Degree: Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences
Major: Data Analytics
Hours: 120

Lamar University's Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Data Analytics combines skills learned in the classroom with the professional experience many pursuing a data analytics degree already possess. This is a flexible, career-focused online program designed for students with diverse backgrounds and prior technical credits, associate degrees or military training.
The objective of this certificate program is to equip you with knowledge of how to collect, analyze and interpret complex data, turning raw information into actionable insights for businesses, corporations. etc. You will focus on statistics, computer science and data visualization tools like R, Python and SQL.
Leadership/Communication Strategies: The Leadership and Communications Strategies course aims to equip students with the essential communication and leadership skills necessary for navigating the professional world. The course will focus on techniques for: conveying ideas and information effectively, becoming a credible influential leader, creating conditions in which individuals and teams thrive, developing measurable goals, and achieving actionable outcomes.
Personal Productivity: Personal productivity is a course based on the FranklinCovey framework, designed to empower individuals to significantly enhance their personal and professional effectiveness by focusing on five key decision-making principles that optimize their time, attention, and energy. This course integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications to develop students' abilities to make effective decisions, manage time efficiently, and achieve sustainable productivity in both personal and professional contexts.
Principles of MIS: This course gives an overview of why information systems are so important today and how they are transforming organizations and management. The students will understand the relationship between the various types of information systems. They will learn to analyze the relationship between information systems and organizations. Also, students will learn how a database management system organizes information. Students would compare the various types of telecommunications networks and network services and become knowledgeable about new business applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Knowledge Management (KM). The course also covers how the internet can be used for electronic commerce and for electronic business, how the internet is becoming the foundation for new business models, new business processes, and new ways of distributing knowledge. The students will develop proficiency in using application tools such as spreadsheet and database for development of Information Systems. In addition, the students are introduced to basic business transactions using SAP- a widely used Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software among the Fortune 500 companies.
Spreadsheets for Business Analytics: This hands-on course will teach students the art of modeling to build, refine and analyze problems for decision-making. Students will use industry standard spreadsheet software for creation and analysis. topics include forecasting, linear and nonlinear optimizations and decision analysis. Projects from all business fields will be used for extensive practice and real-world applications.
Data Visualization: This course provides a comprehensive introduction and hands-on experience in basic data visualization, visual analytics and visual data storytelling. It introduces students to design principles for creating meaningful displays of quantitative and qualitative data to facilitate managerial decision-making in the field of business analytics. Many organizations are using analytics and visualization to make better decisions and improve customer and shareholder value. this is deemed a critical skill in business today.
Graduates of this online program will have numerous paths opened up for them professionally. Data analysis is fast-growing job market, so the need for data analysts is increasing by the day. You will have access to high-demand roles across several industries.
Data analyst, data scientist, quantitative analyst, market research analyst