Business Analytics
Bachelor of Science Degree
The Bachelor of Science degree in Business Analytics is designed to prepare students for jobs that require data analysis skills, data visualization, and presentation skills that are essential to decision making in organizations.
The explosive growth of technologies and applications that collect data and generate information is changing the business landscape. Current and new technologies and social media provide abundant information (i.e., big data) to businesses and organizations. Consequently, today’s challenge is to extract useful information from big data (data mining); to interpret that information (descriptive analytics), to predict the future (predictive analytics), and to make decisions that would help organizations to achieve their goals (prescriptive analytics).
The Business Analytics program will teach students the necessary skills to work with large data sets and perform data mining tasks to enable evidence-based decision making. Graduates from the BS in Business Analytics will have powerful analytical skills combined with a strong business background. Therefore, graduates from the program will succeed in the changing business environment and will have the foundation necessary to pursue advanced degrees in the field as well.
Typical Employment Opportunities
Management Analyst
Market Research Analyst
Sports Statistical Analyst
Finance Analyst
Computer Systems Analyst
Business Analytics (BS) Program Outcomes:
- Graduates will demonstrate strong core discipline knowledge in accounting, finance, legal environment of business, management, marketing, and operations management.
- Graduates will evaluate ethics and social responsibility issues.
- Graduates will analyze business situations and offer reasoned, actionable suggestions leading to problem resolution.
- Graduates will demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills supported by current technology.
- Graduates will evaluate the impact of the political, cultural and legal context surrounding global business operations and their effect on local business operations.
- Graduates will summarize and interpret each step in the analytics process and apply appropriate analytics software and tools (data collection, data mining, descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics).
Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
Business
Dr. Nanda Viswanathan
School of Business, Room 329
934-420-2015
business@farmingdale.edu
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
| Liberal Arts and Sciences | ( 61 credits ) |
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| EGL 101 Composition I: College Writing (GE) | 3 |
| EGL 102 Composition II: Writing About Literature | 3 |
| MTH 116 College Algebra (GE) | 3 |
| ECO 156 Principles of Economics (Macro) (GE) | 3 |
| ECO 157 Principles of Economics (Microeconomics) | 3 |
| Humanities elective (GE) | 3 |
| Foreign Language elective (GE) | 3 |
| Math or Natural Science elective | 4 |
| Natural Science elective (GE) | 3 |
| American/Other World/Western Civilization (GE) | 3 |
| Arts elective (GE) | 3 |
| BUS 141 Contemporary Business Communication (GE) | 3 |
| EGL 310 Technical Writing | 3 |
| Arts and Science Electives | 15 |
| Arts and Science Electives Upper Level | 6 |
| Required: Business Analytics | ( 48 credits ) |
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| BUS 101 Accounting I | 3 |
| BUS 102 Accounting II | 3 |
| BUS 109 Management Theories and Practices | 3 |
| BUS 131 Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 240: Business Statistics OR | |
| MTH 110 Statistics | 3 |
| BUS 201 Corporate Finance | 3 |
| BUS 345 Introduction to Business Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 385 Business Data Management | 3 |
| BUS 300 Operations Management | 3 |
| BUS 340 Advanced Business Statistics OR | |
| ECO 380 Econometrics | 3 |
| BUS 345 Foundations of Business Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 409 Strategic Management | 3 |
| BUS 440W Visual Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 445 Advanced Business Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 448 Business Analytics Project | 3 |
| Technical Elective | 3 |
| Technical Elective (300 level or higher) | 3 |
| Free Elective | ( 3 credits ) |
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| Free Elective (300 level or higher) | ( 9 credits ) |
| Total Credits | 121 |
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Curriculum Summary
Degree Type: BS
Total Required Credits: 121
Please refer to the General Education, Applied Learning, and Writing Intensive requirement
sections of the College Catalog and consult with your advisor to ensure that graduation
requirements are satisfied.
As a part of the SUNY General Education Framework, all first-time full time Freshman
at Farmingdale State College (FSC) beginning Fall 2023, are required to develop knowledge
and skills in Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ). Students will
be able to fulfill this requirement at FSC by taking a specially designated DEISJ
course that has been developed by faculty and approved by the DEISJ Review Board.
DEISJ-approved courses may meet other General Education Knowledge and Skills areas
and/or core competencies and thus be dually designated. DEISJ-approved courses may
also earn other special designations such as those for Applied Learning or Writing
Intensive.
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Technical Electives:
BUS 386 Marketing Analytics
BUS 314 Supply Chain Analytics
BUS 319 Marketing Research
BUS 387 Financial Analytics
MTH 246 Introduction to Financial Mathematics
MTH 346 Continuous Time Finance
BCS 260 Introduction to Database Systems
BCS 425 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
BUS 442 Human Resources Analytics