Business Analytics
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
with 16 points from the best 3 Higher Level subjects
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
BSc Business Analytics is an academically rigorous degree programme that teaches the core skills of analysing data to help solve modern business problems. If you are numerate, analytically minded with an unquenchable curiosity about how and why things are done the way they are, Business Analytics can help launch your career in industry, finance, the public sector, government or consulting.
Programme overview
Truly modern organisations rely on sophisticated analysis and technology to perform effectively, and we produce creative, technically competent and skilled graduates who can deliver these skills and more.
We will show you how analysing data can help solve real-life problems and show what it means to think statistically as you learn techniques and approaches that help organisations plan and improve decision-making processes.
In your second and third years, you will study project management modules that act as a core to help put ideas into practice, gain employee support during organisational change initiatives, and improve your consultancy skills.
You can also choose modules for a specialist track. The Business Analytics track delivers the mathematical tools to develop practical, numerate and computer-based modelling.
The Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management track explores the problems faced by operations managers. It covers topics such as purchasing, inventory planning and risk analysis. For students who want to learn more about designing and managing the computer-based systems of our digital economy, the Information Systems specialism is for you.
BSc Business Analytics is also available as a four-year programme with a year in industry or as a four-year study abroad programme. It may be possible to switch to one of these courses after you start, subject to availability and to visa and other requirements.
Our careers team, including a dedicated departmental careers coach, will work with you from day one to help with internships, placements and graduate employment. We will supply training in CV writing, interview assessment centres and telephone interviews, helping you with your future career ambitions.
Key facts
Students use programming tools such as Python and R, spreadsheets and business intelligence software, gaining important skills which can be applied to bring intelligence to industry. We will teach you how to make forecasts and use data to understand complex behaviour and introduce you to operational and strategic business contexts, applying your skills on a team project for a client in the Lancaster area.
Programme outcomes
Business Analytics is one of the most important areas of modern business as the volume of data both created and employed increases. Depending on your chosen pathway, Business Analytics at Lancaster will equip you to manage and interrogate data with e view to improving business performance, be that in operations or logistics and supply chain management.
The Uni
Lancaster University
Organisation, Work and Technology
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Not a very common degree on its own, this is often taken in combination with maths degrees. The skills gained by operational research graduates mean that they are in demand, so have a low unemployment rate and pretty respectable salaries, especially in finance and in London - the average starting salary for OR graduates in the capital was nearly £33,000 last year.
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Operational research
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