Graduate Certificate in Business Intelligence

Organizations are now able to gather large amounts of data and information, but what they do with that data is crucial. Professionals with business intelligence (BI) skillsets are in high demand to make sense of the numbers and harness data collections to create meaningful opportunities.  

With the Graduate Certificate in Business Intelligence, students will learn how to enable, support, and create a data-driven culture in any organization. The courses take you on a deep dive into the world of business intelligence and analytics, the art of data transformation, statistical analysis and predictive modeling.  

With hands-on experience designing with popular BI tools and techniques, the curriculum blends theory and practical application, including implementing, manipulating, and managing databases. 

Every credit earned in this certificate can later be applied toward the CSU College of Business’s online or on-campus Master of Computer Information Systems after formal admission per the University transfer policies. Successful completion of the certificate does not guarantee degree program admission. 

What You'll Learn:

• Foundational knowledge of the field of Business Intelligence, including its impacts, capabilities and role in decision-making. 

• Hands-on experience with relevant and popular BI technologies and vendors shaping the industry. 

• Standard functions, processes and BI methods such as reporting, data and text mining processes and related methodologies, complex event processing, performance management, and predictive and prescriptive analytics 

• Importance and methods of data mining and its applications in business, including methods/techniques for prediction, classification, segmentation, association and textual analysis. 

• How to build, run and validate data mining models and interpret results 

• Basic theories and principles behind effective data visualization. 

• Relational database management systems and their value to business enterprises with hands-on experience with data analysis, database design, database administration and more.  

• Analyze, design, administer and model in database systems.