Fully immerse yourself in the Wake Forest community. At the end of your first semester in the online MSBA program, conditions permitting, you’ll have the opportunity to join your classmates on our Winston-Salem, North Carolina, campus for a two-day, in-person “Deacon Weekend”—so named for the Wake Forest mascot, the Demon Deacon. You can grow your network by connecting with other business and analytics professionals, experience campus, and meet key faculty and staff.
Master's in Business Analytics (MSBA)—Online
Earn Your MSBA Online from Top-Ranked Wake Forest
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Grow Your Expertise. Drive Impact for Tomorrow.
Are you ready to become an effective leader who knows how to leverage data to produce meaningful results? We’ll prepare you with the technical skills of data analytics, as well as the business insight to ask the right questions and the influence to make decisions that solve the right problem. You’ll study a market-focused curriculum that was developed with industry feedback from the type of analytics expert you could one day be.
Online Business Analytics Program Highlights
Working professionals, prepare to shape the future of business with data. Learn from industry experts who use current market developments to keep the curriculum cutting edge. The online Wake Forest MSBA equips you with strong quantitative capabilities plus marketable skills required by top employers. Your first two courses will cover the basics of probability, statistical modeling, and analytics software to ensure you have the foundational knowledge needed to succeed in the program.
Enhance Your Problem-Solving Ability
Train across the full spectrum of analytics methodologies. Through the use of real-world scenarios and current case studies, you’ll learn how to use data to solve the complex challenges facing businesses today.
Build Deep Analytics Expertise
Become proficient in descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics; identify opportunities to improve your organization with analytics; provide thought leadership on aligning the right tools and methodologies to solve business problems; and confidently articulate and advocate for the value proposition of data-driven decision-making within your organization.
Gain Strategic Leadership Skills
Become a leader who turns data insights into action. Develop communication, teamwork, and leadership skills, as well as an understanding of the responsible and ethical use of data for making better decisions and creating business and social value.
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What Our Graduates Are Saying
The great thing about the MSBA at Wake Forest is that it ensures the technical parts of the program are taught from a business standpoint, which makes it applicable to many different job types and industries.
Buchi Okafor, MSBA Graduate
Strategy and Operations Management, McMaster-Carr
September 2022
Start Date
As Little As 20 Months
Program Length
Online
Course Learning Format