Business Analytics

According to the Singapore Economic Development Board, analytics has been identified as a
growth sector that will contribute S$1 billion dollars to the economy by the end of 2017. There
will be a need for an additional 2,500 analytics professionals in the next five years. The demand
for well-trained analytics professionals with undergraduate degrees is envisaged to exceed the
supply of such professionals.

The Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics with Minor is a four-year direct honours
programme. Students are required to complete a total of 200 credit units (cu), inclusive of 40 cu
of Common Curriculum courses. The Common Curriculum courses are first-year inter-
disciplinary courses designed to hone students’ conceptual, analytical and writing abilities along
with their communication skills. Students are also required to complete a 24-week work
attachment, an overseas experience and a service-learning project. SUSS aims to produce
graduates who are professionally competent, social-minded and self-directed learners.

The academic admission requirements to the full-time programme are: (a) at least three passes
in H2 content subjects; or (b) a local polytechnic diploma, or an international baccalaureate
diploma or a diploma from NUS High School; or (c) an equivalent of (a) or (b). Applicants with
(c) have to submit SAT1 scores. There will be additional admission criteria to select students
who are aligned to the educational philosophy of our full-time programmes. This will be done
through interviews and selection tests.

In addition, applicants are required to meet one of the following minimum eligibility criteria:
• At least a B4 grade in GCE ‘O’ level Mathematics, or
• A pass in GCE ‘O’ level Additional Mathematics, or
• A pass in GCE ‘H1’ level Mathematics or Statistics, or
• A pass in GCE ‘A’ level Mathematics
Mathematics courses taken at the diploma level will be considered if applicants do not meet the
above minimum eligibility criteria.

Graduates are trained in the application of a broad array of analytics techniques such as
visualisation, data mining, text mining, statistics, forecasting and optimisation using analytics
software so that they can apply them in a broad spectrum of organisations and sectors, including
government, healthcare and medicine, community, business, social services – essentially any
organisation with a lot of data that require analytical insights.
Students pursuing the full-time Major-Minor programmes are required to complete 200 credit
units (cu), which include:
• 40 cu of Common Curriculum
• 100 cu of Major Courses: 95 cu Compulsory Courses + 5 cu Elective Course
• 40 cu of Minor Courses
• 10 cu of an Integrative Course
• 10 cu of an Applied Project
 Business Analytics Major-Minor Programme

• CCO101 Thinking and Reasoning

• CCO103 Critical Readings
• CCO105 Social Research
• CCO107 World Histories and Issues
• CCO201 Culture and Diversity
40 cu • CCO203 Sustainability, Technology and
Common Society
Curriculum
• Elective 1 *
Courses
• Elective 2 *

* Elective 1 & Elective 2 are courses

offered by SUSS to be taken in the
evening outside your major. For more
details, please refer to our website.
Business Analytics Major – Major Elective -
Compulsory 95 cu 5 cu (Choose 1)

• ACC202 Financial & Managerial • ANL351 SAS Programming and its

Accounting
• ANL101e Statistics using R
• ANL201 Data Visualisation for Business •
• ANL302 Selected Topics in Regression
• ANL303 Fundamentals of Data Mining
Application
• ANL353 Credit Risk Modeling
ANL355 Applied Operations Research
• ICT321 Database Systems – Modelling
& Design

• ANL305 Association & Clustering • MKT355 Multivariate Analysis

• ANL307 Predictive Modelling • MKT390 Marketing Research

100 cu • ANL309 Business Analytics Applications

Major Courses • ANL311e Selected Topics in Business
Analytics
• ANL312e Text Mining & Applied Project
Formulation
• ANL317 Business Forecasting
• ANL319 Introduction to Big Data
• ANL321 Statistical Methods
• BUS100 Business Skills and
Management
• BUS107 Quantitative Methods
• BUS201 Contract and Agency Law
• BUS204 Business Excellence
 • ECO201 Managerial Economics
• FIN303 Financial Management
• HRM203 Human Behaviour in
Organisations
• MKT202 Marketing Management
Minor Courses (to be taken in the
• Accountancy
evening)
• Communication
Please note that not all courses are
• Contemporary China Studies
presented every semester and some
• Human Resource Management
40 cu courses have pre-requisites. You are to
• Information Technology
Minor Courses select ONE minor from the list of minors
• Political Science
available.
• Psychology
• Sociology
Please refer to the website for more details
• Supply Chain Management
about the minor courses.

20 cu • BUS489 Strategy for Business

Integrative Course & • ANL488 Business Analytics Applied
Applied Project Project

• 24-weeks Work Attachment

Compulsory Non • Overseas Experience
Credit Programme • Service-Learning Project
Graduation • Teambuilding / Life Skills / Career
Requirement Preparatory Workshop
• e-Portfolio