Graduate Certificate - Business Insights and Analytics (BI511)

Today’s businesses know that it is critical to stay on top of what’s next in their industry: the next trend, the next tool, the next technology. They are developing capacity within their organizations to use big data to derive insights for a more profitable future. Businesses have a growing need for professionals who can use data, analytics and business acumen to improve ROI, streamline and expedite processes, drive down costs, create smart products, and build better customer experiences

Humber’s Business Insights and Analytics graduate certificate program provides students with practical, in-demand skills in business; database management and programming; data analysis and interpretation; and decision-making and communications. It consists of a common platform of 21 core courses in business, database management, programming for machine learning and data analytics, plus 3 specialization stream courses in either Marketing or Operations.

Students also get the hands-on experience that industry demands with a 320-hour (minimum) work placement that will give them the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom to the real world. Students initiate the placement with the aid of faculty, targeting companies in the Greater Toronto Area. Placements may be completed on a part-time basis throughout the academic year, or full time during the term immediately following the program.

Graduates of this program will: • develop effective business strategies, tactics and processes based on data-driven analytics • support business decision making with advanced statistical and quantitative analysis; and advanced data visualization and communications tools and techniques • generate business insights by developing and using databases, big data and machine learning