Business Analytics (MS)

The M.S. program in Business Analytics (MSBA) offered by the IEOR Department in partnership with Columbia Business School. This program is formed and structured following many interactions with corporations, alumni, and students. It emphasizes on developing new insights and understanding of business performance using data, statistical and quantitative analysis, and explanatory and predictive modeling to help make actionable decisions and to improve business operations. Students pursuing this degree program are provided with rigorous exposure to optimization and stochastic modeling, and a deep coverage of applications in the areas of analytics. The role of analytics has grown increasingly critical in business, health care, government, and many other sectors of the economy.

It is a 36-credit degree STEM-designated program (equivalent of 12 three-credit courses), assuming adequate preparation in probability and statistics, with students taking at least six courses (18 credits) within the IEOR Department, and four to six courses (12–18 credits) at the Business School. The remaining courses, if any, can be taken at the School of Engineering, the School of International and Public Affairs, the Law School, or the Departments of Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics. Additional details are available on the MSBA website at msba.engineering.columbia.edu/content/curriculum.

Required Core Courses (18 points)

  • IEOR E4004 OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS (first fall semester)
  • IEOR E4101 PROBABILITY STAT ＆ SIMULATION (first fall semester)
  • IEOR E4502 Python for Analytics (0pt, first fall semester)
  • IEOR E4523 DATA ANALYTICS (fall semester)
  • ENGI E4000 PROF DEVELOPMENT＆LEADERSHIP (0 pt, first fall semester, year long)
  • IEOR E4650 BUSINESS ANALYTICS (spring semester)
  • IEOR E4524 ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE (spring semester)
  • IEOR E4599 MSBA Quantitative Bootcamp (0 pt)
  • MKRT B9651 Marketing Analytics (first fall semester)

Concentration Courses (9 points)

Financial Analytics & Financial Technology (FinTech) 

Choose nine points from the following:

  • IEOR E4106 STOCHASTIC MODELS
  • IEOR E4500 APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE
  • IEOR E4525 MACHINE LEARNING FE ＆ OPR
  • IEOR E4574 TOPICS IN OR (1.5 points)
  • IEOR E4742 Deep Learning for OR and FE
  • IEOR E4725 Topics in Quantitative Finance: Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equation
  • MRKT B8649 Pricing strategies1
  • DROM B8106 Operations Strategy
  • DROM B8116 Risk Management
  • DROM B8510 MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS/MGMT B8510 Managerial negotiations1
  • MRKT B8776 Foundations of innovation1
  • DROM B8816 Quantitative Pricing ＆ Revenue
  • DROM B9122 Computing for business research1​
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Marketing Analytics 

Choose nine points from the following:

  • IEOR E4407 GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION
  • IEOR E4506 DESIGN DIGITAL OPERATING MODELS
  • IEOR E4312 Application of OR ＆ AI Techniques in Marketing
  • IEOR E4562 Innovate Using Design Thinking
  • IEOR E4601 DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT
  • DROM B8122 Game-theoretic business strategy1
  • DROM B8123 Demand Analytics
  • DROM B8131 Sports Analytics
  • DROM B8510 MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS/MGMT B8510 Managerial negotiations1
  • MRKT B8607 Strategic consumer insights1
  • MRKT B8608 New product development1
  • MRKT B8617 Marketing research and analytics1
  • MRKT B8623 Intro to product management (1.5)1
  • MRKT B8625 Winning strategic capabilities1
  • MRKT B8679 Digital marketing1
  • MRKT B8681 Advanced marketing strategy1
  • MRKT B8683 Marketing models1
  • DROM B9122 Computing for business research1
  • DROM B9127 Online marketplaces1
  • MRKT B9613 Mathematical models in marketing1
  • MRKT B9656 Customer management: concepts and tools (1.5)1​
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Information on courses administered by Columbia Business School can be found here. 

Healthcare Analytics

Choose nine points from the following:

  • IEOR E4108 SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS/DROM B8108 Supply chain management
  • IEOR E4405 PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
  • IEOR E4505 OPERATION RES IN PUBLIC POLICY
  • IEOR E4507 HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT
  • IEOR E4520 APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
  • IEOR E4521 SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS
  • IEOR E4540 DATA MINING
  • DROM B8105 Healthcare analytics (1.5)1
  • DROM B8107 Service Operations Management
  • DROM B8128 Healthcare investment and entrepreneurship HCIT and services1
  • DROM B8132 Digital health care systems1
  • DROM B8510 MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS/MGMT B8510 Managerial negotiations1
  • MRKT B8692 Pharmaceutical drug commercialization: strategy & practice (1.5)1
  • DROM B8832 U.S. health care system1
  • MRKT B9656 Customer management: concepts and tools (1.5)1​
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Information on courses administered by Columbia Business School can be found here. 

Analytics Algorithms & Methodology

Choose nine points from the following:

  • IEOR E4008 COMPUTATION DISCRETE OPT
  • COMS W4111 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES
  • CSOR W4231 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
  • IEOR E4407 GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION
  • IEOR E4418 TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS ＆ LOGISTICS
  • IEOR E4525 MACHINE LEARNING FE ＆ OPR
  • IEOR E4526 ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD
  • IEOR E4540 DATA MINING
  • DROM B8110 Game-Theoretic Business Strategy
  • DROM B8111 Analytics for business research1
  • DROM B8127 Big immersion seminar—big data (1.5 pts)1
  • DROM B8130 Applied statistics and data analytics1
  • MRKT B9160 Applied multivariate statistics1
  • MRKT B9608 Experimental design & analysis for behavioral research1
  • MRKT B9616 Bayesian modeling & computation1
  • MRKT B9652 MS marketing models1
  • MRKT B9653 MS machine learning (1.5)1
  • MRKT B9654 MS artificial intelligence1
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Information on courses administered by Columbia Business School can be found here.