The Business Analytics major provides the managerial and technical skills to leverage data for decision making in an organization. The major focuses on the use of data to guide evidence-based decision-making. Analytics combines numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics. This major provides a framework for the collection and use of data; for analyzing structured and unstructured data; and for developing models to describe and predict behavior in data-rich environments.
Miami University's Farmer School of Business is annually recognized as one of the nation's best undergraduate business schools. Each year, the number of first-year applications for the Farmer School of Business (FSB) exceeds the number of spaces available. Admission to the FSB is competitive and based on a holistic and comprehensive review process which considers many factors to establish the context of students' achievements and demonstrated potential to be successful in its rigorous curriculum.