UTexas

Business Analytics

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Master of Science in Business Analytics

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Campus address: College of Business Administration Building (CBA) 5.202, phone (512) 471-3322, fax (512) 471-0587; campus mail code: B6500

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM), 2110 Speedway B6500, Austin TX 78712-1277

MS Business Analytics e-mail: TexasMSBA@mccombs.utexas.edu

MS Business Analytics program URL: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/msba

Facilities for Graduate Work

Faculty members and graduate students in business analytics are involved in the work of the Center for Business, Technology, and Law, the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, the risk management and insurance program, and the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. Additional research centers that support graduate work in the McCombs School, as well as the school’s physical facilities and computing systems, are described in the business administration section under Facilities for Graduate Work.

Areas of Study

The graduate degree in business analytics is offered.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2023 semester.

Ashish Agarwal
Edward G Anderson Jr
Uttarayan Bagchi
Anantaram Balakrishnan
Indranil R Bardhan
Anitesh Barua
Magdalena Bennett
Patrick L Brockett
Junyu Cao
Carlos Marinho Carvalho
Deepayan Chakrabarti
Avinash Collis
Paul Damien
Maria De Arteaga Gonzalez
James S Dyer
Rui Gao
Stephen M Gilbert
Diwakar Gupta
Genaro J Gutierrez
Sirkka L Jarvenpaa
Prabhudev C Konana
Guoming Lai
Yan Leng
Douglas J Morrice
Jared Scott Murray
Kumar Muthuraman
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
Thomas W Sager
James G Scott
Thomas S Shively
Ioannis Stamatopoulos
Huseyin Tanriverdi
Efstathios Tompaidis
Wen Wen
Andrew B Whinston
Thaleia Zariphopoulou
Mingyuan Zhou

Admission Requirements

The admissions timeline and criteria for the Master of Science in Business Analytics Option III program is separate from other degrees in the department. The MSBA program begins in the second term of summer semester and concludes the following spring semester. Applicants admitted to the MS in Business Analytics Option III program will be required to submit a nonrefundable enrollment deposit to secure enrollment in the program.

The MS Bridge Program offers undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin an opportunity to prepare for future graduate study by providing access to courses and program resources that normally require graduate standing. University of Texas at Austin undergraduate students may apply for admission through the graduate academic unit sponsoring the bridge program. Admission to a bridge program is highly competitive and does not guarantee admission to a graduate degree program. Additional information can be found at MS Bridge Program.