Graduate Certificate: Management Analytics
Accelerate Your Career with Analytics-Driven Strategy
Upgrade your Business Skills
In today’s fast-moving business world, data isn’t just numbers—it’s the key to making smarter decisions, solving complex problems, and staying ahead of the competition. The Graduate Certificate in Management Analytics gives you the tools to turn raw data into actionable insights, giving you a competitive edge in any industry.
Through four graduate-level courses, this program helps you:
- Transform complex data into clear, strategic business recommendations
- Build predictive models to optimize operations, marketing, logistics, and finance
- Solve real-world business challenges and communicate insights with confidence
With hands-on learning and industry-relevant tools like data mining, optimization, and simulation, you’ll develop the expertise to navigate today’s data-driven economy. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your decision-making skills, step into a leadership role, or future-proof your career, this certificate gives you the edge to make an impact.
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Fast-Track Your MBA
Earning the Graduate Certificate in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics isn’t just an opportunity to build in-demand skills—it’s also a stepping stone toward your Haskayne MBA. With 12 units of graduate coursework, you can seamlessly ladder your certificate into the full MBA program, giving you a head start.
This flexible option allows you to gain specialized expertise now while keeping the door open for future career growth and leadership opportunities.
What Will I Learn?
To earn a certificate, students must complete four required courses. This in-person program can be completed in 8 to 10 months, with the flexibility to take two courses per term to fit your schedule.
Two required courses:
Discover tools, methods and software packages used in data analytics to collect, organize, and prepare clean data for analysis.
Application of data-driven predictive models to solve real-life business problems in operations, marketing, finance and other business functions. Techniques covered include decision trees, classification and association rules, and cluster analysis.
Two elective courses:
Explore and understand the fast-moving and recent technological improvements in various industries and how they change the conventional thinking and trading in the banking and finance industry.
Advanced quantitative decision-making and problem-solving skills in business environments with data and fact-based analysis. Techniques such as data-driven optimization, deterministic and probabilistic modeling, and simulation are covered through case studies.
Develop and implement marketing strategies driven by data analytic techniques. Key marketing concepts will be integrated with segmentation analytics and social media analytics.
Optimal design and management of supply chains with analytical tools. Topics include network design, inventory management, transportation, contracting, coordination and collaboration, capacity management, and customer-supplier relations.
A data-driven approach to the analysis of the international business environment. Use of data analytics to appraise emerging trends in a country/region/world business environment and derive strategic implications for business enterprises.
Admissions
To be admitted into this graduate certificate program, applicants must have completed either (a) an undergraduate degree with a GPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0) in a quantitative-focused area such as Business/Commerce, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science or Technology, or (b) Master of Business Administration, Master of Management, or (c) an equivalent degree with a GPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0) from a recognized/accredited post-secondary institution. Prior work experience is not a requirement for admission.
Applicants for whom English is not a first language must complete either:
- IELTS: a minimum of 7.0 on the Academic version, with at least 6.0 in each section.
- TOEFL: a minimum of 97 (iBT version) with at least 20 in each section.
For additional information on admission criteria, please refer to the university's Academic Calendar.
For additional information, contact: gradcert@haskayne.ucalgary.ca
Note that the certificate program accepts new students for each fall term. Applications open September 15 and close on June 1 each year.
Meet your Faculty
Dr. Raymond Patterson, PhD
Dr. Patterson, Professor of Business Technology Management (BTM), holds the Haskayne Research Professorship in BTM and serves as the BTM Area Chair at the Haskayne.
Dr. Osman Alp, PhD
Dr. Osman Alp is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and serves as the Program Coordinator for the Digitization for Innovative Supply Chains (DISC) Consortium at the University of Calgary.
Meet your Recruiters
Choosing the right graduate program is a big decision — our recruitment team is here to help. Our dedicated team is ready to answer your questions and guide you through the application process.
Kofi Manu
Recruitment Specialist
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