Sharpen your skills in business analytics
SPC's Business Analyst Specialist Advanced Technical Certificate is perfect for those looking to play a major role in business operations, management, customer needs analysis, data flow, modeling and design, and continuous process improvement. As an analyst, you act as a bridge between business ideas and business capabilities and help decipher the future of businesses, by identifying, creating and scoping valuable changes and enhancements to business processes. You will learn analytical techniques in statistics, business modeling, and data visualization that will help decision-makers make intelligent data-driven decisions. You will also sharpen your skills in business acumen, architecture, communications, and development.
"In today’s business, the analyst is the right hand to a CEO and can be transformational. Without great data and without someone who can analyze that, you’re at a loss. Analysts are the key to success."
Meri Stockwell, President of the business and talent strategy organization Meritas Advisory Group and Chair of the College of Business Advisory CommitteeThis academic program prepares you for the following careers. All job data is provided by the U.S. Department of Labor. Additional job titles that graduates of this program may qualify for include business analyst specialist, business project analyst, business sales analyst, business operations analyst, competitive intelligence analyst, data analyst, financial business analyst, and market intelligence consultant and analyst.
Business Intelligence Analysts
Salary Data
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area Average
Florida Average
Projected employment for Florida
2023 Employment
8,470
2033
12,450
Percent Change
47
Projected Job Openings
1020
Skills you learn in the Business Analytics Specialist Certificate
- Conducting needs analysis for innovation and change using interviews, data, business intelligence, statistical analysis, and process improvement methodologies
- Decision making, risk mitigation, business reports, data interpretation, data modeling, project management, and business presentations
- Principles of a business analyst role and their importance a between business ideas, technology, and organizational capabilities
- Business modeling
- How to apply analytical statistics techniques as they relate to real world business issues
- Project management techniques that support innovation and change initiatives
- Data analysis through visualization techniques
- Evaluation of operational structures and continuous process improvement to drive business outcomes.
- Evaluation of business decision making and insights into solving real world business problems.
Business Analyst Specialist Advanced Technical Certificate with Financial Aid Eligibility
ANLST-ATC
Effective Beginning Catalog Term: Fall 2023 (625)
The requirements shown below are valid beginning Fall 2023 (625), and may not reflect degree requirements for current students. Current students should visit My SPC and view My Learning Plan to see specific degree requirements for their effective term.
Program Summary
This program may be completed Fully Online. This certificate prepares students for a career in business analytics. Students will learn analytical techniques in statistics, business modeling, and data visualization that will help decision-makers make intelligent data-driven decisions.”A Business Analyst acts as the bridge between business ideas and business capabilities. They play an incredibly important role as they help to decipher the future of businesses, by identifying, creating and scoping valuable changes and enhancements to business processes” (www.e-careers.com). The business skills learned are Business Acumen, Business Analytics, Business Architecture, Business Communications, Business Development.
Graduation Requirements
Minimum grade of "C" required in all courses.
Academic Pathways
The Academic Pathway is a tool for students that lists the following items:- the recommended order in which to take the program courses
- suggested course when more than one option exists
- which semester each course is typically offered
- if the course has a prerequisite
- courses that may lead to a certificate (if offered in the program)
Please verify the Academic Pathway lists your correct starting semester.
Program Leadership Information
Florida CIP Code
0530710266 - Business Analysis Specialist (ATC )
Federal CIP Code
30.7102 - Business Analytics.