Business Analytics Minor

For information, contact the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, 3095 FSB, 513-529-4826.

The business analytics minor complements many majors (including all business majors) by providing the managerial, analytical, and technical skills needed to gather data in real-time, store and organize the data, analyze the data using quantitative methods, and use the resulting information to make decisions that will allow an organization to gain competitive advantage. Coursework includes fundamental information technology and statistical concepts, database management and data warehouses, regression analysis in business, optimization of business systems using management science models, analysis of large data sets using data mining and business intelligence techniques.

For details regarding admission to FSB minors and availability of coursework, please refer to the information at the beginning of this section (under Farmer School of Business "Minors").

Note: For Information Systems and Cybersecurity Management majors at least 9 credit hours beyond the business core must be courses not double counted toward the major.

Note: For Statistics majors at least 12 credit hours must be courses taught by Farmer School Faculty.

Program Requirements for the Business Analytics Minor

(15 semester hours)

Analytics Core Courses
ISA 345Database Systems and Data Warehousing3
ISA 391Applied Regression Analysis in Business3
or ECO 311 Examining Economic Data and Models
or STA 363 Introduction to Statistical Modeling
or STA 463 Regression Analysis
ISA 401Business Intelligence and Data Visualization3
Select two of the following - one must be an ISA course:6
Optimization in Business Analytics
Statistical Monitoring and Design of Experiments
Concepts in Business Programming
Managing Big Data
Business Forecasting
Topics in Business Analytics
Introduction to Data Mining in Business
Business Analytics Practicum
Advanced Empirical Methods
Statistical Programming
Total Credit Hours15