Detailed Program Facts

Application Fee

  Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE

Tuition Fee

 CAD 13,550 per year

*Note: The fee is approximate and is subject to change

Living Cost in University of Bolton

  CAD 9,207 per year

*Note: The fee is approximate and is subject to change

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

Check program website for more information about funding options.

English Test Requirements

• IELTS
  • Minimum Overall Score - 6.0 - 5.5 - With No Band Less Than
• TOEFL
  • Minimum Overall Score - 80.0  Minimum Listening - 17.0  Minimum Reading - 18.0  Minimum Writing - 17.0  Minimum Speaking - 20.0  
• PTE
  • Minimum Overall Score - 50.0  

• Minimum Level of Education Required: To be accepted for this program, students must have a Bachelor's degree.

• Minimum CGPA Required: 65.00 %

Additional Information

Careers opportunities

Companies the world over are harnessing the power of big data to understand business performance, identify market trends and gain competitive advantage. The demand for workers with the skills to transform raw data into actionable insights to improve business decisions is growing and highly-skilled, competent, creative professionals are needed by organisations across the economic spectrum.

Our MSc in Business Analytics and Technologies offers a postgraduate route into this in-demand and varied career. It's an ideal bridge into business data analysis and technologies, whatever your undergraduate degree specialisation. Additionally, it's an excellent option if you've worked in a relevant field, gaining degree-level knowledge through experience and self-study rather than formal education.

As a graduate of this master's degree, you'll possess a solid theoretical and practical understanding of business analytics and technologies. You'll be able to demonstrate essential interpersonal and people skills, such as collaboration and teamwork, coupled with commercial awareness and business-relevant knowledge. You'll also possess high-level academic skills in research, critical thinking and curiosity. Moreover, you'll have the lifelong learning, problem-solving and decision-making skills needed to adapt to new challenges throughout your career.

What can I do with this qualification?

As a graduate of this industry?focused, hands-on MSc, you'll possess strong skills in business analytics and technologies. Depending on your prior qualifications and experience, a wide range of career opportunities will be open to you, as will the option of further study towards a PhD should you choose a career in research or academia.

Business analysts are in high demand, and business analytics roles are diverse. Big data has intensified the need for business analysts who can create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations to communicate insight to managers and stakeholders. You may find employment looking for trends and patterns that help companies make business decisions or predict demand for goods or services. There are also many roles in marketing and marketing research; for instance, in analysing trends in consumer feedback, determining the effectiveness of customer reward and loyalty schemes, and search engine optimisation for websites. Moreover, small and medium-sized enterprises need consultants to help them make data-driven business decisions on an ad hoc basis, so you could consider starting your own business to support their needs.

Alternative career options

Depending on your prior qualifications and experience, after graduation, you can also use this master's degree as a stepping-stone into a range of other careers. Some of these roles may require relevant experience and/or postgraduate study. Some possibilities include:

• Leadership and management
• Use of technology in enhancing business and industrial processes
• Solutions driven business and industrial investigation
• Marketing and public relations
• Social media management
• Information systems management
• Cyber security
• Social enterprise
• Policy management
• Education and teaching
• Advising and consultancy

Scholarships

There are various options through which a student can get a post study work visa in the UK. 
Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa for the graduates with a genuine and credible business idea. 
Tier 2 (General) is the leading immigration visa to work in the UK.
Tier 4 Doctorate Extension Scheme is for students who have completed their Ph.D. and is valid for 12 months for them to work, look for work or set up a business. 
Tier 5 Youth Mobility is for individuals of certain countries like Australia, Canada, Japan, Monaco, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and New Zealand aged between 18 -30 who wish to move to the UK. 
Tier 5 GAE is for individuals who want to come to the UK for work experience, training, research or a fellowship. 
UK Ancestry is for individuals who are a citizen of a commonwealth and plan to work in the UK and have a grandparent who was born in the UK.