The Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) degree program at SMU Cox provides students with the expertise and specialized skills employers in business intelligence, IT, data mining, marketing, operations and consulting fields are demanding now. In the past, companies have focused on reporting, data management and business intelligence. Business Analytics goes beyond the traditional data, BI and reporting environments and focuses on how to better analyze your business using information to gain insight to the business. It extends data management and business intelligence (data warehousing) to enable the management of big data, and combines it with data analytics and business information to analyze consumer behavior, web site data, marketing data and even to perform predictive analytics. The broad and intensive curriculum across a range of management disciplines and functions explores the latest methods of translating data into relevant information for decision-makers. In just one year, the MSBA program provides students with a business analytics degree and prepares students to launch successful careers in the burgeoning field of business analytics from business analysts, data analysts, marketing analysts, financial analysts, data base and data warehouse architects to data scientists.