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Online MS in Business Analytics
Every Organization Uses Analytics
Change your career trajectory by developing data manipulation, visualization, and analytical decision-making skills with the MS in Business Analytics (MSBA). The 10-course, 31-credit MSBA program can be completed at your own pace through our flexible online learning platform.
Flexible and Convenient
The Isenberg’s Online MSBA program offers the flexibility you need to fit your life, while learning from industry-leading expert faculty and receiving the same core curriculum as your on-campus counterparts. As an Online MSBA student, you can work at your own pace, taking as few as three credits (one course) or up to four years to complete your degree. And, domestic students can start by taking a couple classes online in the summer before joining an on-campus cohort in Amherst or Newton in the fall.
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 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.
Build Your Connections
The Online MSBA is designed to help students reach their goals by building the business analytical skills that are in such high demand in today’s business world - without putting life on hold. Your Isenberg experience will help you build a strong, diverse network, including valuable opportunities to tap into Isenberg’s vast alumni network by attending alumni events in Boston, New York and Amherst.
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.
Online MBA/MSBA Dual Degree Option
Online MBA/MSBA Dual Degree Option
The Isenberg MBA/MS dual degree program will give you a hands-on, real-world education, readying you to become a business leader with strong analytical skills.
$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
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.
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
Callout Blocks
State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)
UMass Amherst accepts students from all 50 states into online programs and classes. The University of Massachusetts Amherst operates distance education classes and programs for out-of-state students under the terms and provisions of the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA). California does not participate in the Agreement but allows all public institutions to offer distance education to its residents.
Revolutionary Flexibility
Revolutionary Flexibility
This Isenberg program participates in the UMass Flex initiative, providing students with flexible access to courses offered at UMass Amherst.
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Follow our step-by-step process to complete your online application.
- 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.