Master's in Business Analytics
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MS in Business Analytics Program Overview
The MS in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at Leeds School of Business equips you to become an expert who can analyze and translate data into actionable insights.
By mastering digital innovation tools, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data engineering, data visualizations, statistical modeling, and storytelling, MSBA students gain the skills to succeed across industries and in a variety of careers.
The program culminates in a capstone project course in which student teams work with industry partners to solve challenging, real-world business problems.
By choosing from one of our integrated and in-demand program tracks, you can add depth to your business analytics skill set.
- Go deeper on artificial intelligence to develop evergreen skills, learn to develop AI agent swarms using vibe coding, and develop AI strategy
- Explore roles in core AI teams
Program Details
- GMAT/GRE test scores are optional.
- The full-time, in-person program is 10 months. The part-time, online program format takes two years to complete.
- STEM-designated degree program.
- Automatic admission granted to currently enrolled CU undergraduate seniors with a Leeds major or minor who have a 3.0 GPA or higher.
- No coding or technical background is required.
- This program is visa-eligible; email leedsgrad@colorado.edu to discuss options.
- Use optimization, simulation, and supply chain analytics to design smarter processes and improve operations
- Prepare for roles in operations, optimization modeling, supply chain analytics, and process analytics.
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- Prepare for a role in healthcare analytics, where data is everywhere and solutions are needed.
- Explore how natural language processing and AI can be applied to healthcare settings
- Turn customer and market data into actionable insights for strategic marketing decisions. Set up advertising solutions that react to demand and track consumer interest.
- Prepare for a role in digital marketing, marketing analysis, and data optimization
Careers in Business Analytics
Leeds maintains strategic partnerships with a myriad of companies across industries, from large multinationals to local Boulder startups. While pursuing your master’s degree you’ll have the opportunity to leverage these relationships to connect with analytics professionals and expand your network. As an MS Business Analytics student at Leeds, you'll have access to hundreds of jobs and personalized support to connect you with key contacts, resources and organizations to make your career goals a reality. Leeds' students find jobs with companies like Danone, Accenture, Alteryx and Medtronic.
Common job titles include Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Predictive Analyst and Quantitative Analyst.
Master's in Business Analytics Faculty
Meet our award-winning faculty, recognized for their innovative teaching approach and their cutting-edge research in top academic journals.
Professor, Faculty Director, MS Business Analytics
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
Most known for providing a practical solution to Edward Thorndike's (1904) Jingle Fallacy and for his contributions to the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR). Kai was named one of the 75 leading Academic Data Leaders of 2022 by CDO Magazine along with some of the world’s best computer scientists, and one of the 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023 by Poets and Quants.
Assistant Professsor
MARKETING
Liu Liu is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Leeds School of Business at the . She received her PhD in Marketing from New York University Stern School of Business. She also holds a BE from Tsinghua University and an MS from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer Science. Prior to her academic career, Liu worked at Google for three years as a Software Engineer, developing large-scale machine learning models to predict consumers' ad click-through rates for the AdSense system.
Assistant Professor
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
David G. Dobolyi is an Assistant Professor in the division of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics, Leeds School of Business, . He earned his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Virginia, and his research spans a range of topics including cybersecurity, text analytics, and face recognition. His work leverages a variety of statistical methods including predictive analytics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral experiments.
Assistant Professor
MARKETING
Quentin Andre's research focuses on judgment and decision making in general, with a special interest in numerical cognition (how people make sense of numbers in their everyday life) and managerial decision-making (how managers make data-driven decisions in the presence of uncertainty). He also care about issues related to open-science, replicability, and reproducibility. In his spare time, he is developing tools and software to facilitate the collection and analysis of behavioral data.
Assistant Teaching Professor
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
Fairy Gandhi is an Assistant Teaching Professor with the Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics (OLIA) division at the Leeds School of Business, . She earned her MS in Business Analytics in 2020 and an MS in Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems in 2025, both from Leeds.
She has been recognized with the Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Award and the Leeds PhD Student Teaching Award (both 2023).
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MS News and Updates
Application Deadlines
Round 1:October6, 2025
Round 2:December1, 2025
Round 3:February2, 2026
Final International Deadline:February4, 2026
Final Domestic Deadline: May 11, 2026
Program Start Date: June 2026