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Business Analytics Minor (RSM-MN-008)

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 combined with any major or minor, except for the Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain minor.

To assist with your planning and to review course descriptions, click on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes on Rady’s undergraduate webpage.

Important Policies:

  • All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better. Students must finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0 or higher.
  • Students may overlap 8 upper division units between their major and minor. There is no restriction for overlapping lower-division units.
  • Upper-division courses are not permitted to overlap between minors. Only lower-division courses are permitted to overlap.
  • A minimum of 5 courses for the Business Analytics minor must be taken at UC San Diego.

 

Declaring the Minor

The Business Analytics minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree, except students pursuing a minor in Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain. There is no separate admissions process. We encourage students to declare the minor as soon as possible, to ensure you are meeting all program requirements. In addition, Rady sends important information regarding class offerings and policy changes to our minor students through our minor list.

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.

Minor Requirements

REQUIRED CORE: 5 COURSES (20 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT-071/R Business Process and Operations Management None
MGT-108R Applied Market Research None
MGT-151A
or MGT-151R		 Business Analytics MATH AND STATISTICS

MATH:
MATH-010A or MATH-018 or MATH-020A or MATH-031AH

AND

STATISTICS: BENG-100 or BIEB-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-181A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187
MGT-153 Information Technology for Business Analytics MATH AND STATISTICS

MATH:
MATH-010A or MATH-018 or MATH-020A or MATH-031AH

AND

STATISTICS: BENG-100 or BIEB-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-181A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187
MGT-155 Advanced Business Analytics MGT-151A or MGT-151R or MGT-153

 

ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 2 COURSES (8 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
DSC-010 Principles of Data Science None
MGT-100 Customer Analytics ECON-120A or BENG-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187. ECON-120A recommended.
MGT-119:
Preapproved Topics Only		 Topics in Business Pre-approved Topics Only:
  • Data Analytics for Event Management
Students must send the Rady School of Management a VAC message to have this course added to their Business Analytics minor on their degree audit.
MGT-127R AI & Technology Strategy None
MGT-137 Financial Statement Analysis MGT-045
OR BOTH
ECON/MGT-004 AND
MGT-005
MGT-159T Topics in Analytics MGT-151A or MGT-151R or MGT-153.

*Prerequisites are waived for Spring 2026. Submit an EASy Request to request preauthorization to enroll.
MGT-160 Experiments in Firms MATH AND STATISTICS

MATH:
MATH-010A or MATH-018 or MATH-020A or MATH-031AH

AND

STATISTICS: BENG-100 or BIEB-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-181A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187
MGT-171/R Operations Management None
MGT-175 Supply Chain Management None
MGT-176 Strategic Cost Management None
MGT-177 Analytics and Spreadsheet Modeling MGT-153

 

Questions? UCSD students must contact Rady Undergrad Advising through the VAC vac.ucsd.edu. Non-UCSD students can send an email to undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.

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.