Graduate Certificate in Business Intelligence
Program Overview
The Data Analytics certificate program equips students with the skills to create a data-driven culture in organizations. The program covers business intelligence functions, data mining processes, and predictive analytics. Students gain practical experience in database management systems and apply advanced techniques to optimize, forecast, and discover business insights from data. The completion of this certificate allows students to enhance their value in companies with vast data assets, driving business efficiency and productivity.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Students will learn how to enable, support, and create a data-driven culture in an organization. Content will cover common functions, processes, and methods of business intelligence such as: reporting, data and text mining processes and related methodologies like CRISP-DM and SEMMA; complex event processing; performance management; and predictive and prescriptive analytics. Students gain hands-on experience designing, implementing, manipulating, and managing databases through a rigorous foundation in relational database management systems. The Certificate combines business intelligence with applied data mining and analytics to optimize, forecast, detect, predict, classify and discover new ways of using data to make a business more productive and efficient. Completion of the certificate allows students to bring value to companies that have vast quantities of both structured and unstructured data that requires identification, analysis, and transformation into useful data for business optimization and forecasting.
Outline:
- Course List:
- CIS 570 Business Intelligence
- CIS 575 Applied Data Mining and Analytics in Business
- CIS 576 Business Data Visualization
- CIS 655 Business Database Systems
- Program Total Credits: 9
- Select three courses from the following: 9
- Note: This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.
Other:
- Effective Fall 2019
- Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
