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2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Business Information Systems, Business Data Analytics Concentration, B.B.A.

The Business Information Systems in Business Data Analytics concentration exposes students to analytics practices associated with Big Data in the business world.  The program explores such key areas as the data extraction and preparation, data is creation and storage, merging and grouping data, modeling and model evaluations. Both supervised and unsupervised techniques will be addressed.

Requirements for the BBA Degree - 120 Credit Hours Total

Business Core:

The Business Core and the freshman and sophomore years are common for all students majoring in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Information Systems and Economics/Finance.

Suggested Four-Year Plan

Freshman Year

Fall Semester

Total:16

Spring Semester

Total:16

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

Total: 16

Spring Semester

Total: 15

Junior Year

Fall Semester

Total: 15

Spring Semester

Total: 15

Senior Year

Fall Semester

Total: 15

Spring Semester

Total:12

* These courses must be chosen from the University’s approved list of general education courses. 

** Students that do not have an equivalent course must take the listed course as elective. An equivalent elective can be taken from Computer Science with a prior approval from the Chair of BIS.

BISI/BISE (Electives may be selected from the following list for the BISI Business Data Analytics Concentration.) 

BISI 3610 Introduction to Relational Databases

BISI 3620 Relational Data Administration

BISI 4360 Applied Information Technology

BISI 4364 Network Security and Administration

BISI 4410 Web Site Development

BISI 4550 Project Management

BISI 4800 Internship

BISI 4810/4820 Seminar in Information Systems

BISI 4990 Independent Study