories and one-to-one discussions with tutors.

You will also take part in practical sessions on data analytics, simulation and other statistical data analysis exercises using available datasets, web analytics services and established analytical tools.

This MSc Business Analytics is available to study full- or part-time. It has both a daytime and an evening timetable with classes taking place in the afternoons or evenings, so you can choose what suits you best depending on work, family, or other commitments.

Highlights

  • Our academic staff are active researchers as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals. We have particular research strengths in international business and strategy, the management of innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, corporate governance, sports management, and marketing, as well as financial management and accounting.

  • We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

  • Birkbeck students are drawn from a diverse range in terms of age and academic, social and cultural backgrounds. This creates a stimulating and supportive learning environment.

  • Birkbeck is based in Bloomsbury in central London, which is a centre for international business.

  • You will have access to Moodle, our online learning resource where all information and materials relating to your programme of study and modules are available, as well as the Birkbeck Library with its wealth of digital resources.

Careers and employability

On graduating, you'll have an array of important transferable skills, including:

  • strategic thinking

  • effective communication

  • the ability to apply numeracy and quantitative skills, including the use of models to answer organisational questions

  • qualitative research skills

  • the ability to recognise ethical dilemmas in analytical situations, and to apply ethical, stakeholder and organisational values to situations and choices.

This Master's degree will prepare you for analytics roles, such as business analyst, insight analyst or data analyst in a business or management setting within large as well as small, start-up organisations. If you are interested in further study it will also provide you with a strong foundation for PhD research in this area.

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Located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of London, everything the UK’s Capital city has to offer is on our doorstep.

We offer over 250 taught and research postgraduate programmes across the humanities and social sciences, business, law; and science and we’re a part of the prestigious University of London, one of the world’s best known and most highly regarded universities.

Birkbeck, University of London is built for the busy. We have over 200 years’ experience of providing exceptional learning experiences designed to fit in with students’ schedules. Our range of different study options allow our students to choose …

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