Administrative Office No.: 0824-2425966
(Evening Program, 3 days/week, Tuesday to Thursday)
Eligibility : MBA/M.Com./M.Sc. of any UGC recognized University with 50 % Marks
Duration : One year (3 Trimester Program)
M.Phil. in Big Data & Business Analytics is a super specialization course designed to meet growing needs of expertise required in 21st century business management. The course contents are designed to cope the essentials of fundamental knowledge and advanced skills required to an effective decision maker in big data handling environment. By keeping the entry level as postgraduates in any business, commerce or technical subjects, the course contents spreading three trimesters with 12 core subjects and one master industry level project lifts the participants to advanced level as multi-disciplinary backed decision makers. This will add strength to their lateral thinking beyond the imagination while handling critical situations to make optimum decisions in global bigdata environment. The course is offered to working professionals during evening time with weekly three days contact based training and other three days self-study through online distributed software/assignment work. The course also facilitates the postgraduates who want to grow quickly through identifying and encashing attractive opportunities or accelerated promotions in their job with an objective and true sense of creating innovators.
Business Analytics also known as Business Intelligence (BI) has become strategically important for every organisation to keep competitive advantage by extracting meaningful information from the flood of digital data collected by businesses, government, and scientific agencies (big data). The recent years have seen explosive growth of digital data stored in computer databases. With continued innovation revolving around digital technologies, the Internet and mobile computing, the amount of data continues to grow exponentially. At this rate, there will soon be a shortage of talented analysts who can help organisations work with this much big data. McKinsey Global Institute’s Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity estimates that by 2018, “The United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions”. The earning opportunity through job & consultancy work for Business Analytics Experts is 5 to 10 times more than other professions in the society.
| S.No | SUBJECT | Marks | Study Hours |
| TRIMESTER 1 (15 weeks) | |||
| 1 | Introduction to Big Data & Data visualization | 100 | 40 |
| 2 | R – Programming Fundamentals (T&P) | 100 | 40 |
| 3 | Data warehousing and Data Mining (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 4 | Big Data Technologies (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 5 | Database Systems in Big Data (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 6 | Optimization & Predictive Analytics (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| TRIMESTER 2 (15 weeks) | |||
| 1 | Hadoop Distributed File Systems (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 2 | Financial analytics and HR Analytics | 100 | 40 |
| 3 | Big Data & Multimedia Analytics (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 4 | Data Mining Application with R (T & P) | 100 | 40 |
| 5 | Text & Marketing Analytics | 100 | 40 |
| 6 | Digital & Social Media Analytics / Supply Chain Analytics | 100 | 40 |
| TRIMESTER 3 (12 weeks) | |||
| 1 | Project & Viva | 600 | – |
| Total Marks | 1,800 | – | |
