Undergraduate - Bachelor of Science

Business Data Analytics, BS

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Length
30 Credits
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Program description

Business Data Analytics, BS

Organizations increasingly rely on large volumes of data to guide strategy and operations, creating demand for professionals who can turn raw information into actionable business insight. This requires both technical skill and an understanding of how data supports organizational decision-making. The Bachelor of Science in Business Data Analytics equips students with the knowledge and experience needed to build and manage large-scale data initiatives and the business processes that support them. Students develop technical and organizational competencies in data gathering, cleansing, integration, and modeling, along with data asset analysis for business use, while coursework in data warehousing, dimensional modeling, big data analytics methods, and visualization tools introduces topics such as data mining and predictive analytics.
Curriculum

Featured courses

Enterprise Analytics

Model lifecycle analysis, analytics governance, aligning governance, aligning firm and analytics strategy, big data security issues, enterprise search, applied projects.

Business Data Warehouses and Dimensional Modeling

SQL, stored procedures and data warehouse architectures; data warehouse requirements definition, design and analysis; overview of the steps in building information-enabled business models; role of data warehousing in data mining and analytics.

Big Data and AI in Business

Platforms and architectures for building and working with large-scale structured, unstructured and multidimensional data sources and systems with a focus on utilizing these tools in business applications. Building recommender systems and natural language processing, recent advancements in deep learning and large language models and their applications.

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Admission requirements

Program requirements

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Key admission dates & deadlines

Program start Spring 2027 Fall 2027
Campus Immersion Online Campus Immersion Online
Application deadline October 1st, 2026 October 1st, 2026 January 15th, 2027 January 15th, 2027
Classes start January 11th, 2027 January 11th, 2027 August 19th, 2027 August 19th, 2027
Outcomes

Career opportunities & applicable roles

The demand for employees with business analytics skills is strong; the Occupational Information Network projects 34% growth in business intelligence analyst positions through 2034. Graduates pursuing this field can work as data analysts, data architects, data visualization developers, data change agents and data operators, with many serving as data architects, change agents and analytics tool suite operators for business and government.

Career examples include
Business Intelligence Analyst Computer Network Administrator Computer Network Analyst Computer Programmer Computer Scientist Data Management Specialist Database Administrator (DBA) Information Security Analyst Information Technology Manager (IT Manager) Intelligence Officer
The school

W. P. Carey School of Business

ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business is the largest business school in the United States, serving more than 25,000 students. Its mission centers on educating students, producing impactful research and engaging actively with the communities it serves. The school is recognized for both research and teaching. The Financial Times ranked W. P. Carey No. 17 globally and No. 3 among U.S. public schools for research, and U.S. News & World Report ranks its online undergraduate business programs No. 2 in the nation. Students study fields such as finance, accounting, supply chain management, business analytics, marketing and entrepreneurship, with classes offered on ASU's Tempe, Polytechnic and West Valley campuses and online.

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