Business Analytics Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The business analytics post-baccalaureate certificate (PBC) will provide skills in analyzing data as well as provide competency in interpretation and presentation of data to facilitate better business decisions. The PBC curriculum will teach students how to conduct trends analysis using both large, multi-disciplinary data sets and visualizations across various industry sectors, including financial, manufacturing, retail, technology, healthcare, marketing, government, and more.

Coursework includes four courses (12 credit hours) which balance theoretical concepts with applied exercises, cases, and projects. Core concepts of business analytics require knowledge of statistics, databases/data retrieval, programming, and data visualization.

Students must remain in good standing to be retained in the program (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0).