Business Analytics – Chicago (MSBA)
Highlights: MSBA Experience
Use state-of-the-art analytics tools.
You'll employ the latest in analytics technology to visualize data, build sophisticated models, and interpret the results.
Gain experience with real-world analytics.
The program culminates with a hands-on capstone project where you and your team will partner with a corporate sponsor on a real-world analytics project where you'll have the opportunity to put your knowledge and skills to work.
Begin in January, finish in December.
MSBA classes meet in downtown Chicago on alternating weekends (8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday) for a year. Augmented with three immersions at Notre Dame, the MSBA will be completed in 12 months while you maintain your full-time employment.
Career Development
After the undergrad experience, each working professional’s track record and goals are unique. Our commitment is to work with you individually to acquire the skills and confidence necessary to master all current and future career transitions. We provide a full range of services that allow you to customize your personal career development plans for a fulfilling and rewarding career.
Professional coaches from Mendoza’s Career Development staff provide a combination of group and individual learning experiences. Conveniently scheduled workshops provide content tailored to segments of students with similar career goals and needs. Personalized Career Mastery Coaching is available as a one-on-one coaching immersion that equips you to navigate any future career decision with clarity, confidence, and conviction.
Coaches guide you to develop your own hard-hitting, targeted, and unique message for the roles you are ideally suited for with our proprietary Career Mastery curriculum of online video-supported content and tools.
With a Notre Dame degree, your business family will grow far beyond campus. You will become part of one of the most extensive and engaged alumni networks in the world, joining more than 144,000 active Notre Dame graduates — all of whom look out for one another. We will show you the best ways to identify and connect with those sharing mutual interests.
Leaders from this select list of companies, and many others, have gained a Notre Dame MSBA degree to achieve their own legendary advantage:
Select Companies for MSBA Graduates
- Accenture
- Aon Hewitt
- BMO Bank
- Deloitte Consulting
- E&Y
- Flywheel Digital
- GE
- IBM
- JP Morgan Chase
- McDonald’s Corporation
- Microsoft
- Mozilla
- Salesforce
- Sandia National Laboratories
- SAP
- Stryker
- Walgreens
- Whole Foods Markets
More than 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make an effective decision are needed in the U.S. alone, according to McKinsey.
What You’ll Learn: MSBA Course of Study
The program comprises 30 credit hours over a calendar year that provide a master’s-level understanding of business analytics. It positions you to use data to inform complex business decisions.
The curriculum is delivered through a series of six modules, including a 2-credit-hour intensive module at Notre Dame and an analytics capstone project to complete the MSBA. In this program, you will learn to apply analytics techniques for Big Data including:
- Data mining
- Data storage and manipulation
- Data visualization
- Statistics
- Modeling
- Optimization
- Simulation
Our Community
Alumnus "I love that it’s a cohort and we’re developing together. I’ve been really impressed with my classmates here."
Alumna "When you look back and can see what you’ve learned in class applied to the real world and all of the relationships you’ve built in class, it’s really rewarding."
Academic Director "Our graduates help businesses apply analytic principles and techniques in an ethical manner to unlock the value hidden in their data, leading to improved decision-making."