Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics Online

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Program Overview

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$19,350* Total Tuition
As few as 16 months Program Duration
45 Credit Hours

Become a data-savvy business leader or Data Analyst at any company with the online Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics. Learn to analyze business processes and make changes for improvement using statistical methods.

This process-focused, 100 percent online program will train you to analyze data sets and use analytical software in order to help your company make better business decisions. Utilize statistical analysis tools and concepts from Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to build continuous improvement and translate data into actionable insights.

Our supportive and highly connected faculty share expertise with real-world relevance. You can earn this innovative MBA online in as few as 16 months while you continue working and apply what you learn right away.

An online MBA that teaches skills you can apply anywhere, anytime

"Business analytics is something that can be used anywhere. I'm already putting the ideas that I'm learning in the program directly to work in my professional life."

- Jordan Ely, SOU online MBA student

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In the business analytics online program, you will:

  • participate in hands-on exercises and projects to illustrate and promote further understanding of SQL querying, data presentation, and data visualization technique,
  • develop advanced Excel skills in designing and developing decision models in business analysis, and
  • explore geographic information systems (GIS) as an emerging technology/science and how it can be used to improve business decision-making

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$19,350* Total Tuition
As few as 16 months Program Duration
45 Credit Hours
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Tuition

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The SOU Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics online program features the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition whether you reside in Oregon or outside the state.

Tuition breakdown:

$19,350* Total Tuition
$430 Per Credit Hour
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Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics Program Tuition and Fees

The following is the tuition breakdown for the MBA Business Analytics degree program.

Program Per Credit Hour Per 3 Credit Hours Per 4 Credit Hours Per Program
MBA Business Analytics $430 $1,290 $1,720 $19,350*

Note: SOU credit hours are quarter hours. 45 SOU hours = 30 semester credit hours.

Fees: There is a $60 application fee, an $85 graduation fee, and a $65 course fee for the ETS Major Field Test in MBA 514. Proctoring fees, if required, are not included.

*Tuition and fees are subject to change.

Tuition breakdown:

$19,350* Total Tuition
$430 Per Credit Hour

Calendar

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The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics online program is convenient and accessible for working professionals. All courses are seven weeks in length, with multiple start dates each year. View the calendar to see upcoming starts and related due dates.

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12/23/24 Apply Date
1/6/25 Class Starts

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition Deadline
Fall9/30/249/16/249/25/2410/4/24
Winter1/6/2512/23/241/2/251/10/25
Spring3/31/253/17/253/26/254/4/25
Summer 16/16/256/2/256/11/256/20/25
Summer 28/4/257/21/257/30/258/8/25

Now enrolling:

12/23/24 Apply Date
1/6/25 Class Starts

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Admissions

Review our online business analytics admission requirements

The Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics online admission process is streamlined to help you get started right away. Requirements for full admission include:

Admission Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
  • 2.75 GPA with three years relevant experience or 3.0 GPA
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MBA with a Concentration in Business Analytics Online Admission Requirements

  • Applicants with a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and transcripts verifying a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale are granted full admission status into the MBA with a Concentration in Business Analytics online degree program.
    • Applicants with a minimum GPA of 2.75 qualify for full admission status by verifying three or more years of relevant work experience within the application.
    • Provisional admission status is available for applicants with an undergraduate GPA lower than 2.75 who have three years of relevant work experience. Students admitted on a provisional basis must earn a B or better in courses taken during their first term in order to continue in the program.
  • Applicants must submit transcripts from all previous educational institutions attended.
  • International student applicants interested in enrolling in the SOU online Master of Business Administration program should contact the Office of International Programs for information related to international admissions and visa restrictions. Contact the Office of International Programs by emailing [email protected].

Southern Oregon University considers you an international student if you are NOT a:

  • U.S. citizen or national;
  • U.S. permanent resident or other eligible noncitizen.

Graduate Admission Requirements for International Students:

  • Applicants must have a bachelor's degree equivalent to a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree from a recognized university in that country.
  • Transcripts from all colleges and universities attended; documents must be official and include an English translation. Applicants are required to have documents mailed to SOU in a sealed envelope from the school, which has not been opened.
    • SOU will not accept scans, faxes, photocopies, or already opened documents.
  • TOEFL or IELTS score
    • If English is not your native language, you will need to submit a TOEFL or IELTS score.
  • You do not need to submit a score if you earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. college/university or completed your education in a native English-speaking country.

If you need to submit official documents by mail, send them to:

SOU Admissions Department
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520

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Courses

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In order to earn the Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Analytics online, you must complete 13 courses (45 credit hours), covering 33 credit hours of core courses (including a capstone course) and 12 credit hours of concentration courses.

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You must take the following courses.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students learn how to plan and implement effective marketing strategies through case analysis and research in strategic applications. Emphasizes best practices to successfully address marketing challenges faced by actual businesses.

Course learning objectives:

  • Write clear and concise summaries of topical information
  • Demonstrate knowledge of triple bottom line and corporate responsibility trends
  • Evaluate alternative marketing strategies and make recommendations for change based on research
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Students apply contemporary operations management techniques and tools to realistic business situations. Case studies and computer-based models are utilized as decision-making tools. MBA 514 must be taken during the final two terms. The MBA ETS Major Field Test will be administered via this course. The Field Test is part of the program's accreditation and assessment process. An $80 course fee will be assessed for this test.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the role of information systems (IS) in contemporary business organizations. Provides an overview of key information systems and technologies. Emphasizes the management behavior, knowledge, and skills necessary to participate in making decisions about information systems. Also introduces current trends and drivers, including emerging technologies that affect the present and future of information systems.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Explores the accounting function of an organization from a managerial perspective. Students gain an understanding of cost characteristics, cash flows, and reporting; the appropriate application of costs in decision-making; and the behavioral ramifications and interdependency of accounting within the organization as a whole.

Course learning objectives:

  • Correctly apply concepts and vocabulary of the cost environment
  • Organize accounting information properly for planning and control, decision-making, performance, evaluation, and reporting purposes
  • Employ management accounting techniques and concepts to enhance organizational strategies
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on the roles and techniques of research in retail, service, community, and industry settings. Research methods and procedures such as design, data collection, analysis, and recommendations are applied to an actual organizational situation.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Explores fundamental concepts of microeconomics (market equilibrium, firm and consumer behavior, and industry structure and competition) as a means of understanding and analyzing business problems. Basic macroeconomic models are developed to help explain long-run trends and short-run fluctuations in key macroeconomic variables: GDP, inflation, interest rates, wage and profit rates, and budget deficits. Applies the basic principles of finance theory to decisions facing the corporate manager.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Acquaints students with fundamental legal concepts affecting organizations through case studies and guest speakers. Concepts are discussed within a general managerial framework with distinctions made for private, nonprofit, and governmental entities. Major topics covered include tort liability, contracts and legal agreements, intellectual property rights, administrative law, individual liability, and legal economics/ADR applications. Management law covered includes employment issues such as wrongful non-hiring and termination, discrimination, ADA (disabilities), sexual harassment, and similar issues. Introduces contemporary issues of ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) facing the business community.

Course learning objectives:

  • Develop understanding and appreciation of current ethical and legal concepts/issues in business/management
  • Effectively discuss the importance of ethics in the organizational decision-making process
  • Become familiar with business law concepts/issues and be able to develop a proactive and preventive organizational culture and strategy
  • Effectively express and support a socially responsible and ethical organizational structure
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores individual behavior, group behavior, and organizational systems. Topics covered (from theoretical and practical perspectives) include understanding people, motivation, group dynamics, communication, leadership, power, politics, conflict, diversity, culture, decision making, change, and organizational structure.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores essential financial theory and develops applications in the areas of valuation of assets, financing decisions, risk assessment, and short-term asset and liability management. Develops the abilities to compare and value uncertain cash flows; evaluate the costs and risks of financing from stocks, bonds, and entrepreneurial sources; and manage short-term capital.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The capstone course is intended to provide an experience that integrates the MBA coursework using intensive business cases and analysis. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all core courses. MBA 590 must be taken during the final two terms.
You must take the following courses.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Advanced course in management information systems with an emphasis on the use of business analytics to drive decisions and actions. Hands-on exercises and projects illustrate and promote further understanding of the topics. Includes SQL querying, data presentation, and data visualization techniques.

Course learning objectives:

  • Understand and apply data visualization best practices
  • Create Tableau data visualizations, including dashboards
  • Extract and summarize data from a relational database using the SQL SELECT command
  • Critique benefits and limits of descriptive and predictive analytics using readily available business data
  • Assess the design and utility of static and interactive dashboard displays
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Reviews the theory and practice of quality improvement, with an emphasis on modeling of business processes, development of decision support tools, and performance measurement.

Course learning objectives:

  • Apply common elements of contemporary quality management frameworks to describe problems and identify possible improvements
  • Implement management and analytic tools and techniques from the Six Sigma Body of Knowledge at an introductory level
  • Demonstrate hands-on skills using statistical software to summarize quality improvement data
  • Describe the interaction between the human side of change and analytic tools to achieve continual improvement
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an emerging technology/science over the last three decades and how this technology can and has been used to improve business decision making. Primarily the course examines the marrying of geographic information to data and thus how that substantially changes and improves the ability to compile evidence, construct arguments and therefore improve decision making. While business is the primary focus, the course helps students understand how GIS has had and is having a profound impact in government and nonprofits as well.

Course learning objectives:

  • Gain ability for marrying geographic information to data to identify opportunities, analyze data, explore issues, problem solve, and evaluate situations in a geographic and business context
  • Develop knowledge of GIS and how it has had a profound impact in business, government, and nonprofits
  • Explore mapped data and manage geodatabases
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