Business Analytics: Research Track

Business Analytics: Research Track

Use the power of data science, big data, statistics and machine learning to maximise your impact.

The Master's in Business Analytics is a two-year programme, divided into four semesters.

In your first semester, you'll take a number of core compulsory courses. During the second and third semester, you'll focus on your own specialisation. Finally, in the fourth semester, you'll spend six months doing an internship at a business or research institute, giving you first-hand experience of the working world.

During the programme, you'll learn all about mathematical modelling and how to apply it in practice (including at financial institutions), how to make predictions using machine learning and statistics, how to analyse data and recognise data patterns and structures, and how to build a complete decision support system as part of a group project.

You'll also learn valuable professional skills, including scientific writing and presentation skills, as well as communication and teamwork as part of an interdisciplinary team. Finally, you'll combine your business analytics knowledge with your professional skills in practice during your traineeship.

The start date of this programme is September 1st.

1st year

First and second semester

• Optimisation of Business Processes
• Computational Intelligence
• Financial Risk Management
• Research track

2nd year

Third and fourth semester

• Optimisation of Business Processes
• Computational Intelligence
• Financial Risk Management
• Research track

As a graduate from the Business Analytics Master's programme, you'll be familiar with all the steps from data to solution, including the skills required to communicate to stakeholders and convince them of your advice.

You'll be well-prepared either to focus on a single step in the process – becoming a specialist – or to take a broad view, sitting at the centre of the web in data science projects. In both cases, Business Analytics alumni are extremely valuable to all sorts of organisations.

Both the private and public sectors are constantly looking for ways to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Your skills as a business analyst are in such high demand that you may receive job offers before you graduate or at the company where you completed your internship.

And there's more: even during your studies you could easily find yourself taking on a part-time job as a junior data analyst or programmer. While your fellow students are waiting tables or stocking shelves, you could well be generating extra income while picking up highly relevant work experience.