Other Programs in the US
After this 1st cohort graduates it will be clear to the rest of the world that MBAn at Michigan is the #1 program in the country (GO BLUE)! Until then, we’ll have to rely on data from other schools whose programs are similar. The list below is not exhaustive, but it includes those who have prestige and recognition similar to UofM.
The rankings for the MBA programs help gauge the overall prestige and difficulty of the business school. Those rankings come from US News 2023 Report. The MBAn rankings come from the QS World University 2022 Report.
Boston University
School: Boston University Questrom School of Business
MBA Ranking: #47
MBAn Ranking: #22
Location: Boston, MA
Cost (Out-of-State): $81,614
Credits: 37
Boston University offers a 37-credit-hour STEM-certified Master of Science in Business Analytics program under Questrom School of Business. Students could select 12-month or 16-month track to finish their program, and there is a summer internship in the 16-month track. Boston is one of famous financial centers around the world and close to New York, which provides students with many working opportunities. This program aims to develop students’ analysis skills in marketing, healthcare, and data processing. Also, the program sets behavior courses about leadership in fall semester. Michigan Ross also offers the similar kinds of courses offered in BU, and Ross highlights students’ leadership skills so that students could become a successful leader in business world. Michigan MBAn program provides quantitative analysis courses as well, but it sets the ‘Supervised Machine Learning’ in the second semester, which is different from BU setting in the first semester. Ross considers students who are novice in programming, so it teaches students basic programming knowledge in Python and R. What’s more, Ross students could have real-world experience in companies through capstone project, which is the same as BU, to strengthen students’ problem processing skills.
Carnegie Mellon
School: Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
MBA Ranking: #16
MBAn Ranking: #NA
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Cost (Out-of-State): $69,495
Credits: 108
Carnegie Mellon University offers a 18-month 108-credit Master of Science in Business Analytics program and Tepper School of Business. According to its class profile, this program is mainly opened for applicants with more than 6-year working experience. At the start of the program, students will have intensive training in data engineering. As a top university in computer science, CMU teaches students to process problems driven by statistics and programming, and students could have capstone projects in technology companies and get jobs there. Michigan Ross’ MBAn program is suitable for students with a few-year experience. It is the same as CMU that Ross strengthens student’s data analysis skills to process information in today’s data driven world. However, Ross MBAn program is quite different from than CMU that Ross sets leadership and management courses in the first semester, which helps students immerse in business world at the beginning so that students could develop their business logic as soon as possible for applying for a job. Also, Ross MBAn students could have courses with MBA student in winter session, and have connections with top companies through Ross’ alumni network.
Columbia
School: Columbia Business School
MBA Ranking: #7
MBAn Ranking: #12
Location: New York, NY
Cost (Out-of-State): $85,032
Credits: 36
This is a program provided and managed by both Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School. This is a 36-credit degree STEM-designated program with three-semester curriculum designed for those who want to focus on learning the modeling techniques and data science tools that help businesses use data to make better decisions. Students need to take at least six courses within the IEOR(Industrial Engineering and Operations Research) department, four to six at the Business School. The remaining courses, if any, can be taken from the School of Engineering, the School of International and Public Affairs, the Law School, or the Departments of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics. A capstone project is also offered and required during the program, which is similar to the one Ross provides. in 2022, 24% of the graduates entered Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, 38% entered Financial Services, and 19% entered Consulting & Professional Services.
Duke
School: The Fuqua School of Business
MBA Ranking: #12
MBAn Ranking: #10
Location: Durham, NC
Cost (Out-of-State): $75,500
Credits: 19 courses + 1 Capstone Project
“The Master of Science in Quantitative Management (MQM): Business Analytics program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is an intensive 10-month degree that provides a foundation in data analytics, with a focus on specific issues in one of four industry domains: Finance, Forensics, Marketing, and Strategy. This is a STEM-designated program. Over five terms you can complete up to 19 courses and a Capstone Project. Each term, required courses cover topics in data, statistics, and analytics as well as business context, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Starting in Term 2, you will also take at least one course per term in your functional track, as well as optional electives from the other tracks. The data analytics course Fuqua provides are very similar to the ones at Ross MBAn. However, There are various different courses available for each track which woulp help each student to tailor for his or her desired career.
Michigan State
School: Michigan State University Broad College of Business
MBA Ranking: #36
MBAn Ranking: #21
Location: East Lancing, MI
Cost (Out-of-State): $39,000
Credits: 30
The main themes of the Data Science and Business Analytics program focus on business strategy, data tools and management, and experiential project consulting. Graduates from Broad’s M.S. in Business Data Science and Analytics program have landed employment opportunities in a wide range of industries, such as consulting, automotive, consumer products, retail and financial services. Forty percent of graduates enter the field as a data scientist, while 60% follow a more business analyst career track. This Master’s in Data Science and Business Analytics program is designed to give training and hands-on experience to students in multiple areas of the data science and analytics field such as descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Minnesota
School: University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
MBA Ranking: #33
MBAn Ranking: #7
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Cost (Out-of-State): $63,450
Credits: 45
The Carlson School’s Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program teaches students how to harvest, process, and analyze data to answer important questions and solve real business problems in an increasingly data-driven world. In the full-time MSBA, students will complete 45 credits in three semesters. Students will study fundamental topics such as statistics, programming, and data engineering, as well as advanced techniques for data visualization, predictive analytics, machine learning, causal experimentation, and more. The Carlson MSBA program is recognized by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security as a STEM-designated program. In addition to classroom learning, students at the Carlson School gain real experience working on analytics projects for corporate partners. All three semesters include experiential learning opportunities to ensure students practice applying theory to real-world problems. Thanks to this unique program design, students graduate with both a degree and a stronger resume.
MIT
School: Sloan School of Management
MBA Ranking: #5
MBAn Ranking: #1
Location: Cambridge, MA
Cost (Out-of-State): $86,300.00
Credits: 111-144. 12 Month porgram Full Time
The MIT Sloan Master of Business Analytics program is a 12-month, accelerated, doctoral-level STEM degree focused on applying the tools of modern data science, optimization, and machine learning to solve real-world business problems. The program includes core courses such Machine Learning, Optimization Methods, Advances Analytics Edge, Software Tools in R, Python, SQL bur also diverse Analytics Electives. A real-world analytics capstone project with a sponsor company (Accenture, BMW, Coca Cola, McKinsey, Pfizer, Walmart, etc… The class size is 66 and the average working experience 17 months. It is a diverse program with 24 countries represented and many undergradute majors (Math & Science, Engineering, Ecnonomics, Computer Science).
Notre Dame
School: University of Notre Dame
MBA Ranking: #25
MBAn Ranking: #34
Location: South Bend, IN
Cost (Out-of-State): $57,300.00
Credits: 31
The Notre Dame Master of Science in Business Analytics is a 10 Months 31 credts hour programfull time on the Notre Dame campus. The program present a really similar curriculun than the Ross one and is offered within the Mendoza College of Business. The program forcus on leanring to apply analytics techniques for “big data” including data minng, data storage and manipulation, data visualization, statistics, modeling, optimization, and simulation in a variety of business areas such as finance, operations, and marketing.
Purdue
School: Purdue University Krannert School of Management
MBA Ranking: #80 (2020)
MBAn Ranking: #17
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Cost (Out-of-State): $34,920
Credits: 36
Purdue is similar to UofM in that they are both public BIG10 schools that are in the Midwest. Purdue offers an 11-month STEM-certified Master of Science in Business Analytics and Information Management (MSBAIM) program. It is 36 credits and the core courses are split between technical and business. Some of the courses to highlight are “Spreadsheet Modeling and Simulation”, “Data Mining w/SAS Enterprise Miner”, “IT Project Management”, “Predictive Analytics”, and “Python Programming”. The MBAn program through Ross offers many of these same classes with the addition of the Business Analytics Consulting Studio course in the winter term. Elective courses are taken alongside MBA students and Michigan’s MBA program ranks #10 in the country based on the 2023 US News rankings and Purdue was ranked #80 in 2020.
Texas
School: The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
MBA Ranking: #18
MBAn Ranking: #7
Location: Austin, TX
Cost (Out-of-State): $53,000
Credits: 36
The University of Texas at Austin offers a 10-month, 36-credit-hour STEM-eligible MSBA through their McCombs School of Business. They offer multiple tracks between a general MSBA, one focused on Financial Analytics, and one in Supply Chain & Marketing. All students take the general courses in the summer and those include “Data Science Programming” which covers Python and an “Introduction to Machine Learning” course which includes regression analysis, data visualization, and other data science principles. These concepts are also covered in the MBAn curriculum at Ross. The other tracks at UT have separate FALL and WINTER courses versus the general track which allows students to have a more focused curriculum. Many of the courses are again offered at Ross, and MBAn students can choose to take electives in Finance, Supply Chain, or Marketing if they’d like to explore those areas. Michigan’s MBA program ranks #10 in the country based on the 2023 US News rankings and UT Austin is ranked #18. They tout their Business Analytics program as being ranked #1 for Big Data Management according to Eduniversal.
USC
School: USC Marshall School of Business
MBA Ranking: #19
MBAn Ranking: #8
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Cost (Out-of-State): $72,501
Credits: 33
The USC Marshall MSBA program is a data science STEM program with a business lens. It is one of the longest-running MSBA programs in the nation and is ranked in the top 10 according to QA World University Rankings. They advertise their program and are split between 3 pillars of 1) Computer Science, 2) Statistics, Machine Learning, Optimization, and 3) Business Strategy. Their program is only 33 credits and is over 3 15-week semesters (Fall/Spring/Fall). Some of the core classes worth highlighting are “Statistical Computing and Data Visualization”, “SQL Databases for Business Analysts”, and “Communication for Management”. They goal is to build technical skills for their students such as programming, machine learning, statistics, and data science while also setting them up to be effective leaders in the business world. Michigan Ross has a similar mission where its classes are geared towards developing leadership skills while understanding how data and analytics. can be used used to solve business problems. USC’s MBA program ranks #19 in the US compared to Michigan’s #10 ranking according to US News. It is worth pointing out that program tuition is $72,501 and they also ask that “students budget for approximately $3,000 in additional university and program fees”.