Hospitals, transport companies, banks and governments all make decisions where a better model saves time, money or lives. This programme equips you with the mathematics, statistics, programming and AI tools to build those models, and the communication skills to see them adopted.
The study programme
The programme is taught entirely in English and starts in September.
- Data Analysis / Mathematics (50%): statistics and optimisation
- Computer Science (35%): programming, algorithms and artificial intelligence
- Business (15%): organisation, finance and logistics
Theory and projects
Every semester you work in a small project group on a practical case, from simplified datasets in the first year to cases from organisations later on, applying theory directly to a working solution and final product. You develop your communication and consulting skills, present your work regularly, and visit companies such as IBM and Deloitte.
Recent business cases include:
- Healthcare: an allocation policy for stroke patients at Amsterdam UMC.
- Clean air: predicting NO2 levels from limited data, for Caeli.
- Public transport: maintenance strategies for Dutch Railways (NS) trains.
- City mobility: the impact of the North/South metro line on how people move around Amsterdam, for the Municipality of Amsterdam.
- Retail: smart planning of inventories.
View the comparison chart to see how Business Analytics compares with Econometrics and Operations Research, and with Econometrics and Data Science.
