Business Analytics Minor

The business analytics minor is available to degree-seeking students admitted to the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. The minor provides an opportunity for students specializing in one of the functional areas in business to gain additional skills that will prepare them for data-driven and analytics-based decision making.

Students undertaking this minor will be exposed to courses in descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Students will also be able to take electives that will apply analytic tools specialized to various functional areas like finance, marketing, and information systems.

Graduates will be prepared to interact with specialized data scientists and bring the insights from the large amounts of data being produced in the market place to their functional areas.

As business analytics emerges in the market across a variety of functional areas (information systems, marketing, finance, human capital, etc.), the demand for this skill set is envisioned to cut across all undergraduate business majors, making a minor in business analytics paired with a functional major ideal.