MS in Business Analytics: Synthesize Data to Make Better Decisions

Business Analytics is the intersection of business and technology, offering new opportunities for a competitive advantage. Business analytics unlocks the predictive potential of data analysis to improve financial performance, strategic management, and operational efficiency.

Gain a Competitive Advantage
Graduates will be equipped to influence decision-making, strategy and ultimately drive better business results by gaining the ability to transform data into a powerful and predictive strategic asset. Business Analytics is critical in preparing organizations to solve 21st-century business challenges and participants of this program will have exposure to innovative methodologies that support data driven decision making.

McKinsey Global Institute Analysis 2011
“The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big data and make decisions based on their findings.”

What Differentiates this Program?
APPROACH: The NYU Stern Master of Science in Business Analytics, an advanced business degree program, teaches students both to understand the role of evidence-based data in decision making and to leverage data as a strategic asset. The program is designed for experienced professionals interested in gaining competitive advantage through the predictive potential of data.
SCHEDULE: The Master of Science in Business Analytics is designed to accommodate participants’ busy schedules. Participants attend five concentrated, rigorous sessions in New York and Shanghai over a one-year period.
NETWORK: Participants have the opportunity to cross-learn and share best practices among their cohort and through their exposure to top faculty and business leaders in the growing field of Business Analytics. With a degree from New York University, graduates will join NYU’s extensive global alumni network.
APPLICATION: The culmination of the program is the Business Analytics Capstone, which gives students an opportunity to apply the learnings of the program by presenting a unified and practical case on a topic of their choosing.

Two Campuses
NYU Stern: New York City is one of the world's great financial and business capitals, and NYU Stern is in the middle of it all. Close to Wall Street, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, NYU Stern is one of the world's leading research institutions. Academic excellence is always a top priority at NYU Stern. With its incomparable location and prestigious reputation, the university has been able to attract top-tier professors from around the globe as well as distinguished visiting professors from the worlds of business, politics and academia. NYU Stern has a distinctive edge in its ability to balance business theory with practical experience. It also provides unique opportunities for students to meet business leaders and learn firsthand how their companies work.

NYU Shanghai: The creation of NYU Shanghai is another major step in the evolution of NYU as the first global network university – standing with NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi as a portal campus. For China, the creation of NYU Shanghai is a major step in the country’s higher-education reform. The global network provides a new architecture for the University, an organic, integrated system permitting faculty and students to move easily within the system to pursue their scholarly interests. The free flow of ideas that has long characterized academic disciplines and the advancement of thought finds an expression in the free flow of the University’s community.