Overview

Skills in business analytics have become indispensable components of most professional careers, and you’re ready to build on your knowledge and add these skills to your toolbox. Do it with the 100% online business analytics graduate certificate from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Learn to use data science tools like R, Tableau, Python and SQL to process, clean and read from large data sets that will have you making predictions and decisions to solve the problems facing your industry.

Whether it’s determining product pricing, predicting how much medicine a hospital will need, or identifying fraudulent transactions, leave the program with an in-depth knowledge of a diverse array of in-demand data-handling tools, theories and techniques that can bring you to a better place in your career or help you transition to something new. Level up your talents and business acumen, make yourself more appealing to employers and gain the ability to truly understand the data your business generates.

Credits earned through the business analytics certificate can be transferred into the Bloch MBA program.

Program Structure

Course work includes:

• Business analytics and statistics
• Data management and data mining
• Data wrangling
• Data visualization
• Data analysis for healthcare

Courses

Courses in this program are offered entirely online; no campus visits are required. Much of the course work is asynchronous, however, each course contains some synchronous components, requiring you to be available at a specific time.

No background in analytics is necessary, but some courses focus significantly on coding.

Course planner

The chart below shows the courses offered in the program. Courses are 3 credit hours each, unless stated otherwise. The university reserves the right to change or cancel courses as needed.

State Authorization

States require that the University of Missouri-Kansas City be authorized to deliver university-level distance/online education to their residents. Each state handles this process differently.

Please see our state authorization page for more information.

Authorized

Students residing in all states are eligible to enroll in this program.

How to Apply

Fulfill the admission requirements

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• GMAT score of 600 (or GRE equivalent)

GMAT waivers may be available to applicants with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA or 2+ years of work experience. Contact blochgrad@umkc.edu for more information.

Required documents

• Transcripts from all universities attended
  • Send electronic transcripts to umkc-admtranscript@umkc.edu.
• A current resume
• A one-page goal statement describing your career plans and how this certificate will help you achieve them.

Complete the online application

• Domestic application fee: $45.00
• International application fee: $75.00

Note: If you were ever enrolled at UMKC as a degree-seeking student, you do not need to resubmit the general UMKC application fee.

Application fee waiver questions: Contact UMKC Office of Admissions with questions via 816-235-8652 or 1-800-775-8652 or admissions@umkc.edu.

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Program Contacts

Gene Pegler Executive Director of Student Affairs Phone: 816-235-5254 Email: peglere@umkc.edu

Tuition and Fees

These estimates are for illustrative purposes only and are based on academic year 2024-2025 information. They include:

• Graduate resident tuition rate of per credit hour for 12 hours
• Graduate Business Course Fee of per credit hour for 12 hours
• Online course fee of per credit hour for 12 hours