Big Data & Business Analytics

Learn how to use business data to improve efficiency, solve problems, identify new opportunities, and prepare for the future.

The minor in big data and business analytics complements all majors across the Sawyer Business School and College of Arts & Sciences. It includes three required courses, which combine data management with data mining techniques, predictive analytics, and visualization.

Are you a senior working toward an undergraduate degree in business? Or a recent graduate? If so, you can earn a master’s in accounting, business analytics, taxation, marketing or finance with just one more year of study.

With the Suffolk MSBA​ program, you will get insights into how data preparation is vital to implementing business analytics—the foundation for making high-level, data-driven decisions across a wide range of industries.

Suffolk’s Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics (GCBA) is a five-course program designed for individuals with undergraduate business degrees interested in gaining skills in business analytics, including data management and predictive analytics.

The Suffolk MBA/MSBA dual degree program combines Suffolk's experiential MBA curriculum with key competencies in data management and business analytics.

Suffolk’s MSBA/MS in Accounting dual degree combines hands-on accounting experiences and study with a solid grounding in data analytics and interpretation. This expedited program focuses on preparing you to apply accounting concepts and assessments of financial data to a multitude of business situations.

This dual-degree program is designed to combine analytics capabilities with an advanced financial education. You’ll graduate with communication skills, a mastery of analytics, and strategic insights.

The MSBA/MSM dual degree arms you with a unique set of analytical tools such as CRIS-DM and Analytics Life Cycle to guide data management for timely executive decision making as applied to marketing research.