Business Analytics & Information Systems Program (BAIS)

Major Requirements

Business Administration & Information Systems Major Requirements

The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Business Analytics & Information Systems (B.S.B.A in BAIS) educates and develops future data analysts. 

All students who choose the B.S.B.A. in BAIS must declare a concentration. A student who majors in the B.S.B.A. in BAIS may not double major in the other concentration. They may, however, minor in one BAIS minor (BA, OSM, or IS) at most. A student may not minor in the same area as their concentration.

University Core Curriculum

See Undergraduate Core Curriculum

Business Core Requirements

A 2.00 grade point average must be attained in the business core. At least half of the 42 total credit hours must be taken at Xavier.

  • ACCT 200 - Introductory Financial Acct
  • ACCT 201 - Introductory Managerial Acct
  • BAIS 210 - Quantitative Methods
  • BAIS 220 - Mgmnt of Info Tech
  • BAIS 211 - Intro to Business Analytics
  • BLAW 300 - Legal Environment
  • ECON 200 - Microeconomic Principles
  • ECON 201 - Macroeconomic Principles
  • ECON 300 - Int’l Trade & Bus Environment
  • FINC 300 - Business Finance
  • MGMT 200 - Organizational Management
  • MGMT 301 - Managerial Communications
  • MGMT 201 - Business & Professional Comm
  • MGMT 495 - Management Capstone
  • MKTG 300 - Principles of Marketing

Major Requirements

21 credit hours, as follows

Required BAIS Courses

  • BAIS 329 - Data Mining
  • BAIS 358 - Data Modeling and Management
  • BAIS 360 - Intro to Application Development
  • BAIS 365 - Business Analytics
  • BAIS 462 - Programming for Analytics

Business Analytics Electives (Choose 2)

  • BAIS 311 - Sabermetrics
  • BAIS 389 - Data Visualization
  • BAIS 498 - Tutorial
  • BAIS 367- Intro to Discrete Event Simulation
  • MKGT 315 or MKGT 370 - Principles of Category Management / Consumer Behavior
  • MKGT 302 - Market Research
  • FlNC 385 / ACCT 385 - Financial Modelling 
  • FINC 365 - Investments
  • ACCT 304 - Acct Info Systems
  • ECON 306 - Macroeconomics
  • ECON 307 - Empirical Analysis in Economics

 

Required BAIS Courses

  • BAIS 365 - Business Analytics
  • BAIS 330 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation
  • BAIS 333 / MGMT 333 - Global Supply Chain Management
  • BAIS 336 / MGMT 336 - Strategic Sourcing
  • BAIS 463 - OSM Systems

Operations and Supply Chain Management Electives (Choose 2)

  • MKTG 340 / BAIS 340 - Marketing & the Supply Chain
  • MKTG 310 / BAIS 310 - Business to Business Marketing
  • BAIS 389 - Data Visualization
  • BAIS 498 - Tutorial
  • BAIS 367 - Intro to Discrete Event Simulation
  • BAIS 360 - Intro to App Development
  • BAIS 462 - Programming for Analytics 
  • ACCT 304 - Acct Info Systems
  • ACCT 425 - Cost Accounting
  • MGMT 322 - Managing for Sustainability