Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics is designed to prepare individuals who can gather and analyze a variety of business data to enable data-driven decision making leading to optimized productivity, waste elimination, among other organizational goals.

This fully online program allows for people to work on their education at their own pace and credits can be applied to the full MBA program. Spring Hill College has been named a College of Distinction for their Division of Business and their dedicated faculty and innovative programs.

Delivery:

Online

Credits:

12 Credits

Time To Degree:

1-2 Semesters

Cost Per Credit:

$555

Business Analytics Curriculum 

BAN 571. Introduction to Management Science (3) An introduction to a broad range of topics in management science, namely: decision theory, linear programming, nonlinear and dynamic programming, transportation and assignment models, network models (PERT-CPM), Markov chains, game theory, inventory models, queuing theory, and simulation models. Prerequisite: BAN 570. 

BAN 572. Introduction to Business Analytics (3) The course provides coverage over the full range of business-analytics—descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. It includes step-by-step instructions to help students learn how to use Excel and Excel add-ons such as XL Miner for data mining and the Analytic Solver Platform for optimization and simulation. Prerequisite: BAN 570. 

BAN 573. Advanced Business Analytics (3) The course provides a strong foundation for extensive data analysis, spreadsheet use, and modeling in two other statistical software, R and Python. Students can learn several analytical methods useful in real-life business-decision making. Prerequisite: BAN 570.

Why SHC?

At Spring Hill College, we’re making our mark – With our small class sizes and affordable tuition, Spring Hill College is uniquely qualified to provide a high quality education to our students. Our Jesuit, Catholic college education is renowned as a well-rounded higher education approach, with an emphasis on empowering students with a passion for knowledge and personal growth. With our recent tuition cut, Spring Hill College is now one of the most affordable private colleges in the country.

We’re curious and inspired – Forbes Magazine has ranked Spring Hill College as one of the top ten best colleges for return on investment (ROI). In our class of 2019, 99.5% of graduates attained placement six months after graduation through employment, graduate/professional school, internship or service.

We’re doers – Our students contribute 24,000 hours on average to the local community through the Foley Center each year. 100% of the 2020 graduates that applied to medical school were accepted. Spring Hill College has a 100% certification rate and a 92% placement rate with our Education program over the last five years.

Faculty

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  • Sam Khoury

    Associate Professor

  • Anindya Biswas

    Professor, Finance & Economics

  • John Eads

    Instructor

  • Stephanie Gapud

    Assistant Professor

  • James Larriviere

    Professor of Economics and Finance; Chair of the Division of Business

  • Nicole Larriviere

    Assistant Professor & Internship Coordinator

  • Theresa McGonagle Crider

    Assistant Professor

  • Nicholas Purcell

    Adjunct

  • Kim Roberts

    Adjunct Lecturer

  • Andrew Sharp

    Professor Emiritus

  • Stacy Wellborn

    Instructor

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