Business Analytics

Find facts and inform decisions that shape our world

In our increasingly digital world, data is the currency of the future. If you have an analytical mind and an interest in business, you have the foundations of a lucrative, fascinating career in Data Analytics.

At UTS, you’ll learn from leading experts, build critical, future-ready analytical skills and learn how to turn numbers into actionable insights. This means you’ll graduate with in-demand skills, preparing you for untold success in your future career.

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Internationally ranked
Top 150 worldwide

UTS is ranked in the top 125-150 universities globally for business and management degrees.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024
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Job postings
270,000 currently employed

Australia has a huge number of analysts employed across ICT, business, intelligence, policy, management, market and more.

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Industry demand
High average salary

Business Analysts are in-demand and attract a high average salary.

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Study options

Why study Business Analytics?

Businesses able to make better decisions using data will be the ones that prosper in global, highly competitive markets awash with information. Professionals who want to succeed in a data-driven world will not only understand the numbers but also be able to communicate insights and prescribe action.

Job growth

Within Australia and around the world there is a critical shortage of people with deep analytical, data management and interpretation skills, with one recent survey indicating 40% of companies struggling to find and retain their data analytics talent.

Learn from the best

Teaching staff come from a range of fields at UTS, including Accounting, Economics, Finance, Marketing and Management within UTS Business School, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, School of Computer Science, and School of Information, Systems and Modelling from the Faculty of Engineering and IT and also subjects from the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation.

Study online

In addition to the on-campus Master degree, UTS offers a choice of online Master of Business Analytics, as well as Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma (exit-only) and Extension Master degrees, allowing you to choose the level of study and investment that best fits your needs.

Get inspired

Professionals who want to succeed in a data-driven world will not only understand the numbers but also be able to communicate insights and prescribe action.

These two strands come together as our coursework is designed to meet the needs of professionals with either a business or an IT background who are looking for a boundary-crossing degree to take them forward.

It’s a future-proofing career that builds skills unlikely to be automated and which are in demand.

“They don’t teach you anything you don’t need because the programs are really suited to the needs of industry. Nothing you learn is obsolete.”

F M Farhan Faiyaz

Master of Business Analytics (Extension)

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