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MS in Analytics
From Insights to Impact

When is the next deadline?
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Oct 15, 2024
Early Application Deadline
Dec 15, 2024
Priority Scholarship Consideration
Feb 15, 2025
Final Deadline for Int'l Applicants
Apr 15, 2025
Final Deadline for Domestic Applicants
At a Glance

Harness the power of AI and data storytelling and AI to solve complex business problems and elevate your career with Kogod’s MS in Analytics. Available in-person, online, and hybrid, the program not only equips you with an in-demand skill set but also opens doors to specialized and lucrative roles across industries.

STEM Designation
To Highlight Your Technical Skills

Employers are looking for technically savvy graduates with demonstrated STEM skills. Our STEM-designated program synchronizes management skills with technical expertise, educating a new generation of business leaders proficient in using cutting-edge technologies and approaches. 

Flexible Modalities
To Earn Your Degree Your Way

No matter where you live, business analytics can catapult your career. That's why we offer the MS in Analytics in-person on our campus in Washington, DC, online, or a combination of both. The learning outcomes are the same—you just get to choose where and how you take your courses!

AI Focus & Integration
To Put You Ahead of the Curve

Knowing how to use AI ethically and effectively is critical in today's job market. Get hands-on practice mastering essential AI concepts and tools—like prompt engineering and programming—and gain experience with R, Python, and AI/ML Models. 

Small, Tight-Knit Cohort
To Form Lifelong Connections

The relationships you build within the Kogod community can be meaningful—both personally and professionally. Leverage the benefits of our deliberately small class sizes, designed to foster enduring bonds with your peers and professors.

Industry-Driven Paths
To Specialize Your Learning

Business analytics skills can be applied in nearly any field. Fine-tune your Analytics degree and focus your electives on sustainability, marketing, finance, forensic accounting, or data science. Or, work with an advisor to build your own specialization! 

Practicum Project
To Put Your Skills Into Action

Real-world experience can set you apart when entering the job market. Prepare for future career opportunities with the Analytics practicum, which allows students to use real data to solve business challenges. It takes place in Washington, DC, giving you the chance to network with your peers and make valuable connections. 

Why get an MS in Analytics at Kogod?

Become an AI expert

Dive deep into analytics with real-world AI applications. Master programming languages such as R, Python, SQL, and Tableau, and culminate your learning in a capstone project that tackles actual analytics challenges in collaboration with local organizations.

Understand all aspects of a business

Journey through the full lifecycle of business analytics and gain essential knowledge in technology, strategy, operations, supply chain, finance, accounting, and marketing. 

Take advantage of DC — even if you're an online student

Positioned in the heart of Washington, DC, the program leverages its location and strong industry partnerships to connect students with unparalleled networking and professional opportunities in global Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, international organizations, and NGOs. Every MS Analytics student, including online, participates in an in-person practicum to culminate the degree experience.

Pursue a functional specialization

Gain in-depth knowledge in a particular area and graduate with a skill set that sets you apart. Choose from sustainability, marketing, forensic accounting, finance, or data science. You can also work with your advisor to create your own specialization.

Earn professional certificates

Gain an edge in this competitive job market by completing one of our professional graduate certificates. Enhance your degree with a certificate in forensic accounting or any of our other five graduate certificate options.

Access expert faculty

Take advantage of our top-tier faculty—renowned experts in their fields and key players in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, government, and global organizations. As mentors, they are invested in the professional and academic success of our students.

At its core, the analytics degree is a business-oriented education where courses are balanced between business and statistical analysis. For someone from a business background who had been exploring technical skills, it was a perfect match."

Rui Huang

Rui Huang

MS in Analytics '20
Business Intelligence Analyst at Hopper

What You'll Learn

Comprehensive Core

The MS in Analytics consists of 33 credit hours. The courses in core competencies and analytics foundations provide a well-rounded understanding of the field. You'll learn evidence-based data gathering, data modeling, and quantitative analysis, as well as how to implement these tools to provide businesses with competitive advantages. Students gain skills to work in business intelligence, financial analysis, marketing, and consulting.

Practical Expertise

To further your expertise, you'll either choose a functional specialization or a functional background. These concentrations allow you to elevate your skills in some of the most critical aspects of analytics.

The highlight of our curriculum is the Practicum Project, which gives you the chance to apply high-level analytical skills to real-world data. When you graduate, you'll leave with the practical know-how to take on that next step in your career.

Degree Requirements

Program Highlights
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STEM-Designated Program

STEM-designated programs equip students with technological expertise and leadership skills vital to the US economy. The designation also allows international students to apply for a 24-month extension of their Optional Practical Training.

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Practicum Project

Gain hands-on client experience by solving an analytics problem for a real or simulated client using real-world data. Past clients include DC United, Special Olympics, Eastbanc Technologies, and Earth Networks.

US Department of Commerce

A Partner of the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) 

Kogod is one of more than 200 leading AI stakeholders to help advance the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI under the new US Government Safety Institute.

AI + Sustainability
Gamechangers in Sustainability Speaker Series with Xylem CEO Matthew Pine

Kogod School of Business welcomes the leader of water technology company Xylem “at the perfect intersection” of the school’s priorities of sustainability, AI, and analytics.

Class Profile
58%
International Students
50%
Women
24%
US Minorities*
1.7 Years
Average Work Experience
25
Average Age
3.16
Average GPA

*Black = Black or African American; Hispanic = Hispanic/American or Latino; AIAN = American Indian or Alaska Native; NHPI = Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.

Kogod has a profound purpose of making its students masters in real-world experience."

Komi Koffi MS in Analytics Alum '21

Komi Koffi

MS in Analytics Alum '21

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Careers & Outcomes

Our graduates have found professional success in a wide range of industries, that span the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Six months after graduation, 93 percent of our students report they are either fully employed, in graduate school, or both.

Graduates of the program can work as:

  • Intelligence analysts
  • Financial analysts
  • Marketing analysts
  • Business analytics consultants
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Supply chain managers

Recent employers include:

  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Cisco
  • Deloitte
  • Department of Defense
  • The Rare Genomics Institute
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • EJF Capital
  • Gartner
  • Geico

The experience of the professors from the analytics space was just really attractive to me.”

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Kensey Johnson

Senior Paid Marketing Lead, Amazon

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