UBC Master of Business Analytics

Curriculum

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Your path to success

Over the course of twelve months, the UBC MBAN will equip you to thrive in today’s – and tomorrow’s – data-driven world. You’ll gain the technical knowledge needed to analyze different types of data sets effectively through courses like Advanced Predictive Business Analytics and Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty.  

Students gain a deep understanding of the expansive business context with classes like Supply Chain Management and Data Driven Marketing. In other words, these twelve months will give you unparalleled analytical decision-making skills.

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Program goals

All UBC MBAN candidates participate in a 4-month internship where you will consult on an analytical challenge faced by a partner company or non-profit organization. There are two main internship streams that students can apply for: an analytics research project supervised by UBC Sauder's renowned Centre for Operations Excellence or a traditional internship contributing to an analytics project onsite at a partner company in Vancouver. Past industry partners include TELUS, Boeing Vancouver, and Fraser Health Authority.

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills; Understanding of the business context; Ethics and social responsibility; Problem-solving skills including project management and change management

Courses

  • BA 509: Analytics Consulting Internship

Program goals

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills

Courses

  • BAIT 507: Data Management for Business Analytics

  • BAIT 508: Business Analytics Programming

Program goals

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills

Courses

  • BABS 506: Analyzing and Modelling Uncertainty

  • BABS 507: Descriptive and Predictive Business Analytics
  • BABS 508: Advanced Predictive Business Analytics
  • BABS 502: Forecasting and Time Series Prediction
  • BAIT 509: Business Applications of Machine Learning

Program goals

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills

Courses

  • BAMS 506: Optimal Decision Making I

  • BAMS 508: Optimal Decision Making II
  • BAMS 503: Simulation Modeling I: Data Processing and Monte Carlo Simulation
  • BAMS 504: Simulation Modeling II: Queueing and Discrete Event Simulation
  • BAMS 517: Decision Analysis under uncertainty

Program goals

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills; Understanding of the business context; Ethics and social responsibility

Courses

  • BASC 500: Process Fundamentals

  • BASC 523: Supply Chain Management
  • BAMA 509: Marketing Foundations for Analytics
  • BAMA 516: Customer Relationship Management
  • BAMA 511: Pricing Analytics
  • BAMA 517: Data Driven Marketing

Program goals

Advanced analytical decision making; Communication skills; Team skills; Understanding of the business context; Ethics and social responsibility; Problem-solving skills including project management and change management

Courses

  • BAMS 521: Consulting Practices and Project Management

  • BA 520: Career Development Programming
  • BA 550: Business Immersion
  • BASM 550: Strategic Management

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