Business Analytics University of Sheffield

The complex business challenges of today need managers with the analytical and technical skills to tackle them. You’ll gain skills including the use of Python and data visualisation, and explore how to apply them to decision-making within a business on our MSc Business Analytics.

Making effective decisions is crucial in today’s business world. This course will develop the skills that you need to analyse complex business challenges and make decisions that have a positive impact. You do not need to have studied data or analytics before to study this course.

You’ll build up your analytical and technical skills during the course, starting with the fundamentals and progressing to learn about complex analytical models, decision-making and carrying out your own independent research.

We use our links with industry to bring guest lecturers to the course and you’ll work with real-world data sets to put the skills you learn into practice. Working with industry experts during the course means that you’ll develop your knowledge of working with stakeholders to understand their needs.

For the project dissertation, you can choose to work with an organisation to get more industry experience and apply the theory from the course to a real-world challenge.

Accreditation

The Management School is Triple Crown accredited by AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB.

Entry requirements for this course

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View foundation and pathway programmes to help you meet academic and language entry requirements.