Master of GIS and Data Analytics

This online master’s program focuses on business analytics skills for practical decision-making in organizations. It equips students with data analytics, data interpretation, spatial methods, communication, ethics, and project leadership abilities.

Program Overview

This online master’s program in GIS and data analytics gives students the skills to make practical, data-driven business decisions in organizations. Students will develop technical expertise in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data in a business context, answering business questions with data-driven answers.

Students will learn in these areas:

  • Data Analytics: Interpret data to draw conclusions about patterns and trends.
  • Spatial Research Methods: Employ appropriate spatial research methods within an interdisciplinary context.
  • Spatial Thinking & Analysis: Apply spatial thinking in interdisciplinary settings for effective decision making.
  • Communication: Create effective verbal, written, or visual communication to meet the needs of varied audiences.
  • Ethics: Evaluate privacy or ethical issues for data gathering, use, and applications in the context of professional standards.
  • Project Planning & Leadership: Create effective strategies for managing geographic information systems (GIS) and data analytics projects, programs, and initiatives.

Next Session

Spring I (Jan 6, 2025)

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Online

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    Admission Requirements

    Applicants for this master's degree program must complete the formal application process with all required documents, which include:

    • Completed application
    • 2.75 grade point average (GPA)
    • Official transcripts from all regionally accredited institutions where baccalaureate and/or post-baccalaureate coursework was completed or attempted
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    Only credits from regionally accredited institutions may be accepted in transfer. Failure to report any previous academic work at another college or university may be considered a violation of academic integrity.

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    Master of GIS and Data Analytics Program Curriculum

    • The MGISDA program consists of two segments. The first segment is the MGISDA Core consisting of 24 credits. The second segment of the MGISDA program consists of 12 credits of electives.  
      OLCU 501
        Organizational Research

      3

      BUSU 610
        Data Analysis for Decision Making

      3

      BUSU 670
        Data Foundations

      3

      BUSU 661
        Data Analytics and Toolkit

      3

      BUSU 663
        Database Solutions

      3

      BUSU 671
        Data Visualization and Presentation

      3

      BUSU 672
        Project Planning and Data Modeling

      3

      BUSU 673
        Project implementation and Analysis

      3

         

       

      Core Requirements Subtotal 24
       Electives 12
      Total Credits 36
         
      MGISDA students may select an individualized set of electives from the graduate courses listed in the following discipline areas: Accounting, Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Geographic Information Systems, Human Resources, International Business, Organizational Leadership, Marketing, and Computer Science. Successful completion of the University of California, Irvine Extension Project Management Certificate, as described in the Transfer Credit Policy, may substitute for the described MGISDA electives.



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