Program Details

The 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 MBA+MSA 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:

• BUAD 702 – Career & Professional Development
• SCMT 614 – Operations Management
• ANLY 608 – Regression
• ANLY 615 – Data Wrangling Tools & Techniques
• SCMT 610 – Business Analytics
• FINC 612 – Corporate Finance
• ACCT 610 – Understanding & Analyzing Financial Statements
• BUAD 620 – Business Communication
• MKTG 625 – Marketing Analytics
• ANLY 605 – Tableau/R Programming
• BUAD 684 – Professional Internship
• ISTM 660 – Predictive Analytics
• MGMT 614 – Managing Talent in Organizations
• ANLY 626 – Time Series, Machine Learning, Visualization
• MGMT 611 – Economic Decision Making in Business
• BUAD 679 – Leadership Development
• BUAD 689 – Special Topics in Contemporary Business
• MGMT 618 – Strategic Management & Leadership
• BUAD 693 – Professional Study (Capstone)
• ANLY 610 – Data/Optimization Models
• Electives

MBA+MSA 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 MBA+MSA program encourages students to continually refine their leadership skills through 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. 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.