This 180-point masters programme will prepare students from business, engineering, social sciences, sciences or technology backgrounds for careers as business analytics professionals.
Programme overview
This practice-focused programme will equip you to interrogate business challenges and then source, manipulate and analyse data to address issues and inform organisational strategies.
You will also develop a strong portfolio of professional skills that will enable you to communicate effectively to a non-technical audience through the use of data visualisation tools and storytelling.
You will have a choice of three specialisations. These provide the opportunity to develop and apply analytical techniques in your field and engage in a project-based industry capstone that provide experience in responding to the challenges of working in a live business context with real data.
Marketing
Supply Chain Management
FinTech
Programme structure
The Master of Business Analytics is a 15-month, 180-point coursework masters programme studied over five quarters.
You will study six core courses (Part I) addressing data sources for the formulation of business strategies and the analytics required to inform decision-making. Topics will include business analytics and information management tools, storytelling and data visualisation, predictive analytics, and decision-making and optimisation.
In Part II you will choose to focus on either Marketing, Supply Chain Management or FinTech and enhance and develop your skills sets in a disciplinary context. Following the completion of a business consultancy practice course and a course in advanced project management you will complete an applied industry project.
180 points: Taught masters
Part I
90 points:
BUSINFO 700 (15 points) – Analysis of Business Problems
BUSINFO 701 (15 points) – Business Analytics Tools
BUSINFO 702 (15 points) – Information Management
BUSINFO 703 (15 points) – Data Visualisation for Business
BUSINFO 704 (15 points) – Predictive Business Analytics
BUSINFO 705 (15 points) – Decision Analytics
Part II
Choose from
Marketing Specialisation Courses:
Supply Chain Management Specialisation Courses:
FinTech Specialisation Courses:
Where could this programme take you?
You will be equipped with specialist knowledge and skills and prepare you for entry into careers as business analytics professionals. People with business analytics skills are highly in demand globally.
Jobs related to this programme
Business Analytics professional
Business Insights Executive
Consultant
Customer Insights Officer
Database Analyst
Investment Specialist
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
Expected September 2025
University of Auckland
City Campus,
Alfred Nathan House, 24 Princes Street,
AUCKLAND CITY,
Auckland Central,
1010, New Zealand
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
Expected April 2025
University of Auckland
City Campus,
Alfred Nathan House, 24 Princes Street,
AUCKLAND CITY,
Auckland Central,
1010, New Zealand
Taught 180 points
You must have completed an undergraduate degree in business or a non-business degree in a relevant discipline such as arts, engineering, technology, or science. Your study must be from a recognised university (or similar institution), and you will need a GPE of 5.0 in the most advanced courses taken. In addition, you must have passed an undergraduate level course in business statistics (STATS 108) or equivalent.
If you have completed advanced course(s) in an undergraduate degree that are considered substantially similar to courses in this programme you will be required to complete substitute course(s). Advice will be provided to you on a case-by-case basis
IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.5 and no bands below 6.0; Internet-based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 90 and written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 68 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 176 and no bands below 169; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 58 and no PTE Communicative score below 50; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of B-; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 85.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s largest and most highly ranked university, with a global reputation for academic excellence.