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I’m not sure if MBA would lead to analytics jobs or if I’m better off getting a technical masters. Currently working on strategy projects telling clients how to better take advantage of their data/ what capabilities to invest in in terms of analytics/BI
Some schools (in Canada at least) offer MMAs (Masters of Management Analytics). I've seen a lot of senior leadership in Analytics groups at deloitte who went through this program.
Interesting, I’ll look at those but I was more wondering if anyone’s had good experiences after an MBA in an analytics role or if I’d be better skipping it
There are a lot of business analytics master programs at business schools that I wouldn’t consider “technical.” Some MBAs also offer a business analytics concentration.
IMS Yeah I’m still deciding whether I need to be more technical or not. I know classroom basics for things like databases/visualization tools/ machine learning tools but I’m never going to be creating algorithms, and unless I learn python/R I feel pretty useless right out of undergrad unlike my CS major friends in my consulting job
I see your objectives now: to build algorithms in R or Python. Why not just do a boot camp like General Assembly? It’s more hands-on than an academic program would ever be. Some of those analytics master programs or MBA analytics majors are really just training “business analysts” with ETL skills, which you already have, and not data scientists who can build models.
I think I might’ve misconstrued: while I find algorithms cool my friends at top CS and math programs will probably be forever ahead. Trying to figure out if there’s careers to be had in analytics that don’t involve hardcore data science, and if they need an MBA to lead those teams? I’m not sure where I want to take my career but I enjoy ETL skills and also want to make it to upper management someday
From what I can tell there’s a good market for people who are technically inclined but who aren’t necessarily data scientists...I’m in the same boat. Leaning towards doing more technical training in my free time and combining that with an mba.
Hmm so like Business Intelligence stuff?
MBA in business analytics is more geared toward how do you lead an analytics team to drive business strategy.