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As individuals and in teams, you learn by doing.
Required Practicum
Enhance your skills by completing a comprehensive project using real-world data to solve complex business problems. In your final semester, you will work on a capstone project with an emphasis on using data to drive the decision-making process through the use of analytical techniques and storytelling.
Certifications
Take your skills to the next level by preparing for recognized credentials. Industry certifications highlight an overall mastery of a specific role and are a great way for employers to identify the most highly qualified candidates for jobs and projects. While a “good” analytics professional will develop a proficiency in one tool or platform, a “great” analytics professional can apply core methodologies across a variety of industry standard tools.
Below are some of the industry certifications for which you can prepare while enrolled in the Online MSBA program.
Certification | Why It Matters: |
|---|---|
| Validate your ability to apply the techniques and tools required for effective participation in big data and other analytics projects. | |
| Master data science, learn Python and SQL, analyze and visualize data, and build machine learning models. | |
| Google Data Analytics | Learn job-ready skills that are in demand, like how to analyze and process data to gain key business insights. |
| Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate | Learn to provide easy-to-understand data visualizations that can help drive the success of your team and organization. |
| Microsoft DP-203 Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure | Demonstrate subject matter expertise integrating, transforming and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into a structure that is suitable for building analytics solutions. |
| Learn key functional and technical skills, combining online courses with hands-on labs, concluding in a final capstone project. | |
| Achieve multiple credentials that recognize the skills, expertise and real-world knowledge of today’s cloud specialists. | |
| Demonstrate and validate your programming skills. | |
| Snowflake Snowpro Core | Demonstrate knowledge to apply core expertise implementing and migrating to Snowflake. |
| Achieve advanced functionality and application of data visualization best practices. | |
| Gain comprehensive functionality and product expertise. | |
| Establish foundational functionality and product comprehension. |
What do employers want?
Employers need strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Foundational technical skills may be important, but candidates’ ability to attack a problem with creativity, insight and curiosity is what makes them stand out.
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