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 2024 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 Paul Damien Maria De Arteaga Gonzalez James S Dyer Rui Gao Stephen M Gilbert Diwakar Gupta Genaro J Gutierrez

Sirkka L Jarvenpaa 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 (on campus and online) is separate from other degrees in the department. The MSBA program is offered in two formats:  full-time (FT) format and working-professional (WP) format. The FT program begins in the second term of the summer semester and concludes ten months later, the following spring semester; the WP program begins in the first term of the summer semester and concludes 22 months later in the 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.