Program Overview
The Business Analytics at Lancaster University - Management School is a MSc programme in Business & Management over 12 months, delivered On-campus. This programme equips graduates with advanced knowledge and practical skills for professional and academic careers in the field.
Students gain a rigorous grounding in both the theoretical foundations and applied dimensions of business & management. The programme combines coursework, research components, and practical projects that develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and specialist expertise relevant to industry and research needs.
Graduates of the Business Analytics programme are well-prepared for careers in academia, industry, government, and the private sector across United Kingdom and internationally. The programme provides an internationally recognised qualification within the Bologna higher education framework.
Key Program Features
- Duration: 12 months
- Language of instruction: English
- Study mode: On-campus
- Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Business Analytics programme are prepared for diverse careers in business & management:
- Business Analyst
- Management Consultant
- Product Manager
- Strategy Analyst
- Operations Manager
- Entrepreneur
Program Curriculum
We continually review and enhance our curriculum to ensure we are delivering the best possible learning experience, and to make sure that the subject knowledge and transferable skills you develop will prepare you for your future. The University will make every reasonable effort to offer programmes and modules as advertised. In some cases, changes may be necessary and may result in new modules or some modules and combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research. Not all optional modules are available every year.
You will take four core modules, one Dissertation module (Research or Industry) and two optional modules.
Core
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Operational Research (OR) is a field that develops and applies analytical methods to improve decision-making about managerial problems. In this module, we focus on:
- translating real-world business problems into quantitative models
- applying quantitative methods and software tools to analyse them.
The module introduces three approaches: optimisation, decision analysis and simulation. You will apply these approaches to examples and case studies, illustrating how you can use the approaches in practice. You will also learn how to:
- implement models in MS Excel and Python
- generate insights and formulate clear recommendations and conclusions based on quantitative models.
This module introduces the topic of forecasting in business organisations. You will engage with issues concerned with forecasting model building in regression and its extensions, building on material covered earlier in your degree programme. You will then consider extrapolative forecasting methods, particularly Exponential Smoothing, and Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence methods, particularly Neural Networks.
You will engage with a case study about forecasting in organisations, which embeds all the methods covered in this module. The module ends by analysing how forecasting is applied to operations and how forecasting can be improved in an organisational context.
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Admission Requirements
Academic Requirements
You need the following GPA score:
Applicants for graduate programs must have the equivalent of a bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree with a minimum GPA equivalent to Upper Second Class on the UK Honour scale. Admitted applicants typically have an undergraduate GPA of or better on the UK Honour scale. No exam grade should be lower than 4.5 (European grade scale) or D (American grade scale).
Your GPA (Grade Point Average) is calculated using the grades that you received in each course, and is determined by the points assigned to each grade (e.g. for the US grading scale from A-F).
Tuition & Financial Information
Detailed tuition information is not available. Please contact the university for the most current tuition and fee information.
Application Deadline
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About Lancaster University - Management School
Lancaster University - Management School
Lancaster, United Kingdom
Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is the business school of Lancaster University in Lancaster, England. The school's history can be traced back to the establishment of departments of...
University Profile- Language English
- Duration 12 months