Business Analytics

Cambrian College

Overview

Within the Business Analytics program at Cambrian College , you’ll learn to pull meaningful insights from large, complex data sets that businesses need to make informed decisions, predict trends, and better understand their customers. 

As a data storyteller, you’ll learn to simplify complex data, ensuring that decision-makers can grasp the insights without getting lost in technical details. Your ability to present data in a clear and concise manner will add  tremendous value to the decision-making process. 

Career opportunities

Business analysts and data analytics professionals may work independently or with various teams, collecting and mining data from primary and secondary sources, analyzing and interpreting results, pinpointing and predicting trends, providing concise reports, and designing, creating and maintaining databases. Graduates may work as data analysts, database administrators, project managers, software developers, implementation coordinators, data scientists, business intelligence consultants, decision support specialists, and consultants in the industry.

They work for a wide range of industries, including technology, business, government, applied research, human resources, healthcare, and sales and marketing. 

Graduates are prepared for employment opportunities as:

• Data Analyst
• Financial Analyst
• Business Analyst
• Data Miner
• Customer Insights Analyst