VCU Master
of Science in Business
with a Concentration in
Decision Analytics Traditional
Program
30 hour Curriculum
Revised curriculum approved April 2014
Prerequisite Calculus Course
All students must
have completed a course in calculus prior to attempting graduate business
courses.
Foundation Courses for Prerequisite Business
Knowledge
Students must have
the equivalent of four classes from the following list. At the time of application,
all undergraduate and graduate transcripts will be reviewed to determine if
the following courses may be waived. Waivers of foundation courses only
occur when a student has completed the required undergraduate equivalent courses
with at least a "C" grade.
MGMT 524 Statistical Elements of Quantitative Management
And at least three of the courses listed below or provide proof of satisfactory
equivalent preparation:
ACCT 507 Fundamentals of Accounting
ECON 500 Concepts in Economics
FIRE 520 Financial Concepts of Management
INFO 364 Database Systems (Not offically required
but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
MGMT 530 Fundamentals of the Legal Environment of Business
MGMT 540 Management Theory and Practice
MRBL 570 Concepts and Issues in Marketing
30 Credit Hours Required for the MS Degree
Required Core Courses - 9 Credit Hours
INFO 664 Business Intelligence
MGMT 632 Statistical Analysis
MGMT 645
Management Science
Restricted Elective Courses - 9 Credit Hours satisfied by any three
of the six courses below:
INFO 610 Analysis and Design of Database Systems (Not
offically required but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED);
INFO 614 Data Mining
MGMT 643 Applied Multivariate Methods
MGMT 669 Forecasting Methods
MGMT 648 Analytics for Organizational Decision Making
MGMT 677 Quality Management and Six Sigma
Relevant Elective Courses - 12 Credit Hours satisfied by four courses from the approved listed below or those remaining from the above list or other relevant courses approved by the faculty advisor:
Approved Electives:
ACCT 608 Managerial Accounting
ECON 501 Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 610 Managerial Economics
ECON 612 Econometrics
FIRE 629 Real Estate Investment Analysis
FIRE 635 Investments and Security Analysis
INFO 611 Data Engineering
INFO 616 Data Warehousing
MGMT 675 Operations Management
MGMT 691 Topics in Management
(Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management or topic approved by advisor)
MGMT 697 Guided Study
MRBL 673 Marketing Research
MRBL 691 Topics in Marketing
(Marketing Analytics or topic approved by advisor)
Other department's courses may be approved by the program advisor, such as the courses below
OPER 527 Optimization I
OPER 528 Stochastic Simulation
OPER 627 Optimization II
OPER 635 Network Models and Graph Theory
OPER 641 Discrete Event System Simulation
OPER 643 Decision and Risk Analysis
OPER 647 Multiobjective Decision Analysis
STAT 623 Discrete Multivariate Analysis
STAT 636/ OPER 636 Machine Learning Algorithms
STAT 642 Design and Analysis of Experiments I
General description and program overview
Information about applying to VCU Graduate Programs in Business
Contact: VCU Office for Graduate Studies in Business
(804) 828-4622, gsib@vcu.edu
Concentration Faculty Advisor for the Traditional Program: Dr. Robert L. Andrews
Page last revised on June 6, 2016