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Overview
Insight into UWP’s online MBA in Data Analytics
Prepare for a career boost in a high-demand field with the MBA with a Concentration in Data Analytics 100% online program at UW-Parkside. This MBA is designed to develop your ability to assimilate, interpret, and present information and data for effective decision making with any organization. Gain the skillsets for highly specialized roles as a Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics Professional, Business Analyst, and more.
$18,000 Total Tuition
As few as 12 months Duration
30 Credit Hours
This online MBA program from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside introduces you to technologies that include database technologies and programming. You can choose electives that will develop your skills in digital marketing and social media, quantitative models for supply chains, and optimization techniques.
You will learn about quantitative techniques managers use to enhance decision making, such as linear programming and its applications, decision and risk analysis, multicriteria decisions, supply contract methods, inventory management techniques, network planning, distribution strategies, and more. You will acquire in-depth knowledge about digital marketing, social media, internet marketing, consumer behavior, web analytics, search engines, advertising, and creative strategy.
Our core course work comprises 24 credit hours and empowers you with a variety of foundational skills and advanced applications. You will learn advanced strategic management concepts, particularly business-level and corporate-level strategy formulation, implementation, and control. If you do not have an undergraduate background in business, you will benefit from our foundation courses designed to ensure your success in the MBA program. These two courses introduce you to principles in finance, accounting, statistics, and economics.
All courses are 7 weeks in length and taught by highly qualified faculty with extensive experience as corporate managers and entrepreneurs. Our curriculum is frequently revised to remain relevant with industry trends, in part based on feedback from our esteemed Business Advisory Board, which is comprised of approximately 30 senior business leaders and entrepreneurs from a variety of management backgrounds. You can complete your degree in as few as 12 months.
In this online MBA program, you will learn:
- An analytical approach to developing solutions for challenging business issues
- The impact of both domestic and global environments on a firm's operations
- Advanced leadership skills and strategy formulation
- Awareness of the issues of working within a competitive global marketplace, and development of corresponding strategies
Also Available:
University of Wisconsin-Parkside offers a variety of specialized MBA programs. Learn about our other MBA online degree programs.
Accreditations:
Department of Business programs in the College of Business, Economics, and Computing at UW-Parkside are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).
Tuition
UW-Parkside’s affordable tuition
Tuition for the MBA with a Concentration in Data Analytics online degree program is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. All fees are included.
$600 Per Credit Hour
$1,200 Per 2 Credit Hour Course
$18,000 Total Tuition
If you are applying for financial aid, please use School Code 005015. For further information, please contact our financial aid office at 262-595-2574 or [email protected].
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The schedule for our online program
The MBA with a Concentration in Data Analytics online program is delivered in an online format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year. Choose the start date that best suits your goals.
| Term | Session | First Class Day | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Payment Deadline | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2021 | 071 | 09/13/2021 | 08/23/2021 | 08/30/2021 | 09/07/2021 | 09/12/2021 | 10/29/2021 |
| 072 | 11/01/2021 | 10/11/2021 | 10/18/2021 | 10/26/2021 | 10/31/2021 | 12/17/2021 | |
| Spring 2022 | 071 | 01/31/2022 | 01/10/2022 | 01/17/2022 | 01/25/2022 | 01/30/2022 | 03/18/2022 |
| 072 | 03/28/2022 | 03/07/2022 | 03/14/2022 | 03/22/2022 | 03/27/2022 | 05/13/2022 | |
| Summer 2022 | 071 | 05/23/2022 | 05/02/2022 | 05/09/2022 | 05/17/2022 | 05/22/2022 | 07/08/2022 |
| 072 | 07/11/2022 | 06/20/2022 | 06/27/2022 | 07/05/2022 | 07/10/2022 | 08/26/2022 |
Admissions
Requirements for the online Data Analytics program
For unconditional admission into the MBA with a Concentration in Data Analytics online program, you must hold a bachelor’s degree and provide transcripts from all institutions previously attended as well as meet the requirements below.
MBA online admission requirements (based on undergraduate GPA)
- 2.75 and above. Applicants must have transcripts sent directly to UW-Parkside from all previous institutions attended. No GMAT will be required.
- 2.5 to 2.749–In addition to transcripts, applicants must submit a resume verifying a minimum of three years of managerial- and/or professional-level experience. Without the required work experience, applicants are required to submit two recommendations. No GMAT will be required.
- 2.33 to 2.49–In addition to transcripts, applicants must submit a resume verifying a minimum of three years of managerial- and/or professional-level experience, and two recommendations. No GMAT will be required.
Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended, regardless if they appear on the degree awarding transcript or not, should be mailed directly from the institution(s) to UW-Parkside at this address:
Admissions OfficeUniversity of Wisconsin-Parkside
900 Wood Road
Kenosha, WI 53144
Official transcripts sent directly from issuing institution(s) are also accepted electronically by selecting UW-Parkside as the receiving institution and/or providing [email protected] as the email address.
A non-refundable application fee of $56.
Applicants are also strongly encouraged to email a copy of their current resume at the time of application to [email protected].
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The topics you’ll study in our MBA in Data Analytics Online classes
The MBA with a Concentration in Data Analytics online curriculum is comprised of 30 credit hours, including 24 credit hours of MBA core courses, two credit hours of required electives, and four credit hours of specialized electives. Applicants may be granted a waiver of one or both of the required foundation courses (MBA 502: Finance & Accounting and MBA 512: Statistics & Economics) based on a review of the applicant’s official transcripts.
Applicants may be granted a waiver of one or both of the required foundation courses (MBA 502: Finance & Accounting and MBA 512: Statistics & Economics) based on a review of the applicant’s official transcripts.
MBA 502 | Foundations in Finance & Accounting
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Introduces financial and managerial accounting principles and tools used in managing businesses.
MBA 512 | Foundations in Statistics and Economics
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Introduces descriptive statistics, probability and expectations, theoretical distributions, sampling distributions, estimations, and hypothesis testing. Focuses on three major macroeconomics variables (GDP, inflation, and unemployment) and analysis of both fiscal and monetary policies.
You must take the following courses.
MBA 700 | Creative and Innovative Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Focuses on challenges and opportunities associated with being an effective, creative and innovative manager in the increasingly complex, disruptive, and competitive workplace.
MBA 702 | Managerial Accounting
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Delves into the role of accounting in the successful management of business enterprises; identification of relevant cost and revenue information for managerial decisions; application of analytical reasoning and formal models to various business problems.
MBA 715 | Advanced Operations Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Reinforces and explores in detail the concepts and techniques of modern operations management. Uses case studies, simulation, and real life business issues to examine new and emerging trends.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Explores the basics of project planning and control, PERT/CRM, work breakdown structures, cost control, matrix organization, resources scheduling and leveling, and outsourcing. Introduces project management software.
MBA 720 | Information Technology for Business Decision Making
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Introduces various technologies for business decision making. Includes decision support systems, technologies for achieving operational excellence, enterprise systems, customer relationship management systems, business intelligence systems, data mining, and strategic decision making based on data and forecasting.
MBA 732 | Corporate Financial Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Examines the theory and practice of corporate finance; fundamental ideas such as the time value of money and its role in valuation. Applies techniques to major decision areas that face financial managers.
MBA 741 | Contemporary Challenges in Managing Organizations
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Examines traditional theories and contemporary managerial perspectives to optimize organizational effectiveness. Includes leadership, motivation and performance, decision making and empowerment, organization climate, culture and change, individual human processes, and overall global management.
MBA 742 | Leadership: Theory, Application, and Skill Development
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Focuses on the demands of organizational leadership. Examines theories, strategies, and approaches to leadership including the effect of globalization and the role of ethics on leadership.
MBA 746 | Advanced Global Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Focuses on managing and coordinating diverse workers across national boundaries using case studies and current managerial dilemmas in different cultures.
MBA 752 | Marketing Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Utilizes case studies to hone analytical and decision making skills for marketing. Focuses on the various kinds of problems in marketing that the modern decision maker must resolve.
MBA 793 | Competitive Decision Making
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Provides advanced learning experience in competitive decision making through the use of an online business simulation.
MBA 796 | Advanced Strategic Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Focuses on strategic management as an essential function for all types of organizations and firms. Emphasizes advanced strategic management concepts, particularly business-level and corporate-level strategy formulation, implementation, and control.
You must take the following course.
MBA 729 | Technologies for Data Analytics
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Introduces technologies for data analytics. Includes database technologies and programming for data analytics.
You must choose two of the following courses.
MBA 761 | Optimization Techniques
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Covers quantitative techniques managers use to enhance decision-making, including topics such as linear programming and its application, integer linear programming, non-linear programming, decision and risk analysis, and multicriteria decisions.
MBA 758 | Digital Marketing and Social Media
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Emphasizes digital marketing, social media, internet marketing, consumer behavior, web analytics, search engines, optimization, and advertising and creativity strategy via cases, discussions, and a simulation game.
MBA 762 | Quantitative Models for Supply Chains
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 2
Covers quantitative techniques managers use to enhance decision making, including topics such as supply contract methods, inventory management techniques, network planning, distribution strategies, and supply chain decision making under uncertainty.
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