Bachelor
Launch a career in the booming world of business insights with Deakin's Bachelor of Business Analytics. With hands-on experience in real-world projects, you will become a confident business analytics translator capable of unlocking innovative solutions for businesses using data insights.
In Victoria's longest running specialised business analytics course, you will learn practical commercial skills to interpret data and information, so you can solve complex organisational problems and create opportunities for businesses. Work on real-world projects, practise with the analysis tools used by professionals and get industry experience translating insights into impact. Better still, the strategic input of our industry partners, including IBM, Deloitte and PwC, feeds into course content. This ensures you graduate with a degree that is built for the needs of business, today and into the future.
Ready to lead critical business decisions with data-driven insights?
Gain an understanding of how organisations structure information architecture and how technology can enhance processes, products, and services by practising with state-of-the-art data management and analytics tools.
Study Deakin's Bachelor of Business Analytics and develop critical thinking and analysis skills through topics like:
- artificial intelligence
- business intelligence and data warehousing
- data analysis
- information architecture
- information security and governance
- planning commercial systems
- processes and workflows
- professional and business ethics
- project management.
Learn to find meaning and extract value from data by applying creativity to real-world problems. We'll equip you with data analysis skills and teach you how to apply problem-solving and creative thinking to the needs of business, science and society.
Grow your professional network before you graduate and gain valuable experience with work-integrated learning opportunities, including community-based volunteering, team projects and business internships. Plus, our world-class business analytics program is taught by teachers who are active professionals, giving you access to current knowledge in the field.
As a business data analyst , you will play a key role ensuring organisations achieve real impact from analytics initiatives. By 2026, there is projected to be a 12.9% increase in business and systems analysts jobs in Australia.*
As a Deakin graduate, you will have the business mindset and practical experience needed to meet this demand. You'll be set up for success in a variety of roles including:
*Employment projections, Labour Market Insights, National Skills Commission, Australian Government
To complete the Bachelor of Business Analytics, students must attain a total of 24 credit points plus completion of the compulsory 0-credit point module, DAI001 Academic Integrity Module. Most units (think of units as 'subjects') are equal to 1 credit point. Most students choose to study 4 units per trimester, and usually undertake 2 trimesters each year.
To complete the course you must include:-
The University aims to provide students with as much credit as possible for approved prior study or informal learning which exceeds the normal entrance requirements for the course and is within the constraints of the course regulations. Students are required to complete a minimum of one-third of the course at Deakin University, or four credit points, whichever is the greater. In the case of certificates, including graduate certificates, a minimum of two credit points within the course must be completed at Deakin.
You can also refer to the Recognition of prior learning System which outlines the credit that may be granted towards a Deakin University degree and how to apply for credit.