Business Analytics and Data Science: Cybersecurity Analytics, MS

Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about Graduate College Academic Regulation 7.0.

Total Hours: 38 (33 for part-time and distance MS Business Analytics and Data Science students)

Required Core Courses
BAN 5400Practicum in Business Analytics 12
BAN 5560Business Analytics Research and Communications (Research and Communications I) 11
BAN 5570Business Analytics Research and Communications II 12
BAN 5733Descriptive Business Analytics3
BAN 5743Predictive Business Analytics3
BAN 5753Advanced Business Analytics3
MSIS 5503Statistics for Data Science3
or STAT 5013 Statistics for Experimenters I
MSIS 5193Programming for Data Science and Analytics I3
MSIS 5663Advanced Data Wrangling3
Hours Subtotal23
Required Option Courses
MSIS 5213Cybersecurity Systems Management3
MSIS 5203Advanced Infrastructure Development3
Hours Subtotal6
Electives
Required Option Electives
Select 6 hours from the following or other courses as approved by the program director:6
Information Technology Forensics and Incident Response
Advanced System Certification and Accreditation
Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Technology
Scripting Essentials
Select 3 hours from the following or other courses as approved by program director.3
MBA Financial Reporting
Strategic Marketing and Business Analytics
Advanced Marketing Research Analytics
Advanced Practicum in Business Analytics
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems
Big Data Management
Big Data Analytics
Managerial Economics
CIE Scholar Practicum
Business Finance
Survey of Health Care Administration
Health Care Informatics
Introduction to Optimization
Network Optimization
Discrete System Simulation
Advanced Production and Inventory Control
Marketing Management
Base SAS Programming for Database Marketing
Advanced SAS Programming for Marketing Analytics
Enterprise Resource Planning
Prescriptive Analytics
Advanced Data Science Applications
Predictive Analytics Technologies
Descriptive Analytics and Visualization
Advanced Analytics Technologies
Time Series Analysis
Statistical Machine Learning with R
Categorical Data Analysis
Bayesian Analysis
Theory of Linear Models I
Multivariate Analysis
Other courses as approved by program director.
Hours Subtotal9
Total Hours38
1

Waived for part-time and distance MS Business Analytics and Data Science students.

Graduate College Master's Program Requirements

Learn more about Graduate College 2025-2026 Master’s Degree Program Requirements. Check the General Graduate College academic regulations for minimal GPA, language proficiency and other general requirements.