New focus area to cover topics in data mining, visualization, and more Tulane University's Freeman School of Business has announced the launch of a new MBA concentration in Analytics. The school promises that the new concentration will help students learn to manage issues surrounding data in their day-to-day business work. "As the world becomes increasingly computerized and everything … [Read more...] about Tulane – Freeman Adds MBA Concentration in Analytics | FIND MBA
Big Data Gets Master Treatment at B-Schools – WSJ
11/5/14 B-school students can’t get enough of big data. Neither can recruiters. Interest in specialized, one-year master’s programs in business analytics, the discipline of using data to explore and solve business problems, has increased lately, prompting at least five business schools to roll out stand-alone programs in the past two years. The growing interest in analytics comes amid a broader … [Read more...] about Big Data Gets Master Treatment at B-Schools – WSJ
CEU Business School to Launch an MSc Program in Analytics with IBM | FIND MBA
5/9/14 Budapest's CEU Business School, in cooperation with IBM, will launch a master's program in business analytics. The one-year MSc in Business Analytics aims to provide students with an overview of business analytics and big data: " By understanding the pressing questions posed by managers, the methodological challenges of statistics, as well as the power and limitation of technologies, our … [Read more...] about CEU Business School to Launch an MSc Program in Analytics with IBM | FIND MBA
Career alert: A Master of analytics degree is the ticket — if you can get into class – Computerworld
4/24/14 Computerworld - The toughest part about earning a Master of Science in Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) may be deciding which job to accept. The 75 students in the class of 2014, which is nearing graduation, received, in total, 246 job offers from 55 employers. Added together, the starting salaries and bonuses offered to grads of the university's Institute of Advanced … [Read more...] about Career alert: A Master of analytics degree is the ticket — if you can get into class – Computerworld
Business Schools Divided on How to Approach Analytics Training – US News and World Report
By some calculations, modern technology—particularly in the social media and smartphone era—has led to the generation and archiving of more data in the past few years than anytime in history. The umbrella term, "big data," has been wielded in a variety of ways, broadly capturing the explosion of exponentially increasing troves of data: everything from users' Web-browsing trails to shoppers' … [Read more...] about Business Schools Divided on How to Approach Analytics Training – US News and World Report