What is the difference between Cal Poly’s Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) and the
Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE) programs?
| MSBA | MSQE | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Application Oriented Analytics | Identification of causal relations. Analysis of economic incentives. |
| Prerequisites | Required: One college level course in calculus and two college level courses in statistics Recommended: One linear algebra course | Required: Two college level courses in calculus and two college level courses in statistics (the second statistics course can be an econometrics course). Recommended: One econometrics course and one microeconomics course. |
| Job Placement | Firms interested in hiring business analytics professionals | Firms and governmental organizations interested in hiring quantitative applied economists. |
| Interdisciplinary | Faculty from Information Systems, Statistics, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Management, Economics, and Finance | Faculty from Economics and Statistics. Guest Economics Speakers from the Tech Industry, Finance, Government and Academia. |
| Culminating Experience | Collaborative Industry Projects | Comprehensive exam |
| Statistical and Computing Tools | Data Visualization, Statistics, Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, SQL, Computing and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Marketing Analytics, People Analytics, Prescriptive Analytics, R and Python | Causal Inference, Experimentation, Economic Theory, Structural Econometrics, Double/Debiased Machine Learning, Simulation and Optimization, SQL, Stata, R and Python. |
