Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management

Business Analytics with Specialisation in Finance (FACE-TO-FACE)

About the Programme

An MSc. Business Analytics with Specialisation in Finance will give you the cutting-edge tools, techniques and model-building skills to transform financial data into insights needed to drive competitive advantage at the organisational level. Learn how to generate data and research driven insights to enhance the quality and impact of business decisions – with special emphasis on the issues/decisions related to finance and investment. This programme can position you for leadership, as the global demand for data analysis and interpretation continues to grow.

What Will I Study?

The different types of data sources
How to store, retrieve and report data
How to prepare, visualise and make sense of data to support business decision-making for competitive advantage
How to use mathematics and appropriate technology to analyse problems
How to analyse risk and make financial decisions for corporate investments
Important skills for optimising and building investment portfolios, diversifying portfolios and managing risks

Facilities and Resources

Graduate Studies Lab – This new Graduate Studies Lab equips students with hands-on experience in using data analytic and research tools and technologies to improve the practical experience and the real-world feel of their programme curriculum. Several Bloomberg terminals are available in the lab.

Research

Our Faculty for this programme includes three researchers who are experts in business analytics and/or finance.

Professor C. Justin Robinson has published extensively on banking, finance and investments in the emerging market context. His research included investigations on stock price behaviour, dividend policy and monetary integration in the Caribbean. Professor Robinson also serves on the Board of Directors for the Central Bank of Barbados.

Professor Sally Brailsford is Professor of Management Science within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton, UK. Professor Sally Brailsford is also currently one of the leading individuals in her field. Professor Brailsford’s research has been chiefly in the area of health care modelling with the aim to evaluate treatments and screening programmes, to allocate resources, to redesign processes and to improve systems.

Dr. Terry Harris is an Assistant Professor in Accounting at Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK. Some of his research interests include financial econometrics, financial engineering, machine learning and big data analytics. Dr. Harris has engaged in extensive theoretical and applied research, publications, and scholarly and professional activities. In particular, he has published in Association of Business Schools (ABS) rated journals.

Career Opportunities

Career opportunities include:

Business Analyst
Investment Analyst
Stockbroker
Trader and/or Fund Manager
Data Analyst
Quantitative Modeler
Finance Manager
Investment Specialist
Big Data Specialist
Digital Transformation Specialist

Apply now if these career paths interest you!

We accept applications from November 1 to June 30. However, expressions of interest are accepted throughout the year.

Why Study in Barbados

The best business schools anticipate the needs of global firms and lead the market through programme innovation. As industries grasp the power of information to deliver competitive advantage, the demand for big data expertise continues to grow. To ensure that our MSc. Business Analytics graduates are ready for the global marketplace, the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management revamped its MSc. Business Analytics programme suite in 2021, though less than five years old. We have introduced concentrations in Aviation Management, Logistics Analytics, Tourism and Hospitality Analytics, Risk Management and Financial Engineering alongside the concentrations in Finance and Marketing.

Our students are also getting opportunities to utilise their skills prior to graduation. The research component of the 2021 National Seek and Save Programme was a collaborative effort between our undergraduates, who went from door-to-door collecting key household information and our Business Analytics graduate students who mined the data to uncover lifesaving information. Every MSc. Business Analytics student is required to undertake a comprehensive project involving data preparation, mining and visualisation for a Caribbean business looking to up its know-how.

Be a part of the data-driven business revolution and save money by completing your graduate degree in 18 months rather than 24 – 30 months.

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At a Glance

Degree Level: Postgraduate
Qualification: MSc
Duration: Full-Time: 18 months; Part-Time: 24 months (maximum of 4 years)

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Programme Details

Some of the courses you will cover are:

Introduction to Business Analytics
Data Preparation and Visualisation
Data Mining – Supervised & Unsupervised Learning
Corporate Finance
Portfolio Management & Wealth Planning
Derivatives

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Our tuition is internationally competitive and we offer scholarships, financial aid and payment plans to make university education available to our students. Please click here for details on financing options.

Programme Fees (as at August 2023) = BDS $ 35,000.
University Registration Fees (as at August 2023) = BDS $ 540 per semester:
University fees comprise of Guild and Amenities Fees. They are not charged in the summer semester.
Please note that fees may be adjusted for academic year 2023-2024.

For Degreed Applicants

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a university or college acceptable to the University of the West Indies, with at least Second Class Honours.

Students are expected to have a good grounding in a quantitative subject such as mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science, management science, economics, business or a quantitative social science. Students who are adjudged to have an insufficient background in a quantitative discipline may still qualify for entry into the programme but will be required to pursue a preliminary year of study before the MSc. Business Analytics courses are pursued.

Students with 'Pass' degrees will be considered on the following conditions:
(a) they are currently working in a Statistics or Data analytics related field, and;
(b) they are successful at an interview conducted by the entrance committee within the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management.

Two letters of recommendation must be provided by all degreed applicants.

For Non-Degreed Applicants

The Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management is considering opening its doors to a number of individuals working in the private sector without degrees, who have a desire to obtain advanced training in Business Analytics. It is expected that the number of students entering the programme through this route would be highly restricted and should represent no more than 25 percent of the cohort in any given year. Students entering through this route will be required to undertake a preliminary year of study. The entry criteria for these students would therefore be:

Technical certificates or diplomas that can be assessed by the University of the West Indies.
Five years’ experience in the Statistics or Data Analytics related field.
They are successful at an interview conducted by a selected panel determined by the Campus Committee on Graduate Studies and the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management.
Two letters of recommendation.