The program provides a theoretical understanding of the principles used in data analysis for business decision making. It also engages students in practical, hands-on, transformative learning experiences with real-world data. The successful Business Analytics graduates will be able to manage and improve analytics processes, identify big data technologies which support business analytics goals, differentiate analysis models for a variety of business cases, and apply the best model for each case. The successful student will also be able to create meaningful representations of business data and communicate the analysis of that data to business professionals.?