Business analytics courses and requirements
In addition to the core, you'll complete these courses:
Required courses
In the business analytics concentration, you will follow a specific plan of study. Included in this plan are these required courses:
Elective courses
You will also choose two business analytics elective courses and seven other MBA electives.

Leveraging big data for supply chain resilience
When superstorms, viral epidemics, or political upheavals hit supply chains, how can businesses be ready?
"Analytics is becoming very key in managing a world-class supply chain, and it touches all aspects of a business.”
Professor Jennifer Blackhurst, MBA business analytics faculty director, and her colleague Assistant Professor Kang Zhao are examining how the structure of supply chains impacts a company’s resilience amid disruptive events.
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Business analytics students are members of the Business Analytics Academy, led by a business and faculty director who serve as mentor, coach, and guide to industry.
Kristine Arens
Business Director, Business Analytics Academy
E426 Pomerantz Center
319-335-0892
kristine-arens@uiowa.edu
Jennifer Blackhurst, PhD
Faculty Director, Business Analytics Academy
W236 Pappajohn Business Building
319-335-0643
jennifer-blackhurst@uiowa.edu