3 Online Consultancy MSc Degree Programs

The MSc in Business Analysis & Consulting has been developed to equip you with the practical, evaluative, and analytical skills to allow you, as a future manager or consultant, to influence and develop strategy and performance within organizations. You'll learn the key quantitative business analysis methods necessary to evaluate performance. Industry involvement is at the heart of the course. You'll spend three weeks in January on a work placement, and have the opportunity to undertake your summer project in collaboration with an external organization. In addition, you'll learn how to use business models to support the development of a strategy for organizations and to help them monitor and measure strategic processes. By the end of the program, you'll have developed the key skills of business consulting, which are applicable to any organization.

Overview The MSc Business Analytics and Consultancy programme created by Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University will give you the skills most highly valued by today’s employers who are increasingly seeking graduates skilled in using data-driven, evidence-based approaches of decision-making in complex business environments. The demand by employers for business analytics skills and competencies is considerably increasing while there is a significant shortage of these skills and competencies among the job seekers. Therefore, the gap in the job market in this field is enormous. There are several core elements of this MSc programme that will set students apart in the corporate world, these include the core skills you will gain on our Business Analytics course followed by our research-led Big Data Analytics course, the Network Analysis course and a new course in Management Consultancy.

This is a specialized degree program designed to both further the success of current accounting professionals and equip career-changers with the skills necessary to enter and excel in this industry.