Minor in Business Analytics

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The objective of a Business Analytics minor is to give both Business and Non-Business students in-demand analytics skills focused on business problems. Students will gain skills in advanced Excel, Tableau, and SQL and learn a framework for moving from business problems to data-driven solutions. A Business Analytics minor should prove useful to students who wish to focus on the quantitative aspects of business. 

Students wishing to complete the Business Analytics minor must complete the coursework described under the Degree Requirements tab.

Program Delivery

  • This is an on-campus program.

Declaring This Minor

  • To declare the Business Analytics minor, students must have a 3.0 GPA, either cumulative or from their last 24 completed semester hours. 

General Requirements

Students must satisfy all requirements outlined below and by the department offering the minor.

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Program Requirements 

  1. Students must maintain or exceed a 2.0 GPA to graduate with the minor. 
  2. A student must take 12 of the 15 hours of required business courses in the minor while in residence at the University of Colorado Denver. If a student has already taken the equivalent of one or more of these courses at another university, other higher-level business courses may be substituted with the approval of the Business School.
  3. Students must have declared the Business Analytics minor to register for any of the upper-division Business School courses or petition separately to take each of these courses. 

Course List

Code

Title

Hours

Required Classes

 

BANA 2010

Business Statistics

3

BANA 3000

Operations Management

3

BANA 4110

Business Analytics Process (added)

3

BANA 4120

Forecasting Techniques

3

Select one of the following: 1

3

FNCE 4480

Introduction to Financial Modeling

 

ISMG 4400

Programming Fundamentals with Python (edited)

 

ISMG/FNCE 4750

Business Intelligence and Financial Modeling

 

MATH 3376

Data Wrangling & Visualization

 

MKTG 3100

Marketing Research

 

Total Hours

15

Can be from the list above or any other upper-division BANA course.