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Business Analytics Minor


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Business Analytics is the use of business data to improve business decision making. The explosion of data is transforming nearly every business function to incorporate data in its retrospective analyses, current decisions and future forecasts. The Business Analytics minor curriculum exposes students to four key learning goals: fundamental frameworks and principles of data analysis, wide exposure to a variety of business analytics applications, hands-on training with modern data analysis toolkits, and the generalizable ability to repeatedly learn and apply challenging mathematical frameworks.

The Business Analytics minor can be declared in combination with any major or minor.

You may declare a minor through Tritonlink by using the Major/ Minor Tool. For more information on how to declare, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

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Declaring the Minor

Students will be able to declare the Business Analytics minor starting in Winter 2025

In order to complete the Business Analytics Minor, students must comply to the following:

  • Take all Business Analytics minor classes for a letter grade.
  • Earn at least a C- in each course used for the minor.
  • Only two lower-division courses (8 units) may be taken for the Business Analytics minor.
  • At least five classes for the minor must be taken at UC San Diego.
  • Finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0
  • You can use two upper-division courses (a maximum of 8 units) to fulfill the requirements for a minor that have also been used to satisfy the requirements of a major. There is no limit for lower-division courses.
  • You can't use an upper-division course to satisfy the requirements of more than one minor.
  • Read the Academic Senate policy on minors (section E).

Find the list of tentative Rady classes for the academic year on the undergraduate webpage.

 

Business Analytics Minor Courses

With the exception of MGT 155, all prerequisites for MGT courses can be found on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes by clicking on the course title. The prerequisite for MGT 155 is posted below.

Required Courses (20 units):

  • MGT 71/R Business Process and Operations Management
  • MGT 108R Applied Market Research
  • MGT 151/151R Business Analytics
  • MGT 153 Information Technology for Business Analytics
  • MGT 155 Advanced Business Analytics
    • Prerequisite: MGT 153 or MGT 151/R


Elective Courses – Choose 2 (8 units)

  • MGT 100 Customer Analytics
  • MGT 137 Financial Statement Analysis
  • MGT 160 Experiments in Firms
  • MGT 171/171R Operations Management
  • MGT 175 Supply Chain Management
  • MGT 176 Strategic Cost Management
  • MGT 177 Analytics and Spreadsheet Modeling
  • DSC 10 Principles of Data Science

Questions?

Current UC San Diego students: Please submit your questions via the VAC and an advisor will respond in 1–3 business days.

Non-UC San Diego students: Email us at undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.