Business Analytics: Co-operative Education Programme – Cohort 2020/2021

Overview

The Bachelor of Science (Business Analytics) degree programme is an inter-disciplinary undergraduate degree programme offered by the School of Computing with participation from the Business School, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This is a four-year direct honours programme which offers a common two-year broad-based inter-disciplinary curriculum where all students will read courses in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Decision Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems. Students in their third and fourth years of study may choose elective courses from three lists of either functional or methodological or technological elective courses. Functional elective courses span business functions or sectors of marketing, retailing, logistics, healthcare, etc. Methodological elective courses include those related to big data techniques, statistics, text mining, data mining, social network analysis, econometrics, forecasting, operations research, etc. In sum, these elective courses span the most exciting and challenging areas of business analytics practice in the industry today.

Students in the Co-operative programme who aim for Honours (Highest Distinction) must pass the BT4101 and count it towards unrestricted electives. Students with GPA of 4.00 or higher after completing at least 70% (i.e. 112 units) of the total unit requirement for the degree programme may apply to read BT4101 (12 units).

Note that the BT4101 project selection process takes place one semester ahead of the semester in which the students commence BT4101. Thus the students can tentatively select BT4101 projects; but the condition “GPA of 4.00 or higher after completing at least 70% (112 units) of the total unit requirement for the degree programme” must be satisfied before they can commence BT4101.

University Scholars Programme (Business Analytics)

Students in the University Scholars Programme (USP) who choose the Bachelor of Science (Business Analytics) Co-operative Education programme will do so with the following variations:

  • They will read GER1000 Quantitative Reasoning (4 units) as compulsory course for the University Level Requirements (ULR). The remaining 16 units in ULR are replaced by the 3 USP Inquiry Courses and 1 USP Foundation course ( i.e. University Scholars Seminar).
  • They will not be required to read IS2101 Business and Technical Communication in the Core courses requirement. It is replaced by USP Foundation course: Writing and Critical Thinking.
  • They will read the remaining USP requirements under Unrestricted Electives.  

Summary of degree requirements for BSc (Business Analytics) - Co-operative Education Programme

Courses

Units

Sub totals

UNIVERSITY LEVEL REQUIREMENTS 1 20
PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS 120
Core Courses64 
BT1101 Introduction to Business Analytics4 
CS1010S Programming Methodology4 
EC1301 Principles of Economics 24 
IS1103 Ethics in Computing or
IS1108 Digital Ethics and Data Privacy
4 
MA1311 Matrix Algebra or
MA1522 Linear Algebra for Computing or
MA1101R/MA2001 Linear Algebra I 3
4 
MA1521 Calculus for Computing or
MA1102R/MA2002 Calculus 3
4 
MKT1705X Principles of Marketing4 

BT2101 Decision Making Methods and Tools (old)

BT2101 Econometrics Modeling for Business Analytics

4 
BT2102 Data Management and Visualisation4 
CS2030 Programming Methodology II4 
CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms4 
IS2101 Business and Technical Communication 44 
ST2334 Probability and Statistics 54 
BT3102 Computational Methods for Business Analytics4 
BT3103 Application Systems Development for Business Analytics4 
IS3103 Information Systems Leadership and Communication4 
Programme Electives (PE)24 

Choose 6 courses to make up 24 units from Lists A, B and C, with at least 2 courses each from List A and List B. 5 of 6 courses must be at level-4000.

List A (Business Applications):
DBA3712 Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management
IE3120 Manufacturing Logistics
IS3150 Digital Media Marketing
IS3240 Digital Platform Strategy and Architecture
BT4013 Analytics for Capital Market Trading and Investment
BT4016 Risk Analytics for Financial Services
BT4211 Data-Driven Marketing
BT4212 Search Engine Optimization and Analytics
DBA4811 Analytical Tools for Consulting
IS4241 Social Media Network Analysis
IS4242 Intelligent Systems and Techniques
IS4250 IT-enabled Healthcare Solutioning
MKT4812 Marketing Analytics

List B (Analytics Methods):
BT3017 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS3244 Machine Learning
CS4248 Natural Language Processing
IE2110 Operations Research I 6 or DBA3701 Introduction To Optimisation
DBA3803 Predictive Analytics in Business
ST3131 Regression Analysis 6a
BSE4711 Econometrics for Business II
BT4012 Fraud Analytics
BT4015 Geospatial Analytics
BT4221 Big Data Techniques and Technologies
BT4222 Mining Web Data for Business Insights
BT4240 Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics
BT4241 Causal Impact Analytics for Business Applications
IS4241 Social Media Network Analysis
IE4210 Operations Research II
ST4245 Statistical Methods for Finance

List C (Technology Implementation):
IS3107 Data Engineering
IS3221 ERP Systems with Analytics Solutions
IS3261 Mobile Apps Development for Enterprise
BT4014 Analytics Driven Design of Adaptive Systems
BT4301 Business Analytics Solutions Development and
Deployment

IS4226 Systematic Trading Strategies and Systems
IS4228 Information Technologies in Financial Services
IS4234 Compliance and Regulation Technology
IS4246 Smart Systems and AI Governance
IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
IS4303 IT-Mediated Financial Solutions and Platforms 

Specialisations
Students may choose to read one or more specialisations for the BSc(Business Analytics) programme.  In the case of common courses between these specialisations, the extent of double counting should be no more than 8 units among the specialisation(s).

To be awarded the Financial Analytics Specialisation, students must satisfy the followings at 20 units:

Set I (Select any 2 courses) 7:
• BT4013 Analytics for Capital Market Trading and Investment
• BT4016 Risk Analytics for Financial Services
• IS4228 Information Technologies in Financial Services

Set II (select any 3 courses):
• BT4012 Fraud Analytics
• BT4221 Big Data Techniques and Technologies
• BT4222 Mining Web Data for Business Insights
• IS3107 Data Engineering
• IS4226 Systematic Trading Strategies and Systems
• IS4234 Compliance and Regulation Technology
• IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

To be awarded the Marketing Analytics Specialisation, students must satisfy the followings at 20 units:

Set I (Select any 2 courses) 7:
• BT4211 Data-Driven Marketing
• BT4212 Search Engine Optimization and Analytics
• BT4222 Mining Web Data for Business Insights

Set II (Select any 3 courses):
• BT3017 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
• BT4014 Analytics Driven Design of Adaptive Systems
• BT4015 Geospatial Analytics
• BT4221 Big Data Techniques and Technologies
• IS3107 Data Engineering
• IS3240 Digital Platform Strategy and Architecture
• IS4234 Compliance and Regulation Technology
• IS4241 Social Media Network Analysis

Machine Learning-based Analytics Specialisation (new)

To be awarded the Machine Learning-based Analytics Specialisation, students must satisfy the followings at 20 units:

Set I (Select any 2 courses) 7:
• BT3017 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
• BT4222 Mining Web Data for Business Insights
• IS4242 Intelligent Systems and Techniques

Set II (Select any 3 courses):
• BT4012 Fraud Analytics
• BT4221 Big Data Techniques and Technologies
• BT4240 Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics
• BT4301 Business Analytics Solutions Development and
Deployment

• CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• CS3244 Machine Learning
• IS3107 Data Engineering
• IS4246 Smart Systems and AI Governance

All courses are 4 units each. 
Co-Operative Internship Scheme32 
BT2010 Business Analytics Immersion Programme6 
BT4010 Business Analytics Internship Programme 812 
BT4011 Business Analytics Capstone Industry Project 914 
UNRESTRICTED ELECTIVES 20
Grand Total 160

Footnotes:

1 Students can refer to: https://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/academic-information-policies/undergraduate-students/general-education for the requirements for University Level Requirements..

2 EC1301 will not be offered in AY2021-22. Students who take either EC1101E Introduction to Economic Analysis or BT coded course that is not served to fulfil the core or programme elective requirement of the degree can use it in place of EC1301.

3 Students are encouraged to take these MA course options should they wish to pursue a more rigorous treatment of the subject topics covered.  

4 Taught by the Centre for English Language Communication.

5 If a student has taken (ST2131 or MA2216 or MA2116) and ST2132, then the student does not need to take ST2334.

6 Students are encouraged to take IE2110 should they wish to choose IE4210 as an elective course.

6a Business analytics students who are doing or contemplating to do minor/second major requiring ST3131 such as Statistics which has more than allowed overlap cannot double count ST3131 towards fulfilling the Business Analytics programme elective requirement.

7 Students can choose to do all three courses from Set I and count one of them towards Set II to fulfil the course requirement for the specialisation.

8 BT4010 is equivalent to IS4010 (which is offered in regular programme).

9 BT4011 covers the equivalent contents to BT4103