Experiencing the Texas McCombs community firsthand is one of the best ways to gain valuable insight into your fit with our MBA culture. Join us at an on-campus event to meet admissions, current students, and our world-class faculty. For the next two years you will enjoy boundless opportunities to explore, grow, and transform. Youll supercharge your career, expand your professional network, and sharpen your skills to be an influential leader. And youll do it all in Austin, Texas, one of the most dynamic and innovative cities in the U.S. When you graduate, you'll have the knowledge to do anything you can dream. The Full-Time MBA experience at the McCombs School of Business allows you to immerse yourself in learning, exploration, and developing meaningful relationships with your classmates. You'll take classes at Rowling Hall on The University of Texas at Austin campus, and the flexible curriculum gives you the option to specialize in one of 20 concentrations, 14 of which are STEM certified.
The Business Analytics concentration is designed to cater to the growing demand for talent formanaging, analyzing, predicting, and discovering insights from massive amounts of complex data (e.g., transactions, social networks, sensors, etc.) to solve business, social, and economic problems. According to many industry studies (e.g., McKinsey Global Institute), there is a need for 140,000 190,000 professionals with deep business analytics skills and a shortfall of 1.5 million data savvy business managers. This Business Analytics concentration provides a foundation in analytics by bringing together deep expertise in applied statistics, optimization, and decision theory to apply in different contexts, including market basket analysis, consumer behavior, social networks, recommendation systems, fraud and crime detection, healthcare fraud, supply chain, finance, security threats, etc.
