Business Data Analytics
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
or above.
120 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
T Level
UCAS Tariff
from a combination of Level 3 qualifications.
About this course
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Why Business Data Analytics?
Our Bachelor of Science in Business Data Analytics prepares students with the requisite knowledge, skills and experience to create, analyse and manage data driven initiatives. In addition, students will have the skills and confidence to facilitate decision making and large-scale business data analytics in organisations.
The concept and importance of "data analytics" has been known for a while, but the last few years have seen a sizeable swell in interest and media attention. Recently, the ways in which social media companies use the data collected about their users have hit the headlines and has shown the enormous impact data analysis and usage has on our lives every day.
This course is part of NOVUS Lite, an innovation developed with the university in conjunction with the NOVUS Trust. The Trust is an industry-led organisation that focuses on developing talent in the transport, logistics and supply chain management sectors. Being part of the scheme opens up wider opportunities for work experience and networking with professional in the sector, and is valuable to your professional development. The course provides a fantastic opportunity to join the NOVUS Lite scheme, which involves a guaranteed third year placement, a paid summer placement and a company mentor (subject to availability). NOVUS company guest lectures and site visits are also a benefit of the scheme. To join, you will need to successfully pass a series of short assessments held at the start of the first year of your studies. For details of NOVUS Lite please click here - https://www.novus.uk.com/how-it-works/our-benefits/
How will I learn?
You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.
* A degree in business data analytics would impart you with important transferable skills, such as data analysis, visualisation, data management, critical-thinking and problem-solving.
* Open up opportunities across industries as data managers, data consultants, business analysts, data scientists, consumer and market knowledge managers, chief data officers, big data architects and business and marketing analysts.
* The programme is designed to develop both technical and professional skills, technical in terms of data science, visualisation, database structures, and use of software – and professional skills in terms of the commercialisation of designed innovation and organisational decision making.
* You’ll learn to operate in the spaces between the IT and business disciplines and obtain the skills to both innovate in the new economy and commercialise those innovations. On completion you’ll possess the capacity to absorb and re-combine knowledge from different disciplines and innovate for the advantage of your organisation.
What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as Introduction to Data Analysis, Understanding Business Analytics, Data visualisation, and Applied Data Science. It’s clear that for companies large or small in today's modern business data is essential to help inform strategy, make decisions and identify problems, challenges and opportunities. This is true for both online and offline companies, and the notion that organisations are 'data rich, but skills poor' holds true. Organisations need graduates who can understand and analyse data to make informed business-related decisions. This course can help you do just that, sitting at the intersection between data analytical skills and business decision making.
Modules
Year 1
Core modules:
ASPIRE 1
Introduction to Databases
Introduction to Data Analysis
Understanding Organisational Behaviour
Understanding Business Analytics
Year 2
Core modules:
ASPIRE 2
Data Visualisation
Econometrics
Applied Data Science
Business Creation and Development
Option modules:
Either
Management Science Applications
or
Planning Techniques for Logistics and Transport Operations
Year 3 - optional placement year
Final year
Core modules:
ASPIRE 3
Strategy and Business Transformation
Data Analytics and Creating Value
Advanced Analytics
Applied Econometrics
Option modules:
Either
Supply Chain Systems and Modelling
or
The Psychology of Work & Organisations
Assessment methods
Study and assessments will be based on your choice of modules. Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
Please see our website for more information - http://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/undergraduate-scholarships/
The Uni
University of Huddersfield
Department of Logistics, Operations, Hospitality and Marketing (BDLOHM)
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This is a degree in demand, as business increasingly needs workers who can examine and explain complex data. And yet the number of economics graduates fell by nearly 10% last year, which means demand is even greater. As so many economic grads go into banking and finance, it's not surprising that over half of all 2015's economics graduates who did go into work were working in London. And don't think it's just the finance industry that's interested in these graduates - there's a significant number who enter the IT industry to work with data as analysts and consultants. It's quite common for economics graduates to go into jobs such as accountancy and management consultancy which may require you to take more training and gain professional qualifications - so don’t assume you won’t have to take any more exams once you leave uni. And the incentive to take them, of course, is better pay, which will be on top of an already healthy average starting salary of over £30,000 for graduates working in the capital.
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