专业：Business Analytics

链接：

https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&edition=2018&id=929

课程设置：
Compulsory courses

Principles of Data Analytics  数据分析原则

Prescriptive Analytics with Mathematical Programming  数学规划的说明性分析

Business Analytics with Heuristics  启发性的商业分析

Predictive Analytics and Modelling of Data  预测分析和数据模型

Dissertation (MSc in Business Analytics)

Course options

Project Management in Business Analysis  商业分析项目管理

Supply Chain Analytics with Games  博弈供应链分析

Business Analytics with Simulation 仿真商业分析

Industrial Analytics  工业分析

Media and Web Analytics 媒体和网络分析

Learning outcomes

General Educational aims are to:

Enable all participants to recognise, understand and apply the language, theory and models of the field of business analytics.

Foster an ability to critically analyse, synthesise and solve complex unstructured business problems.

Encourage an aptitude for business improvement, innovation and entrepreneurial action.

Encourage the sharing of experiences to enhance the benefits of collaborative learning.

Instil a sense of ethical decision-making and a commitment to the long-run welfare of both organisations and the communities that they serve.

Specific Educational aims are to:

Understand and critically apply the concepts and methods of business analytics.

Identify, model and solve decision problems in different settings

Interpret results/solutions and identify appropriate courses of action for a given managerial situation whether a problem or an opportunity.

Create viable solutions to decision making problems.

入学要求：

A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent in an area related to management science, operational research, statistics, econometrics, mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, or business and management with a distinct quantitative content.

Your background should ideally include courses and/or experience gained in topics such as linear algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and computer programming.

If you have a UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent in an unrelated subject we may consider your application if you have relevant work experience.

Work experience is desirable but not mandatory.

Students are required to have their own laptops. In particular, applicants need to ensure that their laptops can run MATLAB

IELTS: total 7.0 (at least 6.0 in each module)