Business Analytics Minor

for the undergraduate minor in Business Analytics


The Business Analytics Minor is designed to provide business undergraduate students with a basic understanding of key business analytics concepts, skills, and tools. This Minor will be useful for students pursuing various business majors, who are seeking to add analytics and data-driven expertise that will be useful in their careers. 

for the undergraduate minor in Business Analytics


 The Business Analytics Minor requires students to complete six courses for 18 credit hours. Five courses (15 credit hours) are required and one elective course will be chosen from a list of options for the sixth course (3 hours) for a total of 18 credit hours.   

Required Courses
BADM 352Database Design and Management3
BADM 356Data Science and Analytics3
BADM 358Big Data Platforms3
BADM 373Quantitative Foundations for Business Analytics3
BADM 374Management Decision Models3
Total Required Hours15
Elective Courses
Select any one (1) course
BADM 336Supply Chain Modeling & Analytics3
BADM 351Social Media Strategy3
BADM 361Marketing Analytics3
BADM 362Introduction to Consumer Analytics3
BADM 379Business Process Improvement3
BADM 453Business Intelligence3
ACCY 302Decision Making for Atg3
FIN 464Applied Financial Analysis3
Total Elective Hours3
Minimum Total Hours18

for the undergraduate minor in Business Analytics


The Business Analytics program will help students in:

  1. Understanding of the business core, including statistics and data management, creating ability to align different functional contexts with business analytics
  2. Gaining proficiency in technical aspects of business analytics, including programing and communicating with data.
  3. Developing analytical and critical thinking, ability to synthesize data and information related to business processes and problems.
  4. Navigating the complexities of non-conscious biases in data collection and analysis, and ethics of using sources and techniques, such as data privacy and artificial intelligence.
  5. Applying business analytics concepts focused one or more business functions, such as marketing, finance, supply chain, accounting, etc. 
 

for the undergraduate minor in Business Analytics


Gies College of Business

Undergraduate Programs
Email the Dept. of Business Administration, ba@business.illinois.edu, or the Academic Director, Prof. Ram Subramanyam, rsubrama@illinois.edu.