Graduate Certificate in
Business Intelligence and Analytics

The curriculum in this 12-credit online program covers the full spectrum of data collection, data mining and its use in making better business decisions.

In today’s technology-driven business environment, understanding the collection, dissemination, and uses of data is vital to success in any industry.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s graduate certificate program in Business Intelligence and Analytics gives working professionals and students pursuing a career in this dynamic field the foundation they

need to approach, comprehend, and solve problems related to data analytics and business intelligence.

Completing this program will put business professionals on the leading edge of the latest technology, helping them reshape the way the world does business.

DETAILS

About Business Intelligence and Analytics at the Worldwide & Online Campus

The Business Intelligence and Analytics certificate is a 12-credit online program, with a curriculum that covers the full spectrum of data collection, data mining, and its use in making better business decisions.

Students will use analytical strategies to address complex problems, understand data sources and the tools used to collect and analyze them, while also learning how to manipulate databases, interpret

results, and create visualizations that will resonate with a variety of audiences.

Students completing the certificate course can also build credits toward a graduate degree, and those already enrolled in the Master of Science in Management Information Systems can earn a joint certificate.

The Business Intelligence and Analytics Certificate enables students to:

Develop analytics strategies to solve complex business problems

Identify data sources and analysis tools to generate actionable business intelligence
Manipulate data in database form to clean data and prepare it for analysis
Interpret analytics results in the form of infographics, dashboards, and other visualizations useful to a variety of audiences.

Note: Certificate programs are not eligible for Title IV Federal Financial Aid unless taken as part of a degree program.

Business Intelligence and Analytics
Certificate

BUAN 505	Information Analytics and Visualization in Decision Making	3
BUAN 522	Business Analytics, Social Network and Web Analytics	3
BUAN 523	Data Mining for Business Analytics	3
BUAN 524	Applied Business Intelligence and Analytics	3
Total Credits		12

In addition to an ERAU certificate, the above coursework is approved by SAS as part of the SAS Specialization Program. A SAS Digital Badge in Business Intelligence and Analytics will be issued by ERAU and SAS upon completion of this coursework.

Estimated Cost of Attendance

For course descriptions, education requirements, curriculum, and suggested plan of study, please see the Graduate Certificate in Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Worldwide Catalog.