PgDip Business Analysis & Consulting

Business Analysis & Consulting has been developed to equip you with the practical, evaluative and analytical skills to allow you, as a future manager or consultant, to influence and develop strategy and performance within organisations.You'll learn the key quantitative business analysis methods necessary to evaluate performance.Industry involvement is at the heart of the course. You'll have numerous external clients throughout the year in your experiential learning class, and have the opportunity to undertake your summer project in collaboration with an external organisation.In addition, you'll learn how to use business models to support the development of strategy for organisations and to help them to monitor and measure strategic processes.By the end of the programme, you'll have developed the key skills of business consulting, which are applicable to any organisation.
What you'll study
The core Becoming an Effective Business Analysis class runs over both semesters and provides you with a practical environment to apply business analysis and consulting tools from other classes into challenging real problems offered by industrial clients.Semester 1 is designed to provide you with the fundamental technical and soft knowledge required for a business analystconsultant. This includes key skills to structure client problems, analyse hardsoft data, build forecasting models and managing the operations.Semester 2 is designed to extend your core skills and provide you with opportunities through a broad range of electives to help you to have specialised knowledge in areas such as risk analysis, strategy modelling, big data analytics and business simulation. You also have the opportunity to study a business class offered by other departments in Strathclyde Business School during the Spring School.
Accreditation: triple-accredited business school AACSB, EQUIS & AMBA
Study mode and duration: PgDip: 9 months full-time, 21 months part-time
Careers
The combination of the quantitative and qualitative skills learned, along with the real experience of working with various clients problems throughout the course, will make you attractive to employers. By the end of the programme you'll be well placed for a client focussed career by providing model-based decision support to management at a strategic and operational level. For the last decade our graduates have been able to find jobs across different sectors from oil and gas industry, hospitality to junior and senior consultancy roles.