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Business Analytics ( BA) is becoming increasingly important in the business world. From large corporations to start-ups, all players recognise that it provides essential tools for management control and the consolidation of information relevant to decision-making. There is a growing demand for professionals specialising in BA who possess a solid background in finance and business, as well as advanced analytical skills based on data science. These are professionals capable of taking on a strategic and decisive role in any area of business. In fact, demand for this digital professional profile is forecast to grow by 3,000 new jobs in Spain during 2020.
Business Analytics brings insight, knowledge, accessibility and transparency to any organisation. It is essential for providing relevant information to a company’s decision-makers.
At present, consultancy and audit firms acknowledge that they face difficulties in finding professionals with expertise in BA. So much so that in 2019, 50 per cent of the recruits taken on by the Big Four ( Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young and KPMG) were engineers who required additional training and onboarding in the business sector.
Where can you study Business Analytics?
Alfonso X el Sabio University is anticipating this growing need by designing, in collaboration with the Big Four – the world’s leading consulting and auditing firms – a competitive and disruptive training programme to meet the real demand for professionals specialising in Business Analytics, shaping a career path that is already one of the professions with the greatest prospects for future success.
For over 25 years, UAX has maintained close ties with society and the business world , adapting its value proposition to the present and future challenges we face. The Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics perfectly embodies this philosophy: a comprehensive, bilingual and innovative training model designed to prepare professionals to successfully lead the way in the business intelligence of the future. In this academically rigorous programme, which will commence in the 2020/21 academic year, students will be supported by practising professionals from the Big Four – the best partners for gaining an insight into the professional reality that awaits them after their university studies.
Our ‘Big 4 reasons’ to study Business Analytics:
1. Business Analytics: the choice for the future
In partnership with Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young and KPMG, UAX has designed a programme centred on the business world to train experts in BA : experts in data engineering and technology within the financial and business sectors, playing a decisive role in key decision-making for business growth.
Students on the UAX Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics will have access to over 1,000 hours of practical training at these multinational firms. It is, therefore, a unique opportunity to grow professionally from the very first years of the course, developing a career plan tailored to the reality they will face in their day-to-day working lives.
2. Business training and data technology: an unstoppable combination
Data and analytics are now an essential part of any company’s day-to-day operations. It is no surprise, then, that there is an ever-increasing demand for professionals specialising in extracting and analysing such data. And all the signs suggest that, over the next five years, the number of data specialists working in large companies could increase by more than 240 per cent.
3. The UAX Campus, next to Madrid’s financial district
UAX will deliver this bilingual (50 per cent in English) four-year degree programme at its Madrid-Chamartín campus, very close to Madrid’s financial centre, where the Big Four, amongst other major companies, are based.
Students will also have the opportunity to undertake study placements at leading universities in Europe or the USA. Thanks to these international learning experiences, future BI graduates will develop a more competitive profile, tailored to the needs of a globalised world.
4. Talent and hard work are rewarded
Aware of the challenge posed by the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics, UAX ensures that no bright young person faces obstacles of any kind when deciding on their future. To this end, the UAX Talent Grants programme has been launched, where students with the most outstanding academic records will receive crucial support to undertake their studies thanks to their excellent performance.
Welcome to your future: Big dreams. Big Opportunities. Big Four.
