Business Graduate Certificate Admission Requirements

Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree with either an overall GPA of at least 2.8, a 3.0 in the last 60 hours, or a 3.2 in the last 30 hours.

Exceptions:

• Passage of select rigorous professional certification exams such as the Project Management Professional, MCSE, and MCSD exams. In this case, a résumé and personal interview required. Decision of the Management or Business Information Systems Department Admission Committee and/or program coordinator is final.
• At least 5 years of substantial relevant professional experience. In this case, a résumé and personal interview required. Decision of the Management or Business Information Systems Department Admission Committee and/or program coordinator is final.

Program Dismissal

A graduate business student receiving a grade of F in a graduate course will be permanently dismissed from the graduate program in which they are enrolled and will not be eligible for admission to other graduate business programs. If the F was received under extenuating circumstances, the student may appeal the dismissal to the college graduate committee within one year of receiving the failing grade.

Students receiving an F due to academic dishonesty will have no right of dismissal appeal once all levels of academic dishonesty and grade appeal processes have been exhausted

Program Requirements

The graduate certificate in Business Analytics requires 15 hours.

Required Core Courses (nine hours)

• BINS 5351 - Data Analysis and Reporting

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• BINS 7304 - Business Applications for Decision Making

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• BINS 7309 - Cloud-Based Business Intelligence

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• IFSC 5345 - Information Visualization

Elective Courses

*If student has no undergraduate database course

• BINS 5350 - Business Database Management Systems

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• BINS 7303 - Systems Development and Database Design *

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• BINS 7398 - Seminar in Current Topics (with approval of program coordinator)

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• BINS 7304 - Business Applications for Decision Making

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• BINS 7309 - Cloud-Based Business Intelligence

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• IFSC 5325 - Data Mining Concepts and Techniques
• IFSC 5360 - Social Computing
• IFSC 7360 - Data Protection and Privacy