MSc Business Analytics with Professional Practice

Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Learn how to harness the power of data to drive business success on our MSc Business Analytics, preparing you for a range of in-demand jobs. This MSc in Business Analytics with Professional Practice allows you to develop not only a solid academic underpinning to support your career but also builds in a semester long professional internship to develop practical, in-industry skills. The combination of the theoretical and the practical leaves you with the ideal mix of experiences that employers are looking for. Our flexible course blends general management topics such as strategy, leadership and project management with data analytics subjects including soft systems methodology, statistics, coding, database management and data visualisation. Available to study full time, this course equips you with the skills to structure, integrate, and analyse qualitative and quantitative data to formulate effective business solutions. With businesses generating vast amounts of data both internally and externally in today’s data-rich environment, there are great career opportunities for those who can understand this data and leverage it to create business insights and enhance business processes and practices.