Programs
Analytics and Business Intelligence
Description
Analytics and business intelligence skills are in great demand today. This certificate
prepares students to acquire necessary skills in analytics and business intelligence
as needed in the marketplace. Graduate students who take four of the five required
courses, and earn a GPA of 3.0 or higher in these courses, will receive a will receive
a SAS approved Certificate in Analytics and Business Intelligence when they use a
SAS analytics package as part of some of these courses.
Read more about the Analytics and Business Intelligence Graduate Certificate.
Course Location/Delivery
The Certificate is offered at the Tampa campus.
Admission Requirements
Applicants must have a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
Application Process
To learn about the application process, and to access the application, please review our application process.
Tuition and Fees
Normal tuition and fees apply for on-campus courses.
Prerequisites
Student should meet the statistics and database prerequisites as outlined in the graduate catalog for the MS/MIS program:
- A course in database or significant work experience related to databases in order to take Advanced Database and Data Warehousing courses
- A course in statistics to take all the data mining and statistics classes
Requirements
12 credit hours. Choose four courses from the list below:
- ISM 6136 - Data Mining (3)
- ISM 6218 - Advanced Database Systems (3)
- ISM 6208 - Data Warehousing (3)
- ISM 6137 - Statistical Data Mining (3)
- ISM 6930 - Statistical Programming for Business Analytics (3)
- ISM 6930 - Big Data and E-Commerce (3)
- QMB 7566 - Applied Multivariate Statistical Methods (3) *(not available online)
Electives
n/a
Credit Toward Graduate Degree
Up to 12 hours of certificate course credits may be applied to a graduate degree with departmental approval.
Standardized Tests
International students must submit a TOEFL score when English is not the native language. A minimum score of 550 on the paper-based test or 79 on the web-based test is required.
Time Limit for Completion of Certificate
Per University Policy, all Certificates have a five-year time limit; however, the
approximate time to complete the Certificate is two years.
Department Contacts
Barb Warner
bwarner@usf.edu