Naveen Jindal School of Management
Business Analytics (BS)
Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics
Degree Requirements (120 semester credit hours)1
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Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Stanimir Markov, Amit Mehra, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Cuili Qian, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Gil Sadka, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Riki Takeuchi, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Michael Hasler, Bin Hu, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Maria Loumioti, Lívia Markóczy, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Anyan Qi, Young U. Ryu, Serdar Simsek, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Rafael Copat, Soraya Fatehi, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Jason Kautz, Tongil Kim, Sheen Levine, Christopher Mace, Samir Mamadehussene, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Jedson Pinto, Ignacio Rios Uribe, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Simon Siegenthaler, Kirti Sinha, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Hongchang Wang, Pingle Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang
Professor Emeritus: John J. Wiorkowski
Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk, David J. Springate
Visiting Professor: Emily Choi
Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John F. McCracken, Diane S. McNulty, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield
Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Christina (Krysta) Betanzos, Moran Blueshtein, Jerome Gafford, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Kristen Lawson, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Jason Parker, Nassim Sohaee
Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson
Associate Professors of Instruction: Vivek Arora, Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Hubert Zydorek
Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Rasoul Ramezani, Gaurav Shekhar
Professors of Practice: Gregory Ballew, Tiffany A. Bortz, Ranavir Bose, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah
Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen, Jackie Kimzey, David Parks, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton
Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi, Steven Haynes, Abu Naser Islam, Edward Meda, Paul Nichols, Timothy Stephens, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours2
Communication: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses (see advisor)
Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I3, 4, 5, 6
Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses5 (see advisor)
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses (see advisor)
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses (see advisor)
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses (see advisor)
Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
GOVT 2305 American National Government
GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses (see advisor)
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours7
Choose one of the following:
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems3, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses (see advisor)
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours7
Choose two of the following:
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II3, 4, 5
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems3, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses (see advisor)
II. Major Requirements: 69 semester credit hours
Students must meet all course prerequisites.
Major Preparatory Courses: 18 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting3
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law3
ITSS 3311 Introduction to Programming8
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I3, 4, 5, 6
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II3, 4, 5, 9
or OPRE 3340 Advanced Business Quantitative Methods9
OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis3,10
or MATH 2333 Matrices, Vectors, and Data3, 10
OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
Choose two of the following:7
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems3, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World3, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics3, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics3, 4
Major Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
BCOM 1300 Professional Communication10
or BCOM 3300 Business Communication10
BCOM 4300 Advanced Professional Communication
FIN 3320 Business Finance
IMS 3310 International Business
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
or OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management
A community engagement experience is required:
BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum11
Major Related Courses: 27 semester credit hours
BUAN 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business Analytics
or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business
ITSS 4300 Database Fundamentals
ITSS 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence
ITSS 4352 Introduction to Web Analytics
ITSS 4353 Business Analytics
ITSS 4354 Advanced Big Data Analytics
ITSS 4355 Data Visualization
ITSS 4380 Advanced Database Management
ITSS 4381 Object Oriented Programming with Python
A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required:
BUAN 4090 Business Analytics Internship
or BA 4090 Management Internship12
Guided Electives: 9 semester credit hours
The BS BUAN degree program gives students the opportunity to focus on a specific track to obtain in-depth knowledge in a specific business area. Students will choose 9 semester credit hours from one of the following tracks:
A. Marketing Analytics Track
MKT 4330 Digital and Internet Marketing
MKT 4331 Digital Prospecting
MKT 4334 Social Media Marketing
MKT 4337 Marketing Analytics
B. Operations and Supply Chain Management Track
OPRE 3320 Integrated Supply Chain Management
OPRE 4320 Integrated SCM Information Systems
OPRE 4330 Global Logistics and Inventory Management
OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 4357 Supply Chain Analytics
C. Finance and Risk Analytics Track
FIN 3370 Principles of Risk Management and Insurance
FIN 3390 Introduction to Financial Modeling
FIN 4338 Foundations of Risk Analytics and Applications
FIN 4345 Financial Information and Analysis
D. Information Technology Track
ITSS 4330 Systems Analysis and Design
ITSS 4340 Enterprise Resource Planning
ITSS 4344 CRM using Salesforce
ITSS 4356 Data Governance
ITSS 4360 Network and Information Security
E. Data Science Track
ITSS 4356 Data Governance
ITSS 4382 Applied Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
ITSS 4383 Advanced Applied Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
MECO 4352 Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
MECO 4370 Data Science Decision Making
All prerequisites must be met.
The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.
1. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
2. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
3. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
4. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
5. MATH 1325 is required for all JSOM undergraduate students. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417 for MATH 1325. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 for MATH 1326.
6. To make timely degree progress, students should complete MATH 1325 or its equivalent by the end of their first semester at UT Dallas. Students who will not meet this requirement should contact their academic advisor to discuss their degree timeline.
7. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core, major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.
8. Students who have completed CS 1436 with a C or better may replace ITSS 3311 with an additional BUAN upper-division or ITSS upper-division course (excluding ITSS 4301).
9. Students may substitute OPRE 3340, but MATH 1326 is recommended for efficiency. Students who complete OPRE 3340 instead of MATH 1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 will need an 090 Component Area Option Core course.
10. JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BCOM 1300 in their first semester. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BCOM 3300 in their first semester.
11. Students may fulfill the community engagement requirement with BA 4095, BPS 4396, ENTP 4340/IMS 4335, or MKT 4360. The zero semester credit hour course BA 4095 is recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy this requirement.
12. Students who are employed in full-time jobs may fulfill their internship requirement with their current employer as a special project with preapproval from their program director.