Ontario College Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics (Otawa)

Business Analysts have become an integral part of every organization and have the responsibility to adopt modern technologies, methodologies, and historical data to develop insight and improve on future business processes across the organization. In the program, students are equipped with the requisite industry knowledge needed to drive innovation and change in any organization. More so, the curriculum delves into core Business Analyst expertise required such as project and task planning, statistical analysis, report writing, resource management, eliciting, documenting, and communicating requirements, process modelling and improvements, project management and business communication among others. In addition, students study topics such as business analysis core concept models, requirement documents. and software testing development life cycles and methodologies. The program also covers many industry applications and techniques such as SQL, Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Power BI Waterfall and Agile Methodologies and Requirements Elicitation among others.
With improved globalization and constant innovation across different industries, there has been an increased demand for employees with unique skill sets in identifying, describing, and interpreting various forms of business generated data that help inform corporate decisions in order for companies to stay relevant and competitive. In line with these employer demands, the Lambton College Business Analytics, Ontario College Graduate Certificate helps train students to explore, understand, and ultimately influence business planning within organizations where necessary.

A university degree in business/commerce, mathematics, statistics or another related discipline.

The admissions process is competitive and meeting the minimum academic requirements does not guarantee admission.

Lambton College reserves the right to alter information including admission requirements and to cancel at any time a program or course, to change the location and/or term in which a program or course is offered, to change the program curriculum as necessary to meet current competencies or changes in the job market, to change the pathways third-party certification bodies, or to withdraw an offer of admission both prior to and after its acceptance by an applicant or student because of insufficient applications or registrations or over-acceptance of offers of admission. In the event Lambton College exercises such a right, Lambton College's sole liability will be the return of monies paid by the applicant or student to Lambton College.

English Language Requirements
Applicants must demonstrate language proficiency by submitting one of the following scores:

IELTS of 6.5
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IELTS of 6.0 + Completion of EAP-3106 (English for Academic Purposes) during first term of study.
TOEFL iBT 79
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TOEFL 70 + Completion of EAP-3106 (English for Academic Purposes) during first term of study.
Passed Lambton Institute of English placement test