The Business Analytics Specialization prepares graduates to apply statistical, computing, and economics methods to help corporate managers make better business decisions. Students work with real world business data from marketing, economics, finance, human resource management, supply chain management, etc. and analyze it using descriptive, predictive and prescriptive business analytics methods. The program utilizes the latest business analytics software to manage data, develop visualization, and perform statistical and machine learning analysis.
Graduation Requirements
The following special rules apply to students seeking the BSBA major:
Students must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.25 in-the-major coursework to be eligible for a degree. In addition, the department requires a minimum GPA of 2.25 in the upper-division component of the in-the-major total.
Transfer students must complete at least 40 College of Business credits at CWU to be eligible for the BSBA degree, including MGT 489. Additionally, students seeking a Human Resource Management specialization must complete HRM 486 at CWU and students seeking a Marketing specialization must complete MKT 470 at CWU.
The BSBA program requires a single specialization of at least 25 credits. Occasionally a student requests a second specialization. To be eligible for a second specialization, a minimum of 20 unique credits must be completed. Unique in this sense means the credits have not been used as part of any other BSBA specialization.
Repeat Policy
Business administration courses may be repeated only once.