Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
Course details
| NZQF Level | 4 |
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About the course
Get the technical know-how to use powerful analytics tools and transform 'big data' into meaningful business insights with this short, highly practical qualification. Business analytics enables organisations to bring data to life so they can make better informed business, financial, and marketing decisions to guide their future. This specialised course is designed for people who want to work in roles that leverage data to create value and solve business problems, then communicate their recommendations to a company's stakeholders. Learn how to use powerful tools to extract and analyse 'big data' from a wide range of sources, visualise key trends and patterns, and transform complex datasets into meaningful business insights. Students will work on real-world scenarios while developing their skills in data scraping/mining, data cleaning/wrangling, data analysis and visualisation, prediction and querying, reporting and forecasting. And you'll get exposure to business analytics tools such as Google BigQuery, Excel, and Business Intelligence (Power BI and Tableau).
About the provider
The University of Waikato, located in the central North Island cities of Hamilton and Tauranga, is an internationally recognised tertiary institution offering degree programmes designed to produce job-ready graduates. Each year, the University provides more than 2,000 industry placements and internship opportunities, believing its students benefit from the chance to put the theory they have learnt in classrooms, into practice in a real-world employment environment. When students choose to study at waikato, they gain a globally recognised education. In 2019, the QS World University Rankings placed the University of Waikato 266th in the world, an improvement of 135 places in five years. The University is also in the top 5% of all globally ranked institutions for research impact, meaning their research is among some of the most influential in the world.