Earning a business degree with a major in business analytics will equip you with expertise in data management, analysis theories, and advanced analytics tools. You'll tackle real-world business challenges in the business analytics lab and specialize in areas like accounting, finance, marketing, or management for in-depth or industry-specific analysis.
Business analytics is an exciting interdisciplinary field that addresses how information technology can be used to help organizations in our increasingly data-rich world. The business analytics degree curriculum at Pacific’s Eberhardt School of Business focuses on both tools and methodologies. It combines theory and applications with real-world projects and industry data.
Pacific’s business analytics degree program provides you immersive experiences that develop your professional skills and networks to serve as a bridge to your career. Gain experience through required internships, immersive class assignments with business organizations and the business analytics study abroad program. You can volunteer for events, visit companies and network with alumni as you earn your business analytics degree.
With the help of the Eberhardt Career Management Center, business analytics students compete for credit-bearing internship opportunities with companies across industry sectors located in the Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
The Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Analytics/Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) Pathway Program offers an accelerated program of study for students who want to complete their BSBA in Business Analytics in four years while earning credits toward the MSBA degree. Undergraduate students apply to this pathway program in the spring semester of their sophomore year. To be eligible for the program, they must have a minimum grade point average of 3.3 in Business Analytics courses and must have completed MATH 37 and BUSI 100 with a grade of ‘B’ or better. Once in the program, pathway students must complete 120 units and all other BSBA requirements by the end of their senior year.
Fifteen of these units (five courses) may come from the MSBA program and may also count towards the MSBA degree if the student achieves a grade of ‘B’ or better. To be eligible for admission into the MSBA program, pathway students must obtain a grade of ‘B’ or better in the five MSBA courses and maintain a minimum 3.3 grade point average in Business Analytics courses. Pathway students apply to MSBA program in the fall of their senior year and must be accepted before moving on to the MSBA program. If accepted, they can complete the MSBA in one additional semester.
Students in the pathway program must take five courses in the MSBA program during their junior and senior years: MSBA 210, MSBA 230, MSBA 240, MSBA 260, and MSBA 270. These courses may count toward both the 120-unit BSBA in Business Analytics requirement and the 30-unit MSBA program requirements.
In order to be admitted and transfer these courses into the MSBA program, students must earn a grade of “B” or better in all five courses and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.3 in Business Analytics courses. Students who do not apply to the MSBA program can still earn a BSBA by completing all program requirements in the Business Analytics major. In this case, they may substitute completed MSBA coursework in which they earned a grade of “C” or better for comparable courses in the Business Analytics major.
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Leili Javadpour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Analytics
ljavadpour@pacific.edu
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When you earn your business analytics degree at Pacific, you will benefit from close working relationships with dedicated and passionate professors. Our distinguished faculty members are firmly engaged in the business analytics industry and provide students with exceptional opportunities for hands-on experience.
The business analytics degree in Pacific’s Eberhardt School of Business prepares you with the tools and techniques you need to succeed in an increasingly data-driven business world. The coursework will help equip you to collect, evaluate and use data to help businesses become smarter, more strategic and better stewards of their resources.
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