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Business Analytics: Computational Intelligence
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Business Analytics: Computational Intelligence at at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Are you keen to harness the power of data science, statistics and machine learning to optimise results and achieve strategic objectives? Ready to combine insights from mathematics, computer science and economics with highly developed communication skills? The Master’s programme in Business Analytics will deepen your knowledge - making you key to the success of any organisation.
The programme has four tracks, giving you the opportunity to specialise in your own area of interest:
- Optimisation of Business Processes
- Computational Intelligence
- Financial Risk Management
- Research
You’ll finish with a six-month internship at a company, which is often the first step to a thriving career.
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Business Analytics: Computational Intelligence
Which patients are likely to develop serious coronavirus symptoms? What’s the probability of a consumer clicking on an advert on a website? Where is crime most likely to occur?
The answers to these questions can be found using algorithms from data mining and machine learning. They turn large amounts of data into useful information, using tools like artificial intelligence, big data, deep learning, evolutionary computing, data mining, data science and so on. This is one of the hottest scientific topics of this century – and it’s showing no signs of slowing down.
If you choose this track, you’ll take compulsory courses in the optimisation of business processes – including mathematical optimisation – and machine learning and its applications, such as dynamic programming and reinforcement learning.
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Business Analytics: Computational Intelligence
As a graduate from the Business Analytics Master’s programme, you’ll be familiar with all the steps from data to solution, including the skills required to communicate to stakeholders and convince them of your advice.
You’ll be well-prepared either to focus on a single step in the process – becoming a specialist – or to take a broad view, sitting at the centre of the web in data science projects. In both cases, Business Analytics alumni are extremely valuable to all sorts of organisations.
Both the private and public sectors are constantly looking for ways to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Your skills as a business analyst are in such high demand that you may receive job offers before you graduate or at the company where you completed your internship.
And there’s more: even during your studies you could easily find yourself taking on a part-time job as a junior data analyst or programmer. While your fellow students are waiting tables or stocking shelves, you could well be generating extra income while picking up highly relevant work experience.
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Business Analytics: Computational Intelligence
I have an international degree
The Business Analytics programme is open to both Dutch and international students. The Faculty’s Admission Board will decide upon your admission after having evaluated your complete online application.
In order to gain admission to the Business Analytics Master’s programme, you will need to have at least a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited research university including at least three full years of academic study amounting to a minimum of 180 ECTS or equivalent. We do not require a GRE or GMAT test score.
Specific requirements for the Business Analytics Master’s programme
For admission to the Business Analytics programme, a Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics or a closely related Bachelor is required. In general, we expect the following subjects to be part of your Bachelor's programme:
- 90 ECTS or equivalent of Mathematics/Econometrics/Computer Science courses at the Bachelor's level.
- 45 ECTS or equivalent of Mathematics courses at the Bachelor's level, including Probability and Statistics.
- at least one course (6 ECTS) of programming in Java or Python
General English language proficiency requirements
VU Amsterdam requires all applicants to take an English test. You can, however, begin your application without having the test results. Exceptions are made for students who have completed a Bachelor's or Master's in Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia,
or who have obtained an international Baccalaureate or European Baccalaureate diploma.
The minimum English language proficiency requirements for admission to this Master's programme are:
- IELTS: 6.5 overall
- TOEFL Internet-based test: 92 overall
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE): A, B, C
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): A, B, C
I have a Dutch university level (WO) Bachelor's degree (VU Bachelor's degree, VU Pre-Master or a Bachelor's degree at another university)
The Business Analytics programme is open to both Dutch and international students with a Bachelor’s degree in the same or an equivalent field and who are in possession of sufficient mathematical and computer skills. Those who have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Mathematics, Mathematics or Econometrics from a university or an institute of higher education will be admitted if approval of the Admission Board is obtained. The Faculty’s Admission Board will decide upon your admission after having evaluated your complete online application.
In order to gain admission to the Business Analytics Master’s programme, you will need to have at least a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited research university including at least three full years of academic study amounting to a minimum of 180 ECTS or equivalent. We do not require a GRE or GMAT test score.
Specific requirements for the Business Analytics master’s programme
For admission to the Business Analytics programme, a Bachelor degree in Business Analytics or a closely related Bachelor is required. In general, we expect the following subjects to be part of your Bachelor's programme:
- 90 ECTS or equivalent of Mathematics/Econometrics/Computer Science courses at the Bachelor's level.
- 45 ECTS or equivalent of Mathematics courses at the Bachelor's level, including Probability and Statistics.
- at least one course (6 ECTS) of programming in Java or Python
Admission to the dual programme
Admission to the dual Master's programme is granted to those who have a Business Analytics Bachelor's degree. For those with another university level Bachelor's degree, such as Mathematics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or a Bachelor's degree from a University of Applied Sciences (HBO), admission may be granted on an individual basis. Those seeking admission to the dual Master's programme should realise that admission also depends on obtaining suitable employment. Business Analytics has contacts with a number of companies that are interested in participating in this programme.
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Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105
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Facts about the Masters programme
Location
Amsterdam
Field of study
Information Technology & Telecommunications
Degree
Master of Science in Business Analytics
Language
English
Start
winter semester - September
Application deadline
Type of study
Full-time
Duration of study: 2 years
Tuition fees EU: 2168 EUR / year
Tuition fees Non EU: 15320 EUR / year
Facts about the Masters programme
Location
Amsterdam
Field of study
Information Technology & Telecommunications
Degree
Master of Science in Business Analytics
Language
English
Start
winter semester - September
Application deadline
Type of study
Full-time
Duration of study: 2 years
Tuition fees EU: 2168 EUR / year
Tuition fees Non EU: 15320 EUR / year