Business Analytics (with placement year) BSc (Hons)

Loughborough University

Our BSc (Hons) Business Analytics course addresses the growing demand for skilled graduates who can use analysis to help businesses make better evidence-based decisions, and manage information and data to maximise performance.Analytics is used all around us. The World Economic Forum predicts that data analytics will be the main driver of the fourth industrial revolution, impacting all sectors of the economy. The Loughborough BSc in Business Analytics gives you a thorough understanding of the opportunities and challenges brought by data-driven, evidence-based decision making in organisations and industries, and helps you understand how to integrate this specialist knowledge with general business and management skills.Our BSc Business Analytics course equips you with sought after skills for a variety of career paths with high levels of responsibility. At Loughborough we excel at teaching quantitative skills and decision sciences, emphasising management science methods, data analysis, performance evaluation, forecasting and simulation, programming, and using data for analytics. During your studies you will sharpen your skills using practical projects, presentations and group work, equipping you with valuable transferable skills. The programme is designed to open up a range of highly rewarding career options in areas such as business development, consultancy, financial services, marketing and retail analytics, healthcare analytics, and public service.Knowledge of methods alone is not sufficient for success. Employability skills are a key part of the Loughborough experience and, coupled with our award-winning Careers Network, we have modules specifically designed to help you develop your study and employability skills. For those that want to start their own businesses, there are also modules in entrepreneurship.