Finishing my Kellogg application. Is Data Analytics a strong path? Basically I am curious if I need and MBA to work in a business analytics and data analytics job. Would I be better off just doing course on my own dime?

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You do not need an MBA to work in analytics.. in fact I would argue most data professionals do not have an MBA unless they are interested in management. Otherwise, math, stats, cs, and engineering are the usual majors but not exclusively.

MBA will not teach you any data analytics. It TRIES to teach you how to ingest the data that is represented to you and make a good decision based on it. I think it is nice to have MBA combined with hard data analytics skills set like Python, SQL, Tableau. Average MBA programs won’t teach you those skills set. Looks like Kellogg has MBAi program, which might teach you some Python. You should probably look into that curriculum in detail.

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