Business Analytics MSc

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.

* It is accredited by the Institute of Analytics (IoA).

* 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 will I 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 will I 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 (in particular during dissertation supervision meetings).

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 to enhance your knowledge, skills and understanding in business analytical techniques.

This MSc Business Analytics is available to study full- or part-time. It has both a daytime and an evening timetable.

Highlights

* This course is accredited by the Institute of Analytics, a global membership organisation that supports professionals and organisations working with data, analytics and artificial intelligence.

* Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management.

* 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.

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.