Program: Business Analytics Minor - Appalachian State University

Apr 01, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Minor Code: 306

CIP Code: 11.0802

The Business Analytics minor (15 hours) is available to all BSBA majors.

The minor is designed for business majors who want to strengthen their abilities to use data to make better business decisions. The minor will provide students with skills in collecting and managing data, designing experiments, programming, detecting patterns in data (e.g., data mining and data visualization), and using data to test predictive models and hypotheses.

Students pursuing a business analytics minor must take the following required and elective courses.

Required Courses (9 hours)

Elective Courses (6 hours)

Choose two courses from the following list:

* If not taken in required courses.

Note:

Prerequisites for 3000 level and 4000 level business courses, in addition to course specific prerequisites, are as follows: 54 earned hours for 3000 level business courses and 84 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C” in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course for 4000 level business courses.

A minimum overall GPA of 2.0 is required for the courses included in the minor.