StudyQA — Master: Data Analytics

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A business engineer has a thorough knowledge of the discipline of business administration and technology, i.e. technological products and processes. In this respect, a business engineer may act as a mediator between technical and businiess economic psoitions to conduct data analysis, modelling and decision-making. He is trained to develop and implement business solutions starting from a model to a business process. The Master of Science in Business Engineering is a programme in business administration that focuses on the following subdisciplines: Management science, Business processes and Technology. These three subdisciplines are educated throughout the two-year master programme in different manners through theoretical lectures, practical case studies and business games as well as guest speakers and company projects.

Where the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering mainly lays the (quantitative) foundation, the master programme studies different aspects of these subdisciplines in a more applied manner. The specific content of the study that links business analytics and business processes with technology helps to translate processes into business models and organisational structures into information systems. Business operations within a single company and between companies in a supply chain, that encompass processes and the logistical flow of products, services and/or information, are studied thoroughly by data analysis techniques, conceptual or mathematical modelling techniques and techniques of decision making. These tools support the efficient organisation of resources in companies towards its common goals and objectives.

The discipline Data Analytics mainly emphasises ‘Business Intelligence’ and refers to the analysis of business data to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations and other useful information that can be used to make better business decisions. McKinsey and Gartner claim that there is an enormous shortage of graduates in this field. Due to the more quantitative schooling of business engineers, emphasis is placed on price-fixing, analytical customer management systems (analytical Customer Relationship Management = aCRM), predictive and prescriptive analytics as well as more recent evolutions in Big Data, social media and web analysis.

General Courses

Strategic Management
Environmental Technology
Human Resources Management [en, nl]
System Dynamics
Business Skills [en, nl]
Business-to-business Marketing
Managing Service Organisations
Implementation and Management of ICT within an Organisation
Innovation and Technology Management
Business Process Management
Financing High Tech Entrepreneurial Companies
High Tech Marketing
Master's Dissertation

Courses Related to the Main Subject

Social Media and Web Analytics
Analytical Customer Relationship Management
Pricing and Revenue Management
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Big Data

Elective Advanced Courses

Investment Analysis
Financial Risk Management
Financial Planning
Advanced Investment Analysis
Valuation and Financial Risk Management
Advanced Production Management
Total Quality Management
Decision Making for Business
Supply Chain Management
Bayesian Statistics
Econometrics: Time Series Analysis
International Business Cases in IT
Project-based Systems Analysis and Design
Service Implementation
Work Placement [nl]
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data Science
Clean Technology
Discrete Algorithms
Rational Use of Materials
Heuristics and Search Methods
Methods Engineering and Work Measurement
Information Management [nl]
Information Technology and Data Processing
Machine Learning
Network Modelling and Design
Project Management
Quality Engineering and Industrial Statistics
Queueing Theory
Simulation of Manufacturing and Service Systems
Software Architecture
Software Management
Total Plant Automation

Elective General Courses

Economics of Banking
Economics of Financial Markets
Advanced Econometrics: Non-linear Methods
Microeconomics: Decision Theory [nl]
Monetary Economics
Insurances [nl]
Audit
Management Control
Taxation
Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
Market Research Methods
Corporate Social Responsibility [nl]
Ethics, Engineering and Society [nl]
Health Economics [nl]
Economic Analysis of Law [nl]

Elective Courses Academic Teacher Education

The Teacher within School and Society [nl]
Interaction and Communication in the Classroom [nl]
Classroom Management and Reflection
Powerful Learning Environments [nl]
Psychology of Adolescence

Requirements

The course is open to students with at least a bachelor's degree
Reference letters
A TOEFL-TEST with a minimum score of 90 (internet-based). Test participants should specify the "institution code" 2643 for UGent and 0749 for KULeuven, so that the score can be sent directly to the university.
An original 'academic test report form' (TRF) from IELTS with a minimum overall band score of 7.0.
A certificate awarded by the Ghent University Language Centre confirming proficiency in English, CEF-level B2
Certificate Practical English 5, Upper-Intermediate Academic English or Preparing for an English test, issued by the Ghent University Language Centre.
Cambridge-ESOL: First certificate in English (FCE)
Enrollment fee of Ghent University for academic year 2016-2017 is 890 € for EER-students and students from OESO-DAC-list (developing countries), all other students pay an enrollment fee of 5330 €