Naveen Jindal School of Management
Master of Science in Business Analytics
36 semester credit hours minimum
Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali, Indranil R. Bardhan, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Daniel A. Cohen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Theodore E. Day, Gregory G. Dess, David L. Ford Jr., Umit G. Gurun, Ernan E. Haruvy, Varghese S. Jacob, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Shun-Chen Niu, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, John J. Wiorkowski, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Pamela Foster Brady, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, David Cordell, Tevfik Dalgic, Michael Deegan, Kutsal Dogan, Howard Dover, Greg Durham, Forney Fleming III, Randall S. Guttery, Charles Hazzard, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Gerald (Jerry) Hoag, Marilyn Kaplan, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John F. McCracken, Dennis McCuistion, Diane S. McNulty, Radha Mookerjee, Joseph Picken, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, David Ritchey, Arthur Selender, Rajiv Shah, Kenneth Smith, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
Associate Professors: Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Xianjun Geng, J. Richard Harrison, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Lívia Markóczy, Syam Menon, Toyah Miller, Alp Muharremoglu, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Valery Polkovnichenko, Orlando C. Richard, Young U. Ryu, Gil Sadka, Jane Salk, Harpreet Singh, David J. Springate, Upender Subramanian, Kelsey D. Wei, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
Clinical Associate Professors: Sonia Leach, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Kelly Slaughter, James Szot, Mark Thouin, John McClain Watson
Assistant Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Emily Choi, Bernhard Ganglmair, Atanu Lahiri, Sheen Levine, Bin Li, Jun Li, Meng Li, Ningzhong Li, Xiaolin Li, Naim Bugra Ozel, Arzu Ozoguz, Anyan Qi, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Serdar Simsek, Gonca P. Soysal, Shaojie Tang, Christian Von-Drathen, Malcolm Wardlaw, Han (Victor) Xia, Steven Xiao, Shengqi Ye, Nir Yehuda, Jieying Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Xiaofei Zhao
Clinical Assistant Professors: Shawn Alborz, Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, John Gamino, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Kristen Lawson, Vance Lewis, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Dawn Owens, Parneet Pahwa, Anastasia V. Shcherbakova, Jeanne Sluder, Nassim Sohaee
Visiting Assistant Professor: Lale Guler
Visiting Clinical Professor: Kyle Edgington
Senior Lecturers: Arthur M. Agulnek, Semiramis Amirpour, Frank Anderson, Anindita Bardhan, Daniel Bochsler, Tiffany A. Bortz, Richard Bowen, Monica E. Brussolo, George DeCourcy, Eugene (Gene) Deluke, Alexander Edsel, Amal El-Ashmawi, Carol Flannery, Mary Beth Goodrich, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Jackie Kimzey, Chris Linsteadt, Michele Lockhart, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Prithi Narasimhan, Madison Pedigo, Matt Polze, James Richards, Debra Richardson, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, David Spivey, Luell (Lou) Thompson, Amy L. Troutman, Jeremy Vickers, Robert Wright, Kathy Zolton, Hubert Zydorek
Degree Requirements
The Master of Science in Business Analytics (MS BUAN) is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degree program (18-24 months) at the Naveen Jindal School of Management that provides students with a broad foundation in the business intelligence and analytics area. The program includes core courses and the analytics electives organized into different tracks such as decisions and operations analytics, financial analytics, healthcare analytics, IT for analytics, and marketing analytics.
Students must maintain a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) in both core courses and in aggregate courses to qualify for the MS degree.
Course Requirements
Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours from the following
BUAN 6312 Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
or ECON 6306 Applied Econometrics
BUAN 6320 Database Foundations
or MIS 6326 Data Management
BUAN 6324 Business Intelligence Software and Techniques
BUAN 6337 Marketing Predictive Analytics Using SAS
BUAN 6390 Analytics Practicum
BUAN 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
OPRE 6301 Quantitative Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Business
and
Choose one course from the following track-specific courses:
FIN 6301 Financial Management
HMGT 6320 The American Healthcare System
MIS 6308 Systems Analysis and Project Management
MKT 6301 Marketing Management
OPRE 6302 Operations Management
Analytics Electives: 12 semester credit hours
Students may choose four courses from one or more tracks in the following areas to obtain in-depth analytics knowledge.
Decisions and Operations Analytics Track
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Management
OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
Financial Analytics Track
FIN 6306 Quantitative Methods in Finance
FIN 6352 Financial Modeling
FIN 6360 Options and Futures Markets
FIN 6382 Numerical and Statistical Methods in Finance
Healthcare Analytics Track
HMGT 6323 Healthcare Informatics
HMGT 6325 Healthcare Operations Management
HMGT 6327 Electronic Health Records Applications
HMGT 6334 Healthcare Analytics
IT For Analytics Track
BUAN 6335 Organizing for Business Analytics: A Systems Approach
BUAN 6345 High Performance Analytics
BUAN 6346 Big Data Analytics
MIS 6309 Business Data Warehousing
MIS 6334 Advanced Business Intelligence with SAS
MIS 6344 Web Analytics
MIS 6373 Social Media and Business
MIS 6380 Data Visualization
Marketing Analytics Track
MKT 6309 Marketing Research
MKT 6323 Database Marketing
MKT 6338 Enterprise Systems and CRM or MKT 6340 Marketing Projects Lab*
MKT 6362 Marketing Models
Other analytics related courses can be approved on a case-by-case basis.
* Program Director approval required.