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Business Data Analytics 3+2


120 Undergraduate Credit Hours and 30 Graduate Credit Hours


The Business Data Analytics 3+2 program provides both traditional undergraduate and online learners an opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in business. The overall goal of the program is to offer a quality, flexible degree completion curriculum that:

  • Affirms Christian values and beliefs;
  • Equips students to utilize leadership, management, and business principles;
  • Develops written and oral communication skills;
  • Instills a commitment to be critically reflective, self-directed, life-long learners;
  • Promotes an appreciation of the global environment of business;
  • Helps students better adapt to technological and cultural change; and
  • Empowers students to work effectively as individuals and as team members.

Graduation Requirements


Program Learning Outcomes


“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

  1. Students will understand the language, theory, and models of the field of business analytics
  2. Students will apply their knowledge to analyze and solve complex structured and unstructured business problems
  3. Students will appraise results and solutions from analytic processes for decision making
  4. Students will evaluate business processes for continuous improvement and innovation opportunity
  5. Students will integrate a Christian worldview into the design of business analytics systems development and implementation.

Undergraduate Requirements


Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined below.

NOTE: Students must earn 42 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.

Visit this program’s information page for additional program-specific requirements.

Faith, Roots and Reason


Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined below.

NOTE: Students must earn 42 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.

Visit this program’s information page for additional program-specific requirements.

Required Business Core - 48 Credit Hours


  • ACG 2013 - Financial Accounting
  • ACG 2023 - Managerial Accounting
  • BUS 1183 - Introduction to Business
  • BUS 2343 - Principles of Macroeconomics (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Social Science requirement)
  • BUS 2353 - Principles of Microeconomics
  • BUS 3053 - Business Research Methods
  • BUS 3193 - Business Law 1
  • BUS 4303 - Business Strategies
  • BUF 2173 - Principles of Finance
  • BUI 3633 - Global Business (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Global Studies Requirement)
  • BUM 2183 - Principles of Management
  • BUM 4053 - Leadership & Ethics
  • BUR 2153 - Principles of Marketing
  • MAT 1853 - College Algebra (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Mathematics requirement)
  • MAT 2003 - Elementary Statistics
  • CSC 2133 - Introduction to Information Systems

Business Data Analytics 3+2 Requirements


  • MAT 1803 - Survey of Finite Mathematics
  • CSC 2203 - Programming I
  • CSC 2603 - Database Systems
  • BUS 3613 - Data Analysis
  • ECO 4013 - Econometrics
  • BUS 4843 - Business Data Analytics