Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
The Graduate Certificate in in Health Information Privacy and Security combines expertise in health information and a focus on essential information security issues. It equips students with the knowledge, skills and abilities highly desirable to organizations seeking guidance to prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with privacy laws and regulations in handling health information in Business Analytics provides business and technology practitioners and other professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to collaborate in the design, development, and adoption of Business Analytics applications in organizations.
Business Analytics refers to a broad category of applications, technologies, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing internal and external data to help decision-makers analyze business situations and make fact-based, informed decisions which will trigger improvement actions.
Course Prerequisites
Students enrolled in courses for the online Graduate Accelerated Programs (GAP) must be registered and pay all tuition, fees, and assessments by the program’s deadline each semester.
Grading Policy
Candidates for the certificate will be expected to complete course requirements with a grade of B (3.0) or better (a grade of B- or lower is not acceptable).
Program Requirements
If MIS 513 has been taken as part of another MIS graduate certificate, the student must substitute an additional UIS Management Information Systems course, not included as a required course in another certificate.
All MBA students may substitute MIS 525 for MIS 513 as the content of MIS 525 fulfills the requirements of MIS 513 for these specific requirements.
Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| MIS 513 | Management Information Systems | 3 |
| MIS 542 | Management of Database Systems | 3 |
| MIS 576 | Data Mining for Business Analytics | 3 |
| Total Hours | 9 | |