Data Analytics for Business Professionals
Build your data literacy using an analytic framework to help you solve real-world business challenges with data science solutions.
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Advance Your Career the UChicago Way
The University of Chicago’s professional development certificate in Data Analytics for Business Professionals enables students to make sound business decisions with data-driven insights in as little as six months, part-time. Combining case studies with software tools, the online program with synchronous sessions is focused on building superior technical communication skills that enable students to manage analytics teams, translate analysis into evidence-based business objectives, and accelerate their careers.
Designed For
Designed for business professionals ready to use data analysis to improve the way they do business and accelerate their careers.
What Do Data Analytics Students Learn?
- How to construct a project plan
- The fundamentals of statistical software and data maintenance
- The essentials of analytic management that drive project success
- How to turn challenges into data science solutions and build executable business plans
- The technical communication skills necessary to manage analytics teams and translate analysis into business objectives
Uncover Your Data Acumen at UChicago
By Professionals for Professionals
The instructors for UChicago’s Professional Development Certificate courses are active practitioners in their industries—giving their students bleeding-edge insights from the fast-paced world of business.
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A Built-in Extensive Network
Accelerate your career with an extensive alumni community.
Flexible Formats, Competitive Costs
Affordable part-time courses that work around your schedule.
Career Outlook
The World Economic Forum forecasts that machines will perform the majority of business tasks by 2025. The rapid evolution of machines and algorithms in the workplace could create 133 million new roles in place of seventy-five million that will be displaced between now and 2022. Employers in this swiftly changing landscape favor candidates with strong programming and applied data science backgrounds.
Data analytics and data science jobs hold a top-three spot on Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America for 2021. An appealing $113,000 median base salary, the ability to work in various industries, and consistent sector growth keep data scientists desired in the job market.
University of Chicago Approach to Online Learning
Our online learning programs are crafted with your specific needs in mind. Live, interactive sessions strengthen your skill set, coupling rigorous theory and the latest research with real-world applications. You will have the opportunity to grow your professional network among University of Chicago instructors and classmates.
Even if they don’t have the answers, the program will show students what it means to conceptualize solutions and give them insight into solving problems using data that they wouldn’t have otherwise.