Data Analytics Major Requirements

Data Analytics Major

(62 credits)

The data analytics major is divided into core requirements and electives. Also, students wanting to emphasize a particular field of analytics may select one concentration from various options. The following are core requirements (normally taken in the following years; order of courses to be taken should be discussed with an advisor).

 First-Year

• BUAD 142 Computer Applications in Business
• CSCI 110 Introduction to Computer Programming
• DATA 101 Introduction to Data Analytics
• MATH 128 (fall semester), then BUAD 284 Statistics for Business and Economics (spring semester) or MATH 221
  Statistics in the Sciences (spring)
• MATH 131 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 1 (Math 128 as prerequisite), or MATH 132 Calculus and Analytical
  Geometry 2 (4 cr), or MATH 233 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 3

Sophomore Year

• BUAD 210 Business Ethics
• BUAD 233 Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• CSCI 205 Software Engineering and Elementary Data Structures
• DATA 201/CSCI 201 Data Analytics 
• DATA 202 Data Analytics II
• ECON 101 Principles of Macroeconomics or ECON 102 Principles of Microeconomics
• MATH 203 Linear Algebra

Junior Year

• BUAD 372 Marketing Research (Note: BUAD 372 has a prerequisite of BUAD 270) or BUAD 333 Operations Management or ECON 402 Solving Social & Economic Problems with Data
• CSCI 330 Database Techniques and Modeling (fall, even years)
• DATA 301 Data Wrangling
• ECON 325 Econometrics (fall), Note: ECON 325 has a prerequisite of ECON 101 or ECON 102

Senior Year

• DATA 400 Data Practicum Capstone
• ECON 326 Advanced Econometrics