Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Business Analytics

The online Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Business Analytics is designed to provide you with the skills needed to analyze and interpret data to make strategic business decisions, solve complex issues, and increase efficiency within your organizations.

Courses utilize analytical tools and software designed to help you learn the effectiveness of analytics and technology to reach solutions through a quantitative and qualitative approach. You can customize your certificate through one of four course sequences:

Leveraging Analytics
Aligning analytics with business challenges is critically important to the success of any business analytics strategy. Learn the role analytics plays in the relationship between strategy and value.
Managing Data
With the explosion of disparate data sources, organizations must build a solid data foundation to achieve value from their data. Learn how to extract, transform, and store disparate data into a format which can efficiently be utilized for analytics.
Predictive Analytics
Developing a road map for the future is predominant in many aspects of business today and will only become more ubiquitous as the amount of available data grows. Learn how to unlock patterns and identify trends to guide future decisions.
Uncovering Insights
With the explosion of technology, companies now have more information than ever at their fingertips, and need to create the framework, tools, and techniques to help extract valuable insights. Learn how to utilize visualization, storytelling, and mapping to understand the value of data.
Customized Certificate
Combine courses from any of the above sequences to create your own customized certificate focused on your interests and goals.

Upon completion, you will have gained communication, creative and critical thinking, and leadership skills that can be applied in your area of work.

Related Programs

Drexel University offers a variety of Graduate Minors that can be added to any master's degree program.
State restrictions may apply to some programs.

Curriculum

This program is organized into four 10-week quarters per year (as opposed to the traditional two semester system) which means you can take more courses in a shorter time period. One semester credit is equivalent to 1.5 quarter credits.

Choose One Sequence
Leveraging Analytics
MGMT 510	Business Problem Solving
MIS 612	Aligning Information Systems and Business Strategies
MIS 624	Systems Analysis & Design
STAT 610	Statistics for Business Analytics
Managing Data
MIS 632	Database Analysis and Design for Business
MIS 635	Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce
STAT 610	Statistics for Business Analytics
STAT 632	Datamining for Managers
Predictive Analytics
BUSN 715	Business Consulting Projects
OPR 601	Managerial Decision Models and Simulation
STAT 610	Statistics for Business Analytics
STAT 642	Data Mining for Business Analytics
Uncovering Insights
MIS 630	Inter-Active Decision Support Systems
MKTG 606	Customer Analytics
MKTG 607	Marketing Experiments
STAT 610	Statistics for Business Analytics
Total Credits		12.0

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Admissions Criteria

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

Required Documents

With multiple ways to submit documents, Drexel makes it easy to complete your application. Learn more by visiting our Completing Your Application Guide.

A completed application

Transcripts

Official transcripts from all universities or colleges and other postsecondary educational institutions attended (including trade schools)
Unofficial transcripts may be sent to expedite the review of your application. Official transcripts must be received if you are accepted into the program.

Letter of Recommendation: One professional letter that speaks to your performance and accomplishments, and attests to your ability to succeed within the program.

Resume: Quality and quantity of professional experience will be evaluated

Essay: This personal statement (approximately 500 words) should describe in detail your reasons for pursuing a graduate degree from LeBow College, your short-term and long-term career plans, and how your background, experience, interests, and/or values, when combined with a Drexel graduate degree, will enable you to pursue those goals successfully.

Additional requirements for International Students

Tuition

The tuition rate for the academic year 2020-2021 is $1139 per credit.

This program is not eligible for Financial Aid.
Special tuition rates available for Drexel University Alumni, Military members, and members of our Partner Organizations.
- These rates apply only to new online students and students being readmitted.
- These rates apply only to fully online courses. Hybrid or on-campus courses may have different rates.
- Tuition rates are subject to increase with the start of each academic year in the fall term.
- All students must contact applyDUonline@drexel.edu within the first two weeks of the term to request tuition savings for which they qualify.
- Special rates cannot be combined. If you qualify for more than one special rate, you'll be given the one with the largest savings.
- When receiving special tuition plans with Drexel University Online, you may not combine them with other tuition benefits that may be available from Drexel University.

Academic Calendar

2020-2021 Academic Year

Term

Classes Begin

Classes End

Exams Begin

Exams End

Fall 2020

September 21, 2020

December 5, 2020

December 7, 2020

December 12, 2020

Winter 2021

January 4, 2021

March 13, 2021

March 15, 2021

March 20, 2021

Spring 2021

March 29, 2021

June 5, 2021

June 7, 2021

June 12, 2021

Summer 2021

June 21, 2021

August 28, 2021

August 30, 2021

September 4, 2021

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Online Graduate Certificate Program in Business Analytics