The Master of Science in Business Analytics programme at the HKU Business School offers a comprehensive curriculum that aims to help students develop both hard and soft skills related to business analytics throughout the programme. Our students will learn the knowledge and skills of understanding data, transforming data into information and converting information into executable actions.
There is currently an unprecedented industry demand for business analytics professionals, and the school offers an extensive range of elective options to allow students to proceed in many specific focus areas.
The programme boasts a real world business analytics project - The Capstone Project - with reputable corporations in the region, in which students apply newly-learned analytics knowledge and skills to a real life business problem facing our project sponsors.
Students need to complete a total of ten courses. Students may choose to concentrate in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) stream or the Management Consulting (MC) stream by fulfilling the required course requirements. Up to two elective courses may be taken from other taught postgraduate programmes offered by the School.
Entrance Requirements
1. A recognized Bachelor's degree or equivalent;
2. Statements from two referees; and
3. A TOEFL/IELTS* score if you are not from an English teaching university.
*A minimum score of 550 (paper-based test) or 80 (internet-based test) in TOEFL, or a minimum overall band of 6 with no subtest lower than 5.5 in IELTS is required.
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