The Business Analytics Concentration is designed to provide students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations. Students will learn how to apply basic business analytics tools in a spreadsheet environment, and how to communicate with analytics professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better business decisions.
Expected outcomes of the BBA - Business Analytics concentration include:
- Students will be critical thinkers and demonstrate skills to select and apply appropriate models, tools, techniques, and frameworks to interpret data and make informed business decisions, recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets.
- Students will identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in data management, information security, business scenarios involving business decisions, and data modeling.
- Students will exhibit effective communication using audience appropriate terminology to relay complex data analysis and management decision techniques to stakeholders.
Curriculum
General Education Requirements (I-VII):
I. LMU Specific Courses
II. Communication
III. Ethics, Fine Arts, History, or Humanities
IV. Behavioral/Social Sciences
V. History
VI. Mathematics
(see Mathematics Placement)
VII. Natural Sciences/Physical Sciences
*LMU requires all first-time freshmen students with less than 15 credits of college credit to complete UACT 100. This credit does not include AP, CLEP, or Dual-enrollment credit.
BBA Core
Business Analytics Concentration
Additional Elective Requirements
*For the baccalaureate degree, students must complete a minimum of 36 semester credit hours of 300/400-level courses.