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Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions Concentration

Helps professionals gain a competitive advantage through the sound use of data resources. Courses offer a solid grounding in applied statistical methods, emphasizing use of appropriate software tools. Students also have an opportunity to see how these methods are used in current practice in a particular business area. Exposure to real data takes place in concentration courses, an optional internship, and other graduate courses where students with quantitative skills contribute to group consulting projects.




Required Course

ST 625

Quantitative Analysis for Business and Finance

Elective Courses--Select three
To focus your concentration in either Business Data Analysis, Quantitative Methods or Quantitative Finance, consult the concentration advisor for appropriate course selection.

At least one from the following methodology courses:

EC 621

Business and Economic Forecasting

MA 611

Analysis of Financial Time Series

MA 631

Mathematical Foundation of Quantitative Finance

ST 635

Intermediate Statistical Modeling for Business

Plus two more courses from the above list or the following applications:

CS 603

Object Oriented Application Development

CS 605

Data Management and Systems Modeling

CS 753

Data Warehousing and Data Mining

EC 611

Business Conditions Analysis

EC 631

Market Structure and Firm Strategy

FI 635

Fixed Income Valuation and Strategies

EC 640

Equity Valuation

FI 645

Derivatives

ID 790

International Short-Term Program*

MA 639

Asset Valuation and Derivative Pricing

MA 710

Data Mining

MA 731

Applied Modeling

MK 711

Marketing Research and Analysis

MK 726

Customer Data Analysis and Relationship Marketing

ST 701

Internship in Business Data Analysis

*Needs approval from Concentration Coordinator. If approved, the course paper must be focused in the area of the concentration.

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