专业：Business Analytics
链接：
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&edition=2018&id=929
课程设置：
Compulsory courses
Principles of Data Analytics 数据分析原则
Prescriptive Analytics with Mathematical Programming 数学规划的说明性分析
Business Analytics with Heuristics 启发性的商业分析
Predictive Analytics and Modelling of Data 预测分析和数据模型
Dissertation (MSc in Business Analytics)
Course options
Project Management in Business Analysis 商业分析项目管理
Supply Chain Analytics with Games 博弈供应链分析
Business Analytics with Simulation 仿真商业分析
Industrial Analytics 工业分析
Media and Web Analytics 媒体和网络分析
Learning outcomes
General Educational aims are to:
Enable all participants to recognise, understand and apply the language, theory and models of the field of business analytics.
Foster an ability to critically analyse, synthesise and solve complex unstructured business problems.
Encourage an aptitude for business improvement, innovation and entrepreneurial action.
Encourage the sharing of experiences to enhance the benefits of collaborative learning.
Instil a sense of ethical decision-making and a commitment to the long-run welfare of both organisations and the communities that they serve.
Specific Educational aims are to:
Understand and critically apply the concepts and methods of business analytics.
Identify, model and solve decision problems in different settings
Interpret results/solutions and identify appropriate courses of action for a given managerial situation whether a problem or an opportunity.
Create viable solutions to decision making problems.
入学要求：
A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent in an area related to management science, operational research, statistics, econometrics, mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, or business and management with a distinct quantitative content.
Your background should ideally include courses and/or experience gained in topics such as linear algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and computer programming.
If you have a UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent in an unrelated subject we may consider your application if you have relevant work experience.
Work experience is desirable but not mandatory.
Students are required to have their own laptops. In particular, applicants need to ensure that their laptops can run MATLAB
IELTS: total 7.0 (at least 6.0 in each module)