Category: MSBA

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight: Joshua Larky, MSBA 2018

by canipec

Program:

Master of Science in Business Analytics & Student Executive Committee Member 2018

Student Name:

Joshua Larky

Graduating Class:

Class of 2018

Undergraduate Alma Mater:

University of Redlands, BS in Economics

About Joshua:

I strive to explore all areas of life that interest me, and have a very diverse range of activities and hobbies I like to partake in. I am an avid rock climber, who enjoys anything that’s either outdoors, physically strenuous, or both. I play online chess, love Legos, and am a very well-versed cook. I am an extroverted introvert and a numbers nerd. Humor is important to keeping us all sane, and I can tell a good joke (or two).

Proudest Accomplishment:

My senior honors thesis was two years in the making, and I’m proud of my grit and my ability to continue working on a project, year-round. I always wanted to conduct research in a way that had never been done before, and my project was new territory for the baseball and economics community. I studied baseball team valuations, revenues, and attendance, and how these metrics moved with the national and local economies of the past 15 years. My paper provided evidence for Major League Baseball’s economic resilience during the recent great recession. Presenting to my economics committee, family, and friends was a great experience, and will always be my fondest academic memory from college.

Why did you choose the MSBA Program?

I have been fascinated with sports statistics ever since I can remember, memorizing the statistics on the backs of baseball cards as a child. While my passion for baseball cards has since tapered off, my love for sports and competition never wavered, and I now hope to pursue a career in sports analytics. The Business Analytics program at McCombs seemed to be the best fit for making this dream a reality, exposing me to all the skills necessary to succeed in the industry (R, Python, SQL). Also, I was born in Austin (but moved to San Diego at 13 months old), so coming to UT is kind of like discovering the roots I never had the chance to previously explore.

What are you most looking forward to in your program?

I’m excited for all the professional opportunities that this program will expose me to. Applying to jobs and networking while in college was a daunting and intimidating task. Working on my professional strategy in this environment will build my confidence, and I’m interested to learn about all the interesting analytics careers that I currently don’t know exist. Oh, and the predictive modeling classes. I’m looking forward to those, too!

More on Texas MS Student Spotlight:

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight is a new feature showcasing the talent, background, and aspirations of the McCombs Master of Science Program students! Learn more about the Texas Master of Science in Business Analytics on our homepage.

Current Texas MS students interested in appearing in our student spotlight should contact their Program Coordinator regarding access to the Student Spotlight Survey.

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight: Monika Lodha, MSBA 2018

by canipec

Program:

Master of Science in Business Analytics

Student Name:

Monika Lodha

Graduating Class:

Class of 2018

Undergraduate Alma Mater:

Bachelor of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India

About Monika:

I am a graduate student at McCombs School of Business with the class of 2018, pursuing Master of Science in Business Analytics. I have a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and two years of professional experience with HSBC as a Business Analyst. My work experience so far has been quite diverse which includes working as an event manager, cofounding an educational consultancy startup, and as a part-time tutor teaching math to high school students, all of which eventually helped in improving my technical, organizational, leadership and marketing skills. People who know me the best describe me as a good dancer and I enjoy doing the same during leisure.

Proudest Accomplishment:

In any professional job I have ever worked in, I have always demonstrated the ability to deliver to the responsibilities shouldered upon me. While working with HSBC, I was given the responsibility to migrate a very crucial project to a visualization tool called QlikView. The huge cost associated with buying the license for having access to the data report was limiting the net productivity and was leading to a delay of the project deliverables by few months. During this course, I built an innovative tool within QlikView at no cost thus making the data report available to all business partners across the entire commercial banking analytics, and realizing its significance, it is now proposed to be deployed in other analytics teams within the firm. This was undoubtedly one of the most rewarding and proudest moments in my life as it earned me great appreciation from top leaders of the firm.

Why did you choose the MSBA Program?

My 2 year long experience with HSBC as a business analyst helped me understand the importance of not just doing the “right project” but to doing the “project right” through apt decisions. Having introduced to many data analysis tools made me realize the huge scope that analytics offered for business development along with its broad spectrum of applicability. But, I found myself lacking a foundation that would help me dive in and explore the analytics domain. MSBA at UT is exhilarating with its hands-on learning, highly competitive and collaborative setting in each of the courses with people from vivid backgrounds. In a short duration, we get to adapt and tackle the real-world situations, equip ourselves with required analytics skill-sets and make ourselves industry ready as analytics professionals. This really drove me to MSBA at UT.

What are you most looking forward to in your program?

My journey so far at UT has been very stimulating and has engaged me constantly into learning something new since the start. I feel fortunate to be amidst such a highly qualified cohort and am looking forward to learn from the analytical talents that each one of them has to offer. I am eagerly waiting for the upcoming corporate events that are aimed at making us familiar with corporate culture and network with some of the stalwarts and technical connoisseurs in analytics. I am keen at making the best out of the industry capstone project which would give me a quintessential exposure to the use and significance of analytics in business development while understanding the dynamics within the process.

More on Texas MS Student Spotlight:

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight is a new feature showcasing the talent, background, and aspirations of the McCombs Master of Science Program students! Learn more about the Texas Master of Science in Business Analytics on our homepage.

Current Texas MS students interested in appearing in our student spotlight should contact their Program Coordinator regarding access to the Student Spotlight Survey.

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight: Anurag Agarwal, MSBA 2018

by gabylio

Program:

Master of Science in Business Analytics & Student Executive Committee Member 2018

Student Name:

Anurag Agarwal

Graduating Class:

Class of 2018

About Anurag:

I’m 24 years old, currently an MSBA candidate at the McCombs School of Business. I obtained my bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2015. For the past two years, I was working with FICO as an Analytics Consultant where I built credit risk models for banks in the Europe and Middle East region. As part of my job, I traveled globally to advise clients with data-driven strategies for running several banking portfolios. Prior to FICO, during college, I also pursued a summer internship at York University, Toronto where I collaborated with neuroscientists doing quantitative analysis on problems related to Parkinson’s disease.

Proudest Accomplishment:

As Placement Manager during the senior year of my undergrad, I was leading a team of 40 students in building university-corporate relationships with the aim of improving job opportunities for graduating students. The year long effort included fostering relationships recruiters, organizing career fairs, arranging career development workshops for students, and framing the policies of placement activities. We were able to raise the number of job offers by 20% from last year. But more importantly, just looking at my classmates getting jobs as a result of my efforts was the most rewarding and satisfying experience of my life.

Why did you choose the MSBA Program?

I was already working as an Analytics Consultant and I honestly loved my job, so it was not an easy decision for me to take a break from my career to start school again. But at the same time I wanted to become better at what I was doing and expand my professional network. The MSBA program at McCombs is one of the most prestigious programs in the US. And I’m sure that completing this year long program will boost my career and help me achieve my long term career goals.

What are you most looking forward to in your program?

Expanding my professional network is definitely my prime goal for this program. I’m really looking forward to making solid friendships within the McCombs community that I can cherish for the rest of my life.

More on Texas MS Student Spotlight:

Texas MS #StudentSpotlight is a new feature showcasing the talent, background, and aspirations of the McCombs Master of Science Program students! Learn more about the Texas Master of Science in Business Analytics on our homepage.

Current Texas MS students interested in appearing in our student spotlight should contact their Program Coordinator regarding access to the Student Spotlight Survey.

Revisiting Fundamentals: Exploring Analytics with Professor Joydeep Ghosh

by akshatamohan

My classmates and I were fortunate to have the Advanced Predictive Modeling course taught by Dr. Joydeep Ghosh, where we learn more about the mathematics behind data mining algorithms to better understand intuition behind these algorithms. I was lucky to interview Dr. Ghosh for our blog and here’s a short post –

1. What are the research topics that interest you most now?

I am very interested in analyzing healthcare data in order to model the evolution of a person’s health trajectory, predict the costs
associated with individualized healthcare and for treating a person with personalized medicine. This involves building statistical models
at the individual level using large, heterogeneous data, which is very challenging and tricky.  This is why I find myself spending most of my time on addressing this problem. There is a great potential for analytics in healthcare which makes up almost 1/5th of the economy.

2. Could you talk a little about yourself and what got you into this field?

While doing my PhD in parallel computing, I designed  a “paper” computer with 64,000 processors, and was studying how such a super machine could be used to simulate the human brain. Fortuitously, the first  IEEE Conference on Neural Networks was held during that period (1987), so I decided to attend it and realized that brian-like models can be used for a variety of pattern recognition tasks.  This intrigued me even more and I knew my calling. After completing my PhD in 1988, I joined UT Austin as an Assistant Professor, and gradually switched my research area from parallel computing to pattern recognition and machine learning. Interestingly with the current excitement about deep learning and big data analytics, both strains from my background have become very relevant.

3. What should students in an analytics program focus on?

My advice in general to students everywhere – It’s important to  understand the concepts underlying any model or technique that you use. If you get the basics right, everything else will fall into place.
To analytics students in particular – when solving any modeling problem, think of it also in business terms — are you addressing a relevant problem and is your solution actionable? How does it affect the goals of the enterprise? Make sure you are rooted in the business issue that motivated the problem in the first place. It’s also important to be tools agnostic. Never make the mistake of learning only one set of tools and going after buzz-words without knowing what you are modeling. Tools keep evolving, and new ones are rapidly emerging in the analytics space. So generalizing from your familiar set of tools is a useful skill to learn. And, like I said, and I’ll always say – focus on the fundamentals and you’ll realize how easy it is to continually learn and keep abreast of the latest technology.

4. What are your long term wishes for the program?

I believe low-end analytic tasks will be automated in the near future. I hope for our students to be one step ahead in all aspects – business, technical and soft skills in this quickly evolving world. I hope they continue focusing on fundamentals and the mathematics behind what they are learning in the MSBA program. This is the one thing that will stay with you forever and will take you places.

With Prof. Ghosh’s wise words about focusing on fundamentals and Prof. Barua’s insightful advice on building a keen business acumen [ refer to the post from 19th Sept ’16 ], we sure know what to prioritize now! It was such an honor to be able to attend their courses this semester and learn from them. And I must mention that each one of the courses that we’ve taken have served to broaden our thinking and challenge us in ways we’ve never been challenged before. Thank you to all the Professors who’ve taught us until now! Have a great winter break y’all!

– Akshata Mohan

Data-Driven Solutions at the VA

by chaseslocum

When you hear the phrase “federal government,” innovation and productivity are probably not the first words that come to mind, but that is exactly what you can expect to find at the Data Analytics Division of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Financial Services Center (FSC) located in Austin, Texas. In 2014, the newly appointed Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Robert McDonald, began a push to transform VA through a number of strategies ultimately designed to improve outcomes and experiences for VA employees and Veterans. The transformation process includes organizational, strategic, and data-driven initiatives across the entire enterprise. McDonald, a former CEO of Procter and Gamble, recognized that data-driven, evidence-based decision making can drive an organization to be more efficient and effective. Because of the increasing complexity of the federal government, scrutiny on outcomes for beneficiaries, legislative changes focused on data and analytics, and the recognition of the role that data analytics plays in improving outcomes and enabling the transformation vision; the Data Analytics Division was founded at FSC.

To understand the role of the Data Analytics Division, it is important to understand how the VA FSC operates. FSC handles all the accounting, audit, and payroll among other services at VA. However, unlike most divisions of the federal government, FSC is non-appropriated, meaning its funding is not allotted by Congress. Instead, it receives its funding from other VA organizations in return for the services it provides. In a sense, FSC acts like a consulting firm for other parts of the VA – or even other federal agencies – that work with FSC and require the services provided by FSC. As a part of FSC, the Data Analytics Division develops and deploys data analytics solutions for a variety of offices within the VA and is also postured to provide to other agencies across the federal government.

I had the honor this past week of sitting down and speaking to the Chief of the Data Analytics Division, Dr. Christopher Pate, about the work he does. Much of Dr. Pate’s time is spent speaking with other divisions at the VA about the services his team can provide. Though the nature of the projects varies dramatically, the Data Analytics Division follows a similar development cycle with each project. This starts with understanding the problem they are being asked to solve, the data that are available, and the requirements for an effective solution. Once the problem is fully outlined, the data analytics team begins to develop their advanced models before adapting them into a user-friendly solution that will ultimately be deployed to their customer. You might be surprised to learn, as I was, that a government agency uses Agile Development, but the Data Analytics Division does just that, making their whole process iterative as opposed to linear. (If you are interested in learning more about Agile Development, look up “Spotify Agile Development” on YouTube.)

Because of the constant interest in their solutions from other departments, Dr. Pate has grown his division from just three employees to 21 in a little over a year. These employees have a wide variety of skills that they bring to bear in developing solutions for their customers, but Dr. Pate does not restrict his employees to working within their specific skill set. If a member of his team is interested in working outside of their expertise, Dr. Pate encourages that interest, believing the knowledge gained will not only be beneficial to that employee personally but will also enhance the overall effectiveness of his team.

Encouraging this experimentation is just a small part of the environment Dr. Pate is developing to make his team as successful as possible. He also encourages his employees to be engaged in continuous learning by attending analytics meetups, using training resources, and being engaged in industry organizations like the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) to stay up-to-date on industry practices. In addition, the Data Analytics Division uses a range of leading visualization and analytic technologies, such as TIBCO Spotfire, to provide the full spectrum of business intelligence and analytics support to VA customers.

One of the most important partnerships Dr. Pate has recently initiated is with McCombs. A former dean, Dr. Pate recognizes the value in industry partnerships with academia and reached out to the MSBA program to begin developing this mutually beneficial relationship. As a first step in this partnership, Dr. Pate became a member of the MSBA Advisory Council. Being a member of this council allows Dr. Pate to stay aware of what is going on within the program and learn about its students in addition to helping the program by ensuring it is teaching its students the skills they need to be valuable within the industry. The Data Analytics Division is also providing a capstone project for the program. This capstone will give students the opportunity to work with actual companies and gain hands-on experience while providing a service to those companies.

The work with the MSBA program is just the first step in what will become a permanent relationship that benefits McCombs as well as the VA. The dean of McCombs, Jay Hartzell, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to that effect. Down the road, Dr. Pate plans on partnering with McCombs faculty in their research, potentially providing internships to undergraduate students, and developing an innovative and data sharing environment that allows students and faculty in McCombs to develop their own abilities while providing solutions to VA.

This partnership, of course, is about more than the benefit of two organizations. At the end of the day, the Data Analytics Division is a part of the Department of Veteran Affairs. As they develop solutions that improve the efficiency of VA, it means more time and money can be spent directly caring for our Veterans. Dr. Pate, who was a member of the Army for 25 years and comes from a large family of Veterans, is well aware of the defining mission of VA. He hopes his team can develop products that directly benefit Veterans and potentially provide better access to resources. Undoubtedly, whether performed by a member of the Data Analytics Division or a student at McCombs, there is an intrinsic worth in the work done for VA.

-Chase Slocum

Women’s Roundtable Breakfast

by emilygraves

This past Friday, female students from the MS Marketing, MS Finance, and MS Business Analytics programs sat down for a roundtable breakfast with successful women from typically male-dominated fields. The effort to connect young women with industry leaders was initiated by Linda Vytlacil, Walmart VP in Data and Analytics, when the MSBA program kicked off four years ago in order to provide mentoring to young women beginning their careers. Other companies represented included IBM, JDA, W20, AT&T, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Bank of Texas, EY, and Facebook. While much was to be taken away from this roundtable, we’ve captured a few of the key pieces of advice.

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Defining Your Definition of Success

Whether you’re kicking off your career or re-evaluating your goals, you need to define what success means to you. At this point in time, success could be climbing the career ladder. Or it could be focusing on family and taking a job that allows you to spend more time at home. There is no wrong answer, but you must look within yourself to determine what that answer is.

 

Find a Mentor or Support Group

When starting your career, it is important to surround yourself with people who will have your best interests in mind. Whether it’s family or colleagues, you need a group of people you can turn to. In addition to building a strong support group, it is also important to find mentors throughout your career. Lisa Perry from JDA emphasized the importance of not only finding a mentor but also finding one who is your opposite in order to push you and offer different perspectives.

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How to be Assertive and Have Confidence in the Workplace

One topic that came up at multiple tables was how to overcome the negative stereotype of a strong woman and be more assertive. The women seemed almost unanimous in that the best way to overcome to stereotype is to ignore it altogether. Perception is reality, and the more you buy into or believe a particular thing, the more it becomes true. If we, as women, believe that there is a gender gap, the stereotype will continue to build. It is important to let the strength of your work define you as opposed to your gender.

-Emily Graves

On “likes”, social media and beyond – exploring analytics with Professor Anitesh Barua.

by akshatamohan

This is the first part of a faculty interview series where I interview a faculty member of the MSBA program to learn more about their research, teaching and more importantly for all of us, steal some information about how to be a better data driven story teller.

 

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1. Is it naive to say that analytics was only just discovered as quite a few believe it to be?

Discovering insights from data goes back a very long time, but it was primarily happening in academia. But there is a new realization in most businesses today that we can compete better with data and evidence based decision making. Today’s Information Technologies allow for massive quantities of diverse data as well as tools to analyze them. Text mining in the 1970s
was restricted to research and universities. But these days, due to social media and other user generated content, there is an explosion of unstructured data which are being exploited by many companies to gain deep insights into many aspects of their business.

2. How did you start out doing what you are doing now?

When I was a Ph.D student at CMU, there was a software ( quite a sophisticated one at the time ) called TETRAD, along with its theoretical underpinnings. It actually went beyond correlations, and focused on discovering causal relationships. I was fortunate to work with it in my research to demonstrate that you can discover new relationships in data. Not unexpectedly, there wer
e a lot of academics who were highly critical of the approach of data driven discovery, and dismissed it as “blind empiricism.”

3. Could you talk a little more about your research?

One that I am excited about is about the “financial value of a like”. One huge advantage of social media is that we can run real world experiments. We convinced a retailer to add like buttons on its page to increase sales. We designed an experiment where a large number of students in the treatment group were randomly instructed to like a product, and where we observed how many of their Facebook friends actually bought the product. We quantified effects of the like in two ways – those in the close contact circle of the person who liked the product (effect was stronger ) and the count of likes in popularity (this had a weaker effect ). There was a dramatic increase in sales in the treatment group, stemming primarily from “in network” effects.

Another topic of my current research involves a digital advertising supply chain. Aided by a massive data set with billions of digital impressions, we could study the decisions made by various players in this supply chain (e.g., ad agencies, publishers, brokers, etc.), and show that by accounting for cross-channel synergies, the supply chain can increase its profit by 356%. This wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have access to such a massive quantity of data – you can theorize all you want to, but without data there is no way to validate your ideas!

4. What advice do you have for students who are starting out in this field?

Well, you guys (our MSBA students) have an incredible technical and quantitative foundation, and are being exposed to the most advanced theories and practices in these areas. I would advise you to pay close attention to the business details. All that you are learning now would be worth even more if you develop the business acumen to solve the problem in a real-world context. This is a skill that takes time to develop, but is a critical one. Read a lot of business issues in online magazines, blogs and social media in general. Be comfortable in understanding business strategy and processes. The combination of technical, quant and business skills is quite rare, and hence highly valued in the industry.

 

 

– Akshata Mohan

Day in the Life: Summer Semester

by chaseslocum

It’s the beginning of July, and the University of Texas at Austin looks desolate and empty. The heat index is 110°, and it will be a month and half before the Forty Acres is bustling with its full 50,000 students. Inside the chilly halls of the McCombs School of Business, 53 MSBA students are starting their first semester. Graduation may be ten months away, but these students are only concerned with the rigorous month of classes they are about to begin.

Over the next five weeks, the students will be attending only two classes. Each will meet Monday through Thursday for two hours a day. By the second week of August, these students, who come from diverse backgrounds, will know more than a semester’s worth of material. They will be able to build a variety of models, know how to perform various supervised and unsupervised learning tasks, and understand how to complete simple text analytics. They will have run Monte Carlo simulations and permutation tests. They will have learned to do most of these exercises in R and Python, and they will understand the internal mechanisms of these algorithms to boot. Even if they do not realize it, after a month of just two classes, most of these students will be able to have entire conversations that would have been utterly unintelligible to them before.

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And that’s not all.

Most Fridays will be spent working on recruiting prep and career coaching. McCombs has incredible career resources and a team of corporate relation professionals and career coaches will be supporting the students as they learn how to network, write their résumé, perform informational interviews, and get the most out of their job search, which is already beginning. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to learn about the diverse set of recruiters, from Walmart to Deloitte to USAA to Southwest and beyond, that actively support and recruit from the MSBA program at UT.

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Somewhere between all of these activities, students will still find time to hang out outside of class. Austin has a lot to offer, and the MSBA students will make the most of it. They will attend local analytics meetups, try out local restaurants (from Trudy’s Tex-Mex to Kome sushi), see a movie at the AlamoDrafthouse, check out the live music scene, and see what all the buzz is about downtown. Whether it is from the work or the fun, many of these students will become fast friends in the short summer semester, another lasting benefit of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program at UT Austin.

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-Chase Slocum

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Universe’s Best Internship

by valerieroth

junoThis summer was by far the best of my life. Not only did I start the MSBA program, which so far has been a blast, but I also got to live out my dream of working at NASA. I was an intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I worked on an open source scientific processing platform called SciSpark.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, is the top center for robotic exploration of the solar system. It began in 1936, when a group of graduate students from the California Institute of Technology decided to put their personal reputations – and safety – on the line to perform experiments with rockets, which were seen as mere science fiction instead of a serious academic subject at the time. JPL has now sent spacecraft to every planet in our solar system, and informs much of what we understand about our universe today.

Coming from a computer science background, I was put on a team developing open source software that will help scientists model Earth’s climate 10-100x faster than the previous leading platform that could be used for this (Apache Hadoop). This faster speed makes interactive data exploration possible, allowing scientists to make crucial discoveries in a fraction of the time. In this process, I worked with the top people in their fields from meteorologists to computer scientists to assess how to best serve the people who could benefit from this software.

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While I cannot count the number of things I loved about this internship, there are a few highlights that I want to experience again as I decide what to do after I graduate from this program. First, I want to end up on a team with excellent mentors who want me to continue learning as much as I can. At JPL, my questions were always met with kindness and helpful explanations. One of my mentors even helped me to study some research papers in her field that I was new to and interested in. While I love being a student and cringe at the prospect of giving up the schedule of lectures and tech talks that fill my weeks, if I can find a place like this in the future it won’t be so difficult to leave college.

Second, I took a step towards being the change I wanted to see in the world with this internship. Giving people better tools to address climate change is something I imagine I will look back on when I am 80 years old and still be proud of myself for. While every job has its challenges, it is much easier to power through them when you know there will be a huge impact for others when you do.

Many of us in the MSBA program still have much to discover about what we want to spend our 40+ hours a week doing after graduation. My takeaway from this internship going forward is that when you are passionate about what you do and work with great people, those hours don’t seem like work at all. While all of our paths will be different and our criteria for choosing a job will vary dramatically, I hope that we all find careers that make us excited to go to work every morning.

 

– Valerie Roth

Why Should YOU Join Our Program?

by dhwaniparekh

Wondering why you should join? We surveyed our program’s students and asked them about the top reasons they chose the University of Texas’s Masters of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program over other similar programs. Here’s how they responded.

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Located in the heart of Austin, Texas and housed within the prestigious McCombs School of Business and its Information, Risk, and Operations Management department, the 10-month long MSBA program provides a unique opportunity to acquire valuable skills in both technical and business aspects of analytics. This well-balanced mix of coursework was a major driving factor for this year’s students to choose the University of Texas

With Austin’s thriving tech start-up scene as a backdrop, students are able to attend meet-up and training sessions outside of school to network with some of the best and brightest in the industry. Additionally, the MSBA curriculum includes a semester-long capstone project that provides students with the opportunity to apply their learnings to real-world problems and gain valuable experience working alongside the program’s corporate partners.

A majority of students stated that the impressive placement statistics of prior cohorts (see placement statistics here) and the presence of a dedicated career services team influenced their decision to join the MSBA program.

Finally, this year’s cohort unanimously agreed that the collaborative nature of the program, supplemented by the strong diversity of the student body (see class profile here), is a major contributor to the group’s success.

Balanced coursework at a world- class business school, a dedicated career services team, and the opportunity to work on complex, real-world business problems in the form of capstone project were the most important factors for the class of 2016 in their graduate school decision. We’d love for you to join us and have your own MSBA experience.

–Dhwani Parekh

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