Business Analytics, BBA at Pace University

There is an exploding need for professionals in every field who can analyze and manage data to make effective business decisions. With technical skills that are in demand in every industry, a degree in business analytics from Pace can enable you to look forward to job growth, mobility, and ongoing paths for advancing your knowledge and career.

• One of the few Business Analytics programs in the New York area offered to undergraduate students, the BBA in Business Analytics gives a solid, interdisciplinary grounding in data analysis, information technology, and quantitative modeling.
• The degree gives the technical edge for a satisfying analytical career in data analytics, financial engineering, risk management, market research, and management consulting.
• The Quantitative Business Analysis (QBA) major provides mathematically talented students with cutting-edge, hands-on training in analytical tools and business decision modeling that are in high demand by employers today.
• The interdisciplinary QBA major consists of courses in data analysis, information technology, quantitative modeling, and mathematics, providing a foundation for analytical careers such as financial engineering, risk management, actuarial science, market research, and management consulting.
• Students are required to take 8 credits in additional mathematics courses in calculus and statistics which increases the University Core requirement from 53 to 61 credits. An important part of the QBA major is the career concentration in a business functional area such as finance or marketing. This offers students sufficient flexibility to build a minor or a second major.

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Your Lubin BBA in Business Analytics will give you the skills and knowledge for a satisfying career in data analytics, financial engineering, risk management, market research, management consulting, and more. Employment of operations research analysts is projected to grow 25 percent from 2019–2029 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, much faster than the average for all occupations, giving you plentiful career opportunities. 

Our BBA in Business Analytics offers training in the cutting-edge tools and analytical techniques that are in demand. The curriculum includes analysis and modeling techniques that cover the whole spectrum of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, ad hoc reports, data visualization to regression, data mining, and optimization. Students will acquire in-demand software skills and learn to solve real-world business problems using tools such as R, Python, SQL, Excel, RapidMiner, and Tableau.

CAREER OPTIONS

• Business Analyst
• Data Analyst
• Financial Analyst
• Management Consultant
• Market Research Analyst
• Operations Analyst
• Operations Research Analyst