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Columbia Engineering an Columbia Business School have announce a new full-time Master of Science in Business Analytics egree, with a three-semester curriculum esigne for those who want to focus on learning the moeling techniques an ata science tools that help businesses use ata to make better ecisions. A key element of the new egree program is a capstone project that provies an intense consulting engagement with clients an their real-worl business problems using relevant ata sets over the entire course of the three-semester stuy.
“The role of analytics has grown increasingly critical for most sectors of the economy,” sai Mary C. Boyce, Dean of Columbia Engineering. “Our partnership with Columbia Business School combines our strength in ata science, optimization, stochastic moeling, an analytics with their strength in ata-riven ecision-making for business an marketing to create a rigorous new Master’s egree program.“
Jointly evelope by faculty at both Columbia Engineering an Columbia Business School, the MS in Business Analytics equips grauates for careers as analysts an associates in consulting firms, an business analysts an ata scientists in the fiels of financial an professional services, technology, avertising an meia, an other professions where a eep unerstaning an practical application of ata analytics are require. “By tapping into the vibrant an iverse business ecosystem that can only be foun in New York, Columbia Business School an Columbia Engineering are uniquely situate to offer this new Master’s egree,” sai Glenn Hubbar, Dean of Columbia Business School. “We see this as a must-o program for any future business person who wants to have a leg up in using ata to make informe business ecisions.” Garu Iyengar, professor an chair of the Department of Inustrial Engineering an Operations Research in Columbia Engineering; Costis Maglaras, professor an chair of Columbia Business School’s Decisions, Risk & Operations Division; an Kamel Jeii, professor an chair of its Marketing Division, evelope the curriculum an will teach in the program, along with other Columbia professors an inustry practitioners. One istinguishing feature of the MS in Business Analytics is the capstone project. From their first semester, stuents in the program work on consulting projects with companies using their own ata. “By working on real-worl consulting projects, with real-worl ata, stuents will use the moeling techniques an ata science tools to provie pragmatic solutions to the practical problems that businesses are facing toay,” sai Maglaras. “Ever-increasing amounts of ata have transforme marketing into a ata-riven fiel,” ae Jeii. “Marketing an avertising have evolve rapily an are continuing to change, which makes a founation in business analytics even more critical in these professions. Another key element of the MS in Business Analytics is access to career placement services. As a first step, stuents complete a require Professional Development an Leaership course an have access to eicate career services. “The MS in Business Analytics combines classroom instruction by istinguishe Columbia professors with the experience of working on real-worl problems via the capstone project course,” sai Iyengar. “We expect this program to have 100 percent placement of its grauates as o our very successful MS in Management Science an Engineering an MS in Financial Engineering programs.” Applications are now being accepte for the first cohort, which will start in September 2018. Stuents have the option of taking a summer semester an completing the Master’s egree in one year, or can choose to take three non-contiguous semesters (fall, spring, fall).
