Bangalore: IBM and Galgotias University (GU), Delhi NCR in a landmark initiative in India, launched a futuristic full time MBA Program in Business Analytics to help organizations build better skilled resources in areas of managerial decision making and strategy. The curriculum of the program has been developed jointly for better industry alignment and will be delivered by both GU faculty and experts from IBM.

The new MBA Program aims to create managers and leaders who understand the implications of humongous volume of data generated by the enterprises today. With the rise of multimedia including social media this has become an integral need from corporate leaders. With the MBA Program in analytics the students will be able to help their employers gain better customer insights, manage risk, and financial metrics more effectively, and help strive for unique market differentiation. The program covers all the relevant general management topics and includes the courses on Descriptive and Predictive Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data and Financial Planning. In later semesters the focus is on Business Analytics in various industries like Retail, Manufacturing, BFSI and more.

 “This is the very first time in India that IBM has partnered with a University to work on the Management Studies program. Given the large amounts of new data created every single minute, analytics skills are no longer just a requirement for the IT professional, they are becoming increasingly important for businesses as well,” says Sudhir Sastry, Software Group Technical Sales Leader, IBM India / SA. “We are so pleased to be working with Galgotias University to help them explore new and innovative ways to bridge business and technical skills together.”