在我们这个复杂的社会中，我们充满了信息，以太多通常难以理解的格式呈现的信息。但是，我们希望能够发现并解决问题，并迅速做出明智的决定。信息与决策科学系的学术计划和活动将为您做好准备。您将学习组织环境中信息和决策技术的技能和应用程序，设计和管理支持其他专业人员的系统，使他们更有效地工作，并成为交流的重要成员。
Today, while business leaders are looking for tremendous amounts of information, they also need trained employees who know how to source, clean, analyze and visualize data to maximize its value. The BA in Business Analytics provides the foundation needed to transform a maze of numbers into well-informed data driven decisions. In addition to providing students with fundamental big data resource and infrastructure management skills, this program is designed to provide students with exposure to applied areas (specifically: Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Marketing and Supply Chain Management) through specific degree requirements. This program cultivates organizational and technical competencies to implement data gathering, cleansing, integrating and modeling tasks, as well as data asset analysis for business applications. The BA in Business Analytics also covers data warehousing, dimensional modeling, big data analytics methods, and visualization tools and techniques, and it introduces topics such as data mining and predictive analytics. Employment opportunity for Business Analytics majors are diverse and students can work in areas such as healthcare, finance, information technology, telecommunications, consulting, data analytics, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, government, and many more.