Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
Business & Management
A course by
University of Waikato
Get the technical know-how to use analytics tools and transform big data into valuable business insights in just 9 months with this practical graduate certificate by the University of Waikato.
Blended study
This is a mix of online learning & face-to-face sessions
Hamilton, Hamilton
It will take a total of 9 months
Core skills this course teaches
Extract business value from data
Graduates can extract business value from multiple data sources to inform and drive better decisions.
Present and visualise meaningful insights
Be able to visualise and present information clearly, aiding organisational decision-making.
Use contemporary business analytics tools
Apply a range of modern business analytics software and tools for data analysis, reporting, and forecasting.
What You're Signing Up For
The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics at the University of Waikato is a short, hands-on programme designed for graduates and professionals to develop skills in using modern analytics tools and transforming extensive business data into meaningful insights. Delivered flexibly, the course covers all aspects of business analytics, including data mining, analysis, visualisation, reporting, prediction, and real-world applications, leveraging leading software tools such as Google BigQuery, Excel, Power BI and Tableau. Graduates will be equipped to solve business problems using analytics in a variety of organisational settings.
Course Content
- BUSAN205 Data Analytics with Business Applications: Introduction to data analytical methods and their application in business and economics.
- BUSAN300 Management of Big Data: Big data fundamentals, management, cloud platforms, Python, Google BigQuery, SQL and NoSQL.
- BUSAN301 Contemporary Tools for Business Analytics: Hands-on experience with tools like Google BigQuery, Microsoft BI, Tableau, Azure ML.
- BUSAN302 Data-Informed Decision Making: Data wrangling, visualisation, machine learning techniques, prediction, R, DAX, Excel, SPSS.
- Practical labs and real-world business scenarios.
- Ethics in data collection and Māori data sovereignty.
What you need to know first
A bachelor's degree in any subject with at least a B-minus average in 300-level papers.
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Business
Analytics and Data Science
Management
Future employment opportunities might be
Analytics & Insights Manager
Business Analyst / Consultant
Customer Insights Analyst