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On-Campus MS in Business Analytics
Every Organization Uses Analytics
Enhance your career opportunities by developing your data manipulation, visualization, and modeling skills with the MS in Business Analytics (MSBA). The MSBA is offered as a 1-year program on campus in Amherst or Newton. Both on-campus options have achieved classification as a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) program.
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Specialized, 1-Year Training
The MS in Business Analytics delivers the specialized business analytics expertise needed to succeed in any organization. MSBA students choose between two tracks—Business Foundations or Data Analytics—depending on career goals and prior business experience. Students can choose to further deepen their knowledge of data analytics by undertaking the optional concentration in Advanced Analytics. The MSBA program makes you a highly sought-after candidate for a career in any industry or organization.
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Innovative Business Analytics Curriculum
Data is everywhere, and every organization needs to apply data analytics. Whether you are new to analytics or experienced, have a business background or are a novice, our innovative curriculum will prepare you for a career in business analytics. Coursework includes Business Intelligence, Application Development with Python, Data Mining, Data Science for Business, Data Management for Business Leaders, etc.
Change Your Future
The Isenberg MSBA program can be completed in as little as one year, and will give you the analytical and core business skills to change the trajectory of your future. In 2020, an estimated 2.7 million jobs required business analytics skills. If working with data, industry professionals, and other business analysts to shape and improve your company’s future appeals to you, you’re on the right track with the Isenberg MSBA.
Optional Practical Training and Curricular Practical Training
The MSBA degree offered on the Amherst campus is ideal for international students. The STEM OPT (Optional Practical Training) classification allows students to extend their time in the U.S. to gain practical work experience, and the CPT (Curricular Practical Training) requirements allow them to accept paid internships. Our MSBA STEM degree offers students highly sought-after technical expertise.
Prepare for Your Business Analytics Career
Prepare for Your Business Analytics Career
The Isenberg Office of Career Success offers the career and professional development support you need for an analytics career. Work with a career coach and visit the IConnect portal for job postings, career events, and a suite of resources and tools in one central location to help you prepare for your career search.
Campus Locations
Campus Locations
Amherst
The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst provides an ideal collaborative environment for students. The recent construction of the Business Innovation Hub has nearly doubled the size of the school, creating spaces for experiential learning, executive-in-residence programs, and networking events. New technology-enabled classrooms support distance learning and connections with business partners in Boston and beyond, and multiple analytics labs provide hands-on learning opportunities.
International and domestic students are eligible to take courses in Amherst. Start in the spring or fall. Start your degree online in the summer and join a cohort and study on campus in the fall.
Newton
UMass Amherst’s Mount Ida Campus in Newton offers students an intimate campus experience just 10 miles outside of downtown Boston. In addition to all the services UMass Amherst offers—including an onsite fitness center, award-winning dining services and the Chase Career Center—there is also the option to apply for on-campus housing. Free parking and free transportation to the MBTA green line provide easy access to Boston.
The proximity to Boston companies in such industries as life sciences, sports tech and business consulting makes professional development opportunities through the Isenberg network and internships easily accessible. If you start your degree online in the summer, you can choose to join a cohort and study on campus in the fall.
Revolutionary Flexibility
Revolutionary Flexibility
This Isenberg program participates in the UMass Flex initiative, providing students with flexible access to courses offered at UMass Amherst.
MBA/MSBA Dual Degree Option
MBA/MSBA Dual Degree Option
Our On-Campus MBA programs offer several dual degrees to consider, including an MBA/MSBA option. This immersive residential program offered in Amherst builds a close-knit community; provides individualized career support; and enables you to strategize and lead in a data-centric world.
4+1 Master's Degrees
4+1 Master's Degrees
Undergraduate students at UMass Amherst and other colleges in the Five College Consortium can pursue a 4+1 option, completing their undergraduate degree and their master's degree in 5 years. Isenberg's Master of Finance, Master of Science in Accounting, and Master of Science in Business Analytics all offer this option.
For UMass Amherst students, the 4+1 option can also be accelerated, allowing students to complete both their undergraduate and master's degrees in fewer than 5 years.
Interested students should apply to a master's degree program in their junior year or early in their senior year.
$81,000
Average starting salary
Ranked #6
U.S. News & World Report ranked our Online MSBA program #6 in 2024
High Demand Skills
Curriculum delivers analytic, programming, visualization and data mining tools
Any program that Isenberg offers will give you access to a world of resources: great faculty members with industry experience, hands-on experience in your courses, the Chase Career Center, and endless networking opportunities. Choosing to get a business degree from Isenberg is a no-brainer.
Accolades
Online MS in Business Analytics
#6 Overall
#6 Overall
U.S. News & World Report, 2024
MSBA Faculty
MSBA Faculty
Carey Baldwin
Lecturer
Jeffrey Clark
Lecturer, David Gaunt Faculty Fellow in Real Estate; M.Fin. Academic Program Director
Robert Feingold
Lecturer
Nora Junaid
Lecturer
Ying Liu
Assistant Professor
Catherine West Lowry
Senior Lecturer II
E. Nicole Melton
Department Chair & Professor
David Sands
Adjunct Lecturer, Affiliated Expert
Bruce D. Weinberg
Professor
Kathy Zilch
Lecturer
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- Review the program specific admissions requirements.
- Click Apply Now to go to the University's Graduate School site where you can find a link to the secure online application.
- First-time users will need to create an account to start a new application. Note: You can submit your application before you have all your materials ready, simply save and resume your application as you gather required materials.
- After submitting, track your application at the Graduate School Status of Application page.