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Graduate and Pharmacy Catalog 2023-2024 
    
Graduate and Pharmacy Catalog 2023-2024

Business Data Analytics 3+2

Location(s): West Palm Beach Campus (Day)


120 Undergraduate Credit Hours and 30 Graduate Credit Hours


The Business Data Analytics 3+2 program provides students an opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MS in business data analytics. 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.

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


The Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Mathematics, Global Studies, and Social Science requirements are fulfilled through other courses in this major. Only 31 of the 43 credit hours of the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) program will still be required for the completion of this program.

Business Data Analytics - 99 Credit Hours


Required Business Core - 51 Credit Hours


  • MAT 1853 - College Algebra (fulfills the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Mathematics requirement) 3 Credit Hours
  • MAT 2003 - Elementary Statistics
  • 3 Credit Hours
  • 3 Credit Hours
  • BUS 1001 - Business Fundamentals 1 Credit Hour
  • BUS 2001 - Why Business? 1 Credit Hour
  • BUS 2133 - Information Systems for Business 3 Credit Hours
  • BUR 2153 - Principles of Marketing 3 Credit Hours
  • BUF 2173 - Principles of Finance 3 Credit Hours
  • BUM 2183 - Principles of Management 3 Credit Hours
  • 3 Credit Hours (fulfills the Faith, Roots and Reason (General Education) Social Science Requirement) 3 Credit Hours
  • 3 Credit Hours
  • BUS 3001 - Business Professionalism 1 Credit Hour
  • BUS 3193 - Business Law I 3 Credit Hours
  • BUS 3613 - Data Analytics 3 Credit Hours
  • BUI 3633 - Global Business (fulfills the Faith, Roots and Reason (General Education) Global Studies requirement) 3 Credit Hours
  • ECO 3813 - American Free Enterprise (fulfills the Faith, Roots and Reason (General Education) Freedom in American Society/American Free Enterprise requirement as would Freedom in American Society) 3 Credit Hours
  • BUM 4053 - Leadership & Ethics 3 Credit Hours
  • BUS 4303 - Business Strategies 3 Credit Hours

Business Data Analytics 3+2 Requirements (45 Hours)


Additional Required Credit Hours - 20 Credit Hours


  • These additional hours may be fulfilled by a minor, second major, general electives taken concurrently, previous coursework taken at PBA or through transfer credits.