Business Data Analytics BSc(Hons)

Business Data Analytics BSc(Hons)

Your course

Business Data Analytics prepares you with the requisite knowledge, skills and experience to create, analyse and manage data driven initiatives as well as associated business processes to facilitate decision making and large-scale business data analytics in organisations.

The concept and importance of “data analytics” has been known for a while, but the last few years have seen a sizeable swell in interest and media attention and also demand for graduates into this career path. The programme is designed to develop both professional and technical skills – technical in terms of data visualisation, database structures, and use of software – and professional skills in terms of the commercialisation of designed innovation and organisational decision making.

You’ll learn to operate in the spaces between the business disciplines and IT and obtain the skills to both innovate in the new economy and commercialise those innovations. On completion, you’ll possess the capacity to absorb and re-combine knowledge from different disciplines and innovate for the advantage of your organisation.

This course is part of NOVUS Lite, an innovation developed between the university and the NOVUS Trust. The Trust is an industry-led organisation that focuses on developing talent in the transport, logistics and supply chain management sectors. Being part of the scheme opens up wider opportunities for work experience and networking with professionals in the sector, and is valuable to your professional development. The course provides a fantastic opportunity to join the NOVUS Lite scheme, which involves a guaranteed third year placement, a paid summer placement and a company mentor (subject to availability). NOVUS company guest lectures and site visits are also a benefit of the scheme. To join, you’ll need to successfully pass a series of short assessments held at the start of the first year of your studies. For details of NOVUS Lite, please refer to: https://www.novus.uk.com/how-it-works/ novus-lite/

Example modules

• Understanding Business Analytics • Introduction to Data Analysis • Applied Data Science • Data Analytics and Creating Value

Your future

Employment prospects for students remain strong in the areas of business data analytics, management consultancy, multinational organisations and government agencies. Recent graduates from similar courses at the University, have gone on to work for leading FTSE-100 companies, the Government, the media, industry and manufacturing.

Course info

Course length:

3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

Entry requirements:

BBB/DDM/120

“Managers make numerous decisions every day. Many of them are difficult to make due to uncertain data and imperfect information. Business analysts have the needed skills to clear things up and help managers gain improved insight about business operations and make better, fact-based decisions.”

Leader for Business Data Analytics