Carefully designed to keep you ahead of the trends, La Trobe's Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics will help you develop valuable new skills and allow you to develop advanced knowledge in business, programming, data engineering and artificial intelligence.
You'll learn:
Business analytics
Understand the unique needs of businesses and learn how to improve their processes.
Advanced digital skills
Learn how to harness and leverage the power of new digital technologies.
Statistics and data wrangling
Process complex data and use it for the advantage of businesses and organisations.
Advanced analytical tools
Develop high-level skills to manage big data using a range of analytics tools.
Professional communication
Learn how to connect and communicate with a wide range of professional audiences.
Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics intended learning outcomes
Critically review the organisational context of data and analytics for insights generation and decision-making
Analyse and appraise business objectives, ethics, internal and external stakeholders of analytics initiatives in industrial settings
Design, formulate and evaluate efficient data wrangling methodologies and effective data visualisations that enable insights generation and advanced analytics applications for organisational decisions
Conceptualise, create and interpret predictive analytics capabilities and techniques that leverage organisational data for actionable insights
Determine, corroborate and communicate people and project management functions for analytics initiatives
Design and create analytics techniques, tools and solutions to address decision challenges in organisational verticals
Assess, adapt and evaluate advanced technology platforms and cloud solutions with IT security management for data, analytics and artificial intelligence applications
Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics career opportunities
The need for analytics professionals is at an all-time high. Organisations are seeking to understand the massive amounts of data now at their disposal. After graduation, you could work across a wide range of sectors in roles such as:
Business analyst
Understand how businesses run and use data to solve problems and improve processes.
Market research analyst
Interpret market research and find data-driven solutions for businesses.
Business consultant
Develop business plans and help organisations to improve their operations.
Innovation consultant
Create new processes and encourage new ideas to be heard and embraced.