Business Analytics Certificate of Graduate Study

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Business Analytics Certificate of Graduate Study

Unlock Your Potential 

Earn a Business Analytics Certificate 

The Business Analytics Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) courses offered by Rowan University's Rohrer College of Business (RCB): 

  • will increase your effectiveness at managing organizations, leveraging solutions, and captaining business strategies that lead to success by expanding your capacity to analyze and translate data into actionable and realistic business plans based on predicting trends and forecasting simulations; 
  • are a valuable stand-alone credential on your way to earning a master's degree; 
  • are ideal for those who have not yet taken the Graduate Admission Test (GMAT) as the GMAT is not required for admission to the COGS program; and 
  • are fully transferrable into the MBA program at Rowan in the future to satisfy a Business Analytics area of concentration. 

Stand Out in Your Field 

Learn how to take data and transform it into actionable insights and successful and innovative business strategies. Explore a variety of analytical processes, strategies, principles, and models to leverage markets, increase productivity and business operations, and enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction. 

Business analytics skills are in demand internationally across all industries. Career goals might include positions such as: 

  • Business analyst; 
  • Data analyst;  
  • Financial analyst;  
  • Marketing analyst; and 
  • Operations analyst. 

Long-term career goals might include strategic planner, expert business consultant, and chief data officer. 

Why Choose a COGS? 

A COGS pathway makes it possible to immediately focus on a specialized area of interest strategically tailored for your next career move or the next step in your education. The admissions process for a COGS is more streamlined than for a full degree, allowing a simpler entry point to explore graduate studies. 

Pursuing a Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) can contribute to your earning a promotion or higher pay, expand your responsibilities in your current role, and make your resume stand out.  

Gain expertise you can add to your repertoire and resume now. Elevate your strategic and critical-thinking dexterity, revitalize your skill set, improve your leadership and management potential, and give your work performance more agility and depth. 

Curriculum

Learn to analyze and interpret numerical data and qualitative information to critically explore and investigate past business performances, to gain insights that drive future decision-making and planning for improved performance. Areas of focus include optimizing processes, statistical forecasting techniques, and alternative decision-making. 

A Business Analytics Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) at Rowan’s Rohrer College of Business requires completion of 9 graduate-level credits made up of 3 courses. Find out more about Business Analytics course offerings below.   

  • 3 Courses / 9 credits 
  • Foundation Courses: No 
  • Graduation / Exit / Thesis Requirements URL: No  

Note: To allow for some flexibility and exploration of emerging topics in business, academic departments may choose to run special topics courses in place of the below standard offerings for this COGS. The below courses for this COGS are typically offered each year, but might be distributed across semesters, so students should expect that it will take more than one semester to complete all coursework. Typically, one course for this COGS is offered each Fall and Spring semester, with the potential for a Summer semester course offering. 

Coursework codes, Titles and Descriptions - Select 3 Courses

MGT 06603 - Process Analytics

MGT 06603 - Process Analytics (3 credits)

  • This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Process analytics introduces a different domain of quantitative analytics in understanding, improving, and creating processes, and it is critical for managers and business professionals to use the knowledge and tools to create competitive advantage. This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge on process analytics – including process data acquisition, analysis, matching and models in modern process analytics.
MGT 07500 - Prescriptive Analytics

MGT 07500 - Prescriptive Analytics (3 credits)

  • Students in this course will learn knowledge and methods for prescriptive analytics that include optimization, decision-analysis, and simulation. These techniques and knowledge can be applied not only to improvement of operations but also healthcare and service industries. Prescriptive analytics is essential in guiding managers and business professionals to understand current and future situations and to derive concrete decision alternatives from the business data. Using fundamental and applied methods in prescriptive analytics, the course charts a course for moving forward on the horizon of the immediate and long-term future.

MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics

MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics (3 credits)

  • This course builds a thorough understanding of how our processes and products can be continually improved through organization-wide quality management. The course will cover customers, outputs, processes, inputs, stake and stock holders, and decision making functions as they relate to enhancing the vitality of organizations to make them customer focused. The focus is on developing and implementing "soft" and "hard" tools to deliver the "best net value" to customers. In this course, students will investigate the aspects of forming organizational alliances and consensus thinking; deriving functional synergies; using quality analytics such as Six Sigma, Design of Experiment, Control Charts, etc.; developing customer orientation, facilitating teamwork, and getting a real-world perspective.

MGT 07600 - Predictive Analytics

MGT 07600 - Predictive Analytics (3 credits)

  • This course is designed to acquaint the graduate student with the advanced statistical forecasting techniques. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to identify a forecasting problem, gather data and use computerized statistical packages to obtain solutions, analyze results, determine the validity and reliability of the model, and if necessary, recommend alternative methods to solve the model. This course may not be offered annually.

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Admissions Requirements

The following is a list of items required to begin the application process for a Certificate of Graduate Study in Business Analytics. Further actions or materials may be required. Upon receipt of the materials below, a representative from Rowan Admissions will contact you with confirmation or will indicate any missing items.

  • Completed Rowan Application Form
  • $65 (U.S.) non-refundable application fee
  • Bachelor’s degree (or its equivalent) from an accredited institution of higher learning
  • Official transcripts from all colleges attended (regardless of number of credits earned)
  • Current professional resume
  • Typewritten statement of professional objectives
    • Provide reasons for pursuing the program. Describe how you might use this program to advance your career (educational goals beyond the master's level, if applicable, are also relevant).
  • Minimum undergraduate cumulative GPA of 2.5 (on a 4.0 scale)

Admissions Information

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