Course Information

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Overview of Course Information

• Our MSBA program offers a wide variety of analytics courses and business courses from data mining and advanced business analytics to IT project management and management information systems & technology
• The MSBA program requires students to take a minimum of 10 courses (33 credits) to complete this degree, 
• Students are required to complete 30 graduate-level credits, or 10 three-credit courses (5000 level or higher), with a 3.0 GPA or higher to graduate. The program does not offer a thesis option. 

Program Sheets

• Additional details about the program courses can be found in the following documents:
  • Program Overview from Graduate College (pdf)
  • MSBA Flow Chart (pdf)

MSBA Course List

• Students pursuing the MSBA program must take the 10 courses (8 Required Courses & 2 Elective Courses) in the College of Business listed in the table below
• To see the course descriptions for any of the courses below, please visit the FAU Catalog

Technology Tools Used in MSBA Courses

• Interested in learning more about the tools/software/programs we use in the MSBA courses?
• Check out our Course Tool List Document to view a list of all the tools/software/programs we use in our MSBA Courses.

MSBA Course Spotlight Videos

• Interested in learning more about a specific Management Information Systems & Operations Management Course?
• Check out our course spotlight videos page and get an inside look into what goes on in each of our courses.

Recommended Course Order

• Students are generally advised to take GEB 6215 during their first semester in the program either before or concurrently with other ISM courses, as GEB 6215 requires you to complete integrated assignments in your other ISM courses.
• Please contact your Graduate Advisor in the College of Business to discuss more about GEB integration and how to create your Plan of Study (POS).

Course Offerings

• In the Fall and Spring semesters, courses are offered during 16-week terms; we do not offer 8-week courses in the Fall and Spring at this time. In the Summer semesters, course are generally offering during a 12-weeks term and course offerings are limited.
• All courses in the MSBA program can be completed in the traditional in-person format. In-person courses are usually offered either during the day or in the evenings. 
• Please check the FAU Course Schedule when planning your classes, and also work with your Graduate Advisor to create your Plan of Study (POS).

MSBA courses

• Here is a snapshot of the major MSBA courses with a brief about their applied activities, tools, and links to corresponding course spotlight videos provided. This information is also downloadable from here.

Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Programs and Courses: The dedicated faculty at the Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) department in the College of Business offer high quality research and teaching in AI and Business Analytics and can help students learn core analytics skills that empowers them to extract actionable intelligence from the copious digital data relevant to the businesses. Through hands-on teaching, we offer a variety of courses, that teach not only just the concepts but also the applied skills to work directly with the data to analyze business issues and trends. We offer a variety of programs including a Master’s Degree in Business Analytics, a Graduate Certificate in Big Data Analytics, an Undergraduate Certificate & Minor in Business Analytics, an Undergraduate Certificate & Minor in Artificial Intelligence, and an MBA & MSITM Concentration in Business Analytics.
Data Skills	Visualization Skills	Analytical Skills
Advanced Business Analytics ISM 4403 Applied Activities: Data scraping from Internet and Social Media Tools: Python, R, MySQL, Workbench	Introduction to Business Analytics  and Big Data ISM 3116 Applied Activities: Visualization of the data for creating a dashboard and storytelling Tools: Tableau	Data Mining and Predictive Analytics ISM 4117 Applied Activities: Data mining using Classification, Regression, Neural Networks, KNN, Clustering, Decision Trees algorithms Tools: Excel, XLMiner
Database Management Systems ISM 4212 Applied Activities: Data access, retrieval, insert, manipulation, table creation & joins Tools: Oracle 12c SQL	Data Management & Analysis with Excel QMB 3302 Applied Activities: Report generation with the pivot tables and charts; Data analysis with scenario manager and solver add-ins Tools: Microsoft Excel	Social Media and Web Analytics ISM 4420 Applied Activities: Web and Social Media analytics metrics, use of Web 2.0, dashboard creation, Competitor analysis Tools: Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, Similarweb, Emplif (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube analytics)
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation for Business ISM 4421 Applied Activities: Working with the AI platform (IBM Watson) for business transformation Tools: IBM Watson Studio & Cloud
Data Skills	Visualization Skills	Analytical Skills
Advanced Business Analytics ISM 6405 Applied Activities: Data scraping from Internet and Social Media, cleaning, manipulating Tools: Python, R, MySQL, Workbench	Introduction to Business Analytics and Big Data ISM 6404 Applied Activities: Visualization of the data for creating a dashboard and storytelling Tools: Tableau, PowerBI	Data Mining and Predictive Analytics ISM 6136 Applied Activities: Data mining using Classification, Regression, Neural Networks, KNN, Clustering, Decision Trees algorithms Tools: Excel, XLMiner, Rapid Miner
Database Management Systems ISM 6217 Applied Activities: Data access, retrieval, insert, manipulation, table creation, joins Tools: Oracle 12c SQL, MySQL Workbench, MongoDB	Data Management & Analysis with Excel QMB 6303 Applied Activities: Report generation with the pivot tables and charts; Data analysis with scenario manager and solver add-ins Tools: Microsoft Excel	Social Media and Web Analytics ISM 6555 Applied Activities: Web and Social Media analytics metrics, use of Web 2.0, dashboard creation, competitor analysis Tools: Google Analytics, Similarweb, Emplifi (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube analytics), Tableau
Business Innovation with Artificial Intelligence ISM 6427C Applied Activities: Working with the AI platform (IBM Watson) for business transformation Tools: IBM Watson Studio & Cloud
Website: business.fau.edu/itom	Email: askitom@fau.edu	Phone: 561-297-3191

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