MBA Business Analytics

Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune (Also known as: SCMHRD Pune)

The courses in the MBA Analytics programme are designed with active participation by people in the industry working with Analytics and Big Data. In addition, all courses are taught by the people in the industry who helped design the courses from a holistic perspective

The programme is built on a solid foundation of programming in R and Python - the de facto standards for statistical computing and analysis. Students are also given a strong grounding in using SPSS and SAS with various add-on packages. Data visualization software like Tableau features strongly in the programme. All courses have a solid lab component with case studies provided by experts from the industry. Courses include cutting edge technologies like the Internet of Things and Mobile Analytics.

The courses are designed and taught in a way that will give an appreciation for various functions encountered in a real-life Analytics situation - the interplay between Marketing, Risk, Operations, HR, and Finance... Students get hands-on learning about how these processes are interlinked.

The increasing availability of data has meant that management decisions can be backed up with solid analytical facts about the data. Tools that were once the exclusive domain of statisticians are now increasingly available to dissect and explore data to expose patterns that are invaluable in decision making.