Building Your Analytics Skills to Advance Your Business Career
The exponential growth of data and use of technology is creating a host of new career opportunities at the intersection of business and technical skills. Portland State University’s Enterprise Analytics Certificate equips you with skills that enhance your value and set you up for career advancement.
Designed for professionals, the enterprise analytics program offers advanced training you can use immediately. You will learn the most current tools and techniques for gathering, analyzing, organizing, and interpreting data. In addition, you will develop the business acumen to apply these skills in an enterprise environment.
You can earn the Enterprise Analytics Certificate as a stand-alone credential. It also pairs with the Master of Science in Applied Data Science for Business, and can also be combined with The Portland MBA, Master of Science in Finance, or Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management.
Whether you seek to switch careers, earn a promotion, or become more effective in your current role, PSU’s Enterprise Analytics Certificate can accelerate your professional trajectory and increase your earning power.
- Results-oriented: Our Enterprise Analytics program emphasizes practical, relevant skills designed to open new career and advancement opportunities.. Curriculum developed with business community input makes it immediately relevant.
- Forward-looking: The field of enterprise analytics is constantly evolving, and PSU can keep you ahead of the curve. We’ve made the U.S. News & World Report’s “Most Innovative Universities” list four consecutive years because our faculty and students are so good at adapting to—and helping to create—new trends.
- Accessible and convenient: You can earn the Enterprise Analytics Certificate in nine months, taking one to two courses per term. We designed the program with working professionals in mind, so you can easily balance college with a full-time work schedule.
- Academically rigorous: Data analytics sits at the intersection of business, math, information technology, and engineering. Our Enterprise Analytics program draws on all four disciplines, providing you with a versatile and well-rounded skill set that you can apply in almost any industry
Enterprise Analytics Certificate Highlights
- Hands-on project work in R and Tableau, SQL, Python, modern visualization and enterprise resource planning platforms
- Imparts skills that are in high demand
- Online format maximizes flexibility and convenience, especially for working professionals
- Offered by PSU’s nationally ranked Business School
- Curriculum informed by industry leaders
Preferred Qualifications
You may be someone who is early in their career, an experienced professional or someone exploring a career change. The Enterprise Analytics Certificate is designed to benefit candidates from all those different backgrounds.
The course work is designed and taught in a manner that does not require specific undergraduate technical or math course prerequisites.
PSU’s Enterprise Analytics Certificate Program imparts a unique combination of technical and business skills that are increasing in demand in the business, government and nonprofit sectors. You will be able to apply these skills in variety of enterprise functions including:
- Marketing
- Finance
- Human resources management
- Supply chain management
- Operations
- Accounting
- Manufacturing
Curriculum
The Enterprise Analytics program consists of a four-course sequence. You will learn new technical skills and develop business acumen with real-work data-sets and scenarios.
Fall Term
- BTA 511 – Business Data Management with SQL (4 credits)
Winter Term
- BTA 512 - Business Data Analytics with Python (4 credits)
- GSCM 521 - Global Information Systems & Data Analytics (4 credits)
Spring Term
- BTA 553- Enterprise Data Visualization for Decision Making (4 credits)
ACCREDITATION & RANKINGS
Portland State University is fully accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).
One of fewer than 200 business schools worldwide — top 1% — to be accredited in both business and accounting by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). AACSB is the elite business school accreditation known internationally.
Portland State's School of Business is committed to student learning. AACSB accreditation includes assessment of student learning outcomes.
Top Online Business Program, U.S. News & World Report.