Program Details

The combined Full-Time MBA + MS Analytics program bridges data science and business to help leaders understand how to make better business decisions. This intensive program offers a combination of in-person and live-stream classes, as well as hands-on practice in managing challenges, time, and resources. Our intimate cohorts allow students to make meaningful connections with peers, faculty, career coaches, and program leadership. You will emerge from our program with cutting-edge professional knowledge and the ability to immediately assume a leadership role.

The Full-Time MBA + MS Analytics program’s coursework offers a blend of statistics and business courses designed to teach students how to lead organizations with a data-driven mindset. In addition to cutting-edge skills, the program offers leadership, management, and business communication coursework – a powerful combination.

Course List:

• Financial Accounting
• Regression
• Business Analytics
• Finance for the Professional I
• Operations Management
• Business Communications
• Leading People in Organizations
• International Business Policy
• Management Accounting and Control
• Finance for the Professional II
• Business Communications
• Marketing Analytics
• Fundamentals of Business Programming OR Accounting for Financial Reporting
• Individual Leadership Development
• Time Series, Machine Learning, Viz
• Predictive Analytics
• Data Wrangling Tools and Techniques
• Microfoundations of Business Behavior
• Data Management & Visualization
• Data Optimization Models
• Corporate Strategy and the Political Environment of Business
• Professional Study (Capstone)

Electives:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Data Analytics
• Supply Chain Management
• Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytics for Financial Reporting OR Fundamentals of Business Programming

Full-Time MBA + MS Analytics students apply the knowledge and skills they’ve learned in the classroom to help an actual client during the Business Consulting Project. This three-hour credit course is scheduled during the student’s final semester.

Students work in teams to help solve real-world business problems for clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, small start-up businesses, and non-profit organizations. These consulting projects help students increase their work experience prior to graduation, expand their professional network and enhance their long-term career possibilities. Examples of past consulting projects include:

• Creating financial projections for entry into a new market segment
• Developing the marketing plan for a new product
• Assessing the impact of environmental regulations on a business
• Identifying opportunities to increase and measure customer retention
• Positioning the company’s brand in an emerging market
• Identifying opportunities to reduce costs by improving supply chain management
• Analyzing options for short and long-term incentive programs
• Evaluating the cost and risk mitigation of several hedging instruments

Experience Overview

The Full-Time MBA + MS Analytics program encourages students to continually refine their leadership skills through the Mays Business School’s Leadership Initiative.

Leadership Initiative

Mays Business School’s Leadership Initiative prepares students to lead with confidence. Our model offers a comprehensive approach that incorporates leadership education into the MBA experience. The key foci in this model are:

• Self-awareness and development: We believe that business leaders need to know themselves before they can lead others. Coursework on emotional intelligence and self-assessment tools such as StrengthsFinder and Birkman help students learn more about themselves, their skill sets and stress behaviors.
• Core business knowledge and skills: Business leaders need a strong foundation of core knowledge and skills in order to succeed. Full-Time MBA students learn leadership principles and problem-solving skills through case studies that are woven throughout the core curriculum.
• Leadership strategies: Our curriculum integrates lessons on teamwork, communication and problem-solving into the core curriculum. Students become skilled leaders who are able to effectively influence, motivate, guide and support others when they return to the workplace.
• Real world practice: Numerous opportunities allow students to test and improve their skills as leaders in scenarios to mirror what they will face in the real world. A summer internship and case competitions provide students with additional chances to practice their leadership skills.

Courseload for the 22-month Full-Time MBA + MS Analytics Program

Year 1 – Fall Semester (17 Credit Hours)

• Financial Accounting
• Regression
• Business Analytics
• Finance for the Professional I
• Operations Management
• Business Communications

Year 1 – Spring Semester (16 Credit Hours + 3 Credit Hours Specialization)

• Leading People in Organizations
• International Business Policy
• Management Accounting and Control
• Finance for the Professional II
• Business Communications
• Marketing Analytics
• Fundamentals of Business Programming OR Accounting for Financial Reporting

Summer Internship
The summer internship is your opportunity to put your new MBA+MSA knowledge to work through real-world experience. Our students intern at companies in many different industries and geographic locations. The Career Management Center team works closely with our students to help them identify, apply, and interview for the internships that fit their unique goals and skillset.

Year 2 – Fall Semester (13 Credit Hours)

• Individual Leadership Development
• Time Series, Machine Learning, Viz
• Predictive Analytics
• Data Wrangling Tools and Techniques
• Microfoundations of Business Behavior

Year 2 – Spring Semester (12 Credit Hours)

• Data Management & Visualization
• Data Optimization Models
• Corporate Strategy and the Political Environment of Business
• Professional Study (Capstone)

Electives: (Options based on your chosen Full-Time MBA Track)

• Accounting
• Finance
• Data Analytics
• Supply Chain Management
• Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytics for Financial Reporting OR Fundamentals of Business Programming