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MSc Business Analytics

Please note: The below is for 2025 entries. Click here for 2024 entries.
UCAS code 1234
Duration 1 year full time
Entry year January 2025 September 2025
Campus Streatham Campus
Discipline Business and Management
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Typical offer

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A 2:1 with honours.

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Overview

  • Learn how to utilise and leverage data to solve business problems
  • Enhance your employability skills throughout the programme, finishing with a Business Project module using real data to address a real organisational problem
  • Undertake modules in Marketing Analytics, Strategic & HR Analytics, Operations Analytics, and Environmental Analytics giving you specialist skills for a variety of careers
  • Take part in the optional QTEM programme including an internship and semester abroad
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Contact

Programme Director: Dr Suman Saha (January start)

Programme Director: Dr Stuart So (September start)

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Phone: +44 (0)1392 72 72 72

Master your future in Management at the University of Exeter.

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UK Business School of the Year

Times Higher Education Awards 2022

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Top 100 Financial Times ranked European Business School

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Triple accredited Business School

AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS

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Spend an additional semester studying at one of the prestigious academic partners with our QTEM Programme

Studying Business Analytics opened so many new horizons for me. When I began the course, I had no prior knowledge of coding, but the University offered numerous free workshops to learn programming languages.

Amna

MSc Business Analytics graduate

Entry requirements

A 2:1 with honours with 57% and above or equivalent in any discipline. We do consider all applications where there is evidence of exceptional performance in modules relevant to the programme of study, significant relevant work experience or professional qualifications.

Entry requirements for international students

English language requirements

International students need to show they have the required level of English language to study this course. The required test scores for this course fall under Profile B2. Please visit our English language requirements page to view the required test scores and equivalencies from your country.

Course content

The programme is delivered over three terms and is University-based throughout this time. 

The taught components of the programme are delivered in the first two terms, leaving the third term to complete your Business Project. The programme in its entirety runs from September to September.

  • During the programme you will study modules totalling 180 credits.
  • Please note that programme structures may be subject to change.
  • Descriptions of the individual modules are given in full on the Business School postgraduate module list.

Compulsory modules

120 credits of compulsory modules

CodeModule Credits
BEMM457 Topics in Business Analytics 15
BEMM458 Programming for Business Analytics 15
BEMM459 Database Technologies for Business Analytics 15
BEMM460 Statistics and Mathematics for Business Analytics 15
BEMM461 Analytics and Visualisation for Managers and Consultants 15
BEMM466 Business Project 45

Optional modules

60 credits of optional modules from the following closed list:

CodeModule Credits
BEMM394 Entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation 15
BEMM462 Operations Analytics 15
BEMM463 Marketing Analytics 15
BEMM464 Strategic and HR Analytics 15
BEMM465 Environmental Analytics 15
BEMM486 Design Intelligence 15
BEMM488 Entrepreneurship and Complete Sustainable Value Creation 15
BEMM783 Supply Chain Analytics 15
COM2017 Introduction to Prompt Engineering 15
SSIM916 Machine learning for social data science 15

Fees

January 2025 entry

UK fees per year:

£17,800 full-time

International fees per year:

£29,500 full-time

September 2025/26 entry 

UK fees per year:

£18,600 full-time

International fees per year:

£30,700 full-time

Scholarships

We invest heavily in scholarships for talented prospective Masters students. This includes over £5 million in scholarships for international students, such as our Global Excellence Scholarships*.

For more information on scholarships, please visit our scholarships and bursaries page.

*Selected programmes only. Please see the Terms and Conditions for each scheme for further details.

It was such an honour for me to receive the Global Excellence award from Exeter. I felt like I had something to contribute to the university as a student, not only on an educational level, but on a professional level too.

Phuong

MSc Business Analytics

Teaching and research

Our research is rated as world-leading or internationally excellent in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

Our research-led teaching is combined with practical experiences such as field trips and project work, so that you can apply your learning to real world scenarios. Upon graduation, you will have the skills and knowledge to pursue the career you want, wherever in the world you choose to work.

Our programmes cover a range of disciplines including entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, human resource management, and tourism. With strong links to organisations across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, and with professional organisations such as the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), we ensure that your Masters degree is widely recognised in today’s global marketplace.

You will be taught by internationally respected academics who are at the forefront of their research. We draw upon disciplines across the social sciences and give emphasis to the dynamic nature of enterprise, global connectivity and the management and leadership of the global challenges that lie ahead.

The Business School is home to the following research centres:

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Careers

Graduation

Through innovative and practical learning you will have the ability to use data and analytics confidently and creatively, in order to resolve a wide range of operational and strategic problems that face global organisations across multiple sectors.

Your future career

After graduation, you will join our community of more than 26,000 Business School alumni in over 150 different countries who are actively shaping the world around us. Graduates can look to work in a diverse range of roles including:

  • Business Consultant
  • Data Consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Supply Chain Analyst
  • Marketing Analyst
  • HR Analyst
  • Business Manager

Opportunities range from working in large analytics and consultancy teams within corporations in sectors such as consulting, tech and finance, through to specialist analytical roles in areas such as procurement, HR, and marketing within smaller private, public and third sector organisations.  The increasing importance of analytics skills within Executive Management teams means that students will also be well placed to succeed in Graduate Management schemes.

Developing your skills and career prospects

The University of Exeter Business School provides a range of support to help you develop skills attractive to employers. Visit our postgraduate Business School careers service web page for more information.

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Enhance your degree with Study Abroad opportunities

QTEM Programme*

After your first year of studies at Exeter, you can progress onto the QTEM Programme. QTEM aims to prepare students with excellent quantitative and analytical skills to support their future careers as decision makers leading the global business environment.

If you are accepted onto the QTEM Programme, you will spend an additional semester studying at one of the prestigious academic partners. This will be followed by a quantitatively focussed internship and participation in the QTEM Data Challenge which includes online data science and leadership courses as well real data analysis.

Students will be selected and nominated to QTEM by the University of Exeter Business School following a competitive internal application process. Places are limited so we recommend you register your interest before applying for your Masters.

*Open to high achieving students enrolled in the following University of Exeter Business School programmes: MSc Financial Economics, MSc Finance, MSc Finance and Investment, MSc Economics, and MSc Business Analytics. 

For more information on QTEM and Double Degrees and other postgraduate study abroad opportunities, visit the Business School’s Study Abroad webpages.

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