{"id":771,"date":"2024-01-25T19:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/graduate-professional\/?page_id=771"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:19:28","slug":"msba-lp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/graduate-professional\/msba-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s in Business Analytics (Landing Page)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"primary-header-menu-container-inner butler-plus-lp-header-menu\">\n\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"site-branding\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\">\n\t<div class=\"site-branding-inner\">\n\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/30\/2024\/08\/08145029\/butler_4cp_1-4w.jpg\" class=\"custom-logo\" alt=\"Butler+\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"100vw\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .site-branding-inner -->\n<\/div><!-- .site-branding -->\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<style>.primary-header-menu-container-inner {display: none} .primary-header-menu-container-inner.butler-plus-lp-header-menu {display: flex; justify-content: center; padding: 20px 0;} .butler-primary-container {display: none;} .custom-logo {filter: none !important; max-width: 75%;} .site-branding-inner {justify-content: center; padding-right: 0;} @media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.butler-plus .mobile-menu-utility-visible {display: none !important;} .custom-logo {max-width: 100%;}} button.mobile-switcher {display: none !important;} .squiggly {display: none !important;}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-form alignfull\"\n\t>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content-form-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"content-form-eyebrow t-h6\">\n\t\t\t\t\tUnlock the Power of Data\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"content-form-heading decor-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\tMaster&#8217;s in <span>Business Analytics<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-form-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\tAccelerate your career in data with Butler&#8217;s Master of Science in Business Analytics. 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Provided through the Lacy School of Business, the program offers students with the skills they need to excel in today\u2019s data-centric world.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nNo entrance exam is needed before students start learning from industry professionals, gaining proficiency in business analytics, interpretation, and visualization, and developing critical thinking skills through a flexible online format that covers artificial intelligence, data mining, and predictive modeling.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-group\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card\" style=\"grid-row-start: 1; grid-row-end: 3;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"card-heading t-h6\">application deadline<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 35px;\">December 1\u2013Spring Semester Start<br \/>\nJuly 15\u2013Fall Semester Start<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card\" style=\"grid-row-start: 2; grid-row-end: 4;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"card-heading t-h6\">quick facts<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>100% online with weekly live instruction<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #00a3e0;\">GRE\/GMAT not required<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scholarships available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card\" style=\"grid-row-start: 3; grid-row-end: 5;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"card-heading t-h6\">credit hours<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">30<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"callout-one-column-two-buttons callout-one-column-two-buttons--blue callout-one-column-two-buttons--bg-reverse alignfull\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"callout-one-column-two-buttons-heading decor-text t-h1\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Don&#8217;t miss our<\/span> next info session!\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"callout-one-column-two-buttons-cta data-gtm-calloutBar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a data-contentTitle=\u201cRSVP Today\u201d\n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/go.butler.edu\/portal\/msba-info-sessions\" \t\tclass=\"button-solid  button-solid--hover-none t-p1\">\n\t\t<span class=\"button-solid__label\">RSVP Today<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"program-outcomes\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"program-tuition\"><\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"tabgroup-wrapper tabgroup-wrapper--inline tabgroup-wrapper--margins tabgroup-general alignfull\" id=\"program-details\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabgroup-intro\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabgroup-headline decor-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Flexible, affordable, and demand-driven<span>\u2014earn more than a degree with Butler.<\/span><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tabgroup js-tablist horizontal\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"mobile-switcher\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"tabitem \"\n\tid=\"tab-item-curriculum\"\n\tdata-tab-title=\"Curriculum\">\n\t<a class=\"tab\"\n\t\thref=\"#tab-content-curriculum\">Curriculum<\/a>\n\t<div class=\"tabitem-content\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-curriculum\">Curriculum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Master&#8217;s in Data Analytics program meets you where you are (no GRE or GMAT required) and empowers you through two foundational skills courses, five core courses, and four concentration courses. All programs feature a flexible online model where students take one seven-week course at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class='acc-flex-container-plus' >\n\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26df-acc-row-plus'\n\t\t\t\tclass='acc-row-plus data-gtm-openAccordion'\n\t\t\t\tdata-accordionTopic=\"Foundational Skills\"\n\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false'\n\t\t\t\taria-owns='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26df_acc-content-panel'>\n\t\t\t<div id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26df-acc-title' class='acc-title'>\n\t\t\t\tFoundational Skills\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div aria-hidden='true'\n\t\tid='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26df-acc-content-panel' class='acc-panel-plus'>\n\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p><strong>DATA600 DATA ANALYSIS USING R (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course serves as the introduction to the Data Analytics master\u2019s program. Its purpose is to introduce to students R and R Studio as a data analytic platform. Students will learn the basics of R by using it to review and learn basic statistical analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong> Admission to degree and\/or certificate programs or permission from the program director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA604 PYTHON PROGRAMMING AND DATA MANAGEMENT (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This online course is an introduction to analytical programming in Python and Data Management using SQL. The course presents foundational material required for the Data Analytics core courses to ensure students are ready for that material. Some of the course material will be similar to that offered in a computer science course but will focus on the skills most often required by analysts rather than programming and database specialists.<br><br><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong> Admission to degree and\/or certificate programs or permission from the program director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class='acc-flex-container-plus' >\n\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26f5-acc-row-plus'\n\t\t\t\tclass='acc-row-plus data-gtm-openAccordion'\n\t\t\t\tdata-accordionTopic=\"Core\"\n\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false'\n\t\t\t\taria-owns='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26f5_acc-content-panel'>\n\t\t\t<div id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26f5-acc-title' class='acc-title'>\n\t\t\t\tCore\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div aria-hidden='true'\n\t\tid='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd26f5-acc-content-panel' class='acc-panel-plus'>\n\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p><strong>DATA610 INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course provides an experiential introduction to current issues and methods in data mining, applications of some introductory data mining algorithms. A leading statistical and data mining software package, R will be used to apply techniques learned in the class to some modern and classic data sets. Topics include algorithms for supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600 Data Analysis using R; DATA604 Python Programming and Data Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA612 VISUALIZATION, STORYTELLING AND ETHICS (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability to communicate the results of data analyses is as important as the analyses themselves. This course will introduce topics important to data storytelling, to allow students to become better data presenters and critical viewers of data. Various visualization tools will be presented, and students will learn how best to report data to various types of audiences. Students will gain experience producing interactive, automatically updating data \u201cdashboards.\u201d Students will collaborate to produce collective visual stories, and provide critical reviews of each other\u2019s work. Relevant areas of data ethics will also be introduced, including the protection of customer or patient privacy and the importance of conveying the uncertainty of results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600 Data Analysis using R.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>DATA616 DATA ENGINEERING, CURATION, AND ANALYTICS WITH AI (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course provides an experiential overview of current issues in data analytics from both analytic and computer sciences perspectives. The focus is on learning techniques for 1) scraping, cleaning, and manipulation of raw data from a variety of live sources and preparing them for analysis, 2) learning to manipulate and reorganize data to apply a variety of analytic tools, and 3) manipulate a variety of data features to enhance to predictive power of statistical models. The focus of this course will be primarily on techniques and tools used to extract data from various sources (primarily live and active data streams), prepare it for analysis, and then apply those analyses with a special emphasis on the understanding of feature engineering: the process of creating representations of data that increase the effectiveness of a predictive model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600 Data Analysis using R, DATA604 Python Programming and Data Management; DATA610 Introduction to Data Mining Core courses.<br><br><strong>DATA618 AI APPLICATIONS IN TEXT PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will utilize Python to develop text and image processing techniques. Students will leverage industry standard methodologies for text and image processing. 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The material emphasizes data-driven managerial decision making in a structured approach to problem solving. Topics include an introduction to big data, viewing data and analytics capabilities as strategic assets, and employing analytical models to solve problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600, DATA610<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA642 MARKETING ANALYTICS (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course reviews the statistical processes and analytical tools marketing managers may need and could employ in order to make decisions regarding marketing functions such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, among other functions. Further, this course reviews the best analytical processes marketing managers may use to evaluate customer lifetime values, customer buying behaviors, international market analyses, and digital marketing effectiveness. The statistical analyses covered include, but are not limited to cluster analyses, descriptive analyses, analyses of variance, regressions, structural equation modeling, and multilevel analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600, DATA610<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA644 DATA ANALYTICS FOR ACCOUNTING (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class covers the analysis of data related to accounting professionals. The focuses include analytic techniques for decision making and the examination of \u201cbig data\u201d involving accounting information. Data analytics has become a relevant skill for all business managers and particularly accountants who often know both internal and external data better than anyone inside the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA600, DATA610<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA648 SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS (GRADUATE, 3 CREDIT HOURS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the last course in the program, students will have the opportunity to leverage the learning from all core classes and apply their skills in a real-world project. Supply chains are dynamic and complex environments that involve making decisions on different levels and demand the use of real data for real business problems. A set of different analytics tools will be used to collect, organize, and analyze data that support key supply chain decisions, as well as the different challenges and opportunities they pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong>&nbsp;DATA610, DATA612, DATA614, DATA616, DATA618<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class='acc-flex-container-plus' >\n\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd2720-acc-row-plus'\n\t\t\t\tclass='acc-row-plus data-gtm-openAccordion'\n\t\t\t\tdata-accordionTopic=\"Health Analytics\"\n\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false'\n\t\t\t\taria-owns='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd2720_acc-content-panel'>\n\t\t\t<div id='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd2720-acc-title' class='acc-title'>\n\t\t\t\tHealth Analytics\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div aria-hidden='true'\n\t\tid='block_acf-block-69a5d4afd2720-acc-content-panel' class='acc-panel-plus'>\n\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p><strong>DATA 620: Utilization of Health Data<br><\/strong><br>This course will focus on healthcare data governance, management, and ethics. The course will explore the techniques involved with healthcare data capture, cleaning, storage, and security and examine methods to overcome challenges of managing healthcare data across multiple systems. A critical review of the ethical considerations of healthcare algorithm utilization will be conducted.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATA 622: Statistics &amp; Research Methods for Healthcare Analytics<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of this course is to expose students to the health outcomes research and help them prepare for non-traditional career options, including pharmaceutical industry, managed care, or fellowships. It would entail learning to conduct research in the field of health outcomes and design a research study in a specific therapeutic area or condition. Students are encouraged to select a therapeutic area of interest before the class begins. 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