Deakin University and IBM have announced the launch of the new Centre for Excellence in Business Analytics.

 

The new centre is part of a collaborative effort to expand and strengthen student’s skills in understanding big data sets and analytics to meet the growing demand for highly skilled analytics workers.

 

The new centre is based at Deakin’s Melbourne campus and will serve to deliver a suite of postgraduate programs in Business Analytics, as well as showcasing IBM’s business analytics solutions.

 

Head of the School of Information Systems, Professor Dineli Mather, said Deakin’s School of Information Systems was well positioned to expand its academic offerings into Business Analytics as it has combined expertise in Information Systems and analytics and was able to offer students the opportunity to develop in a broad range of disciplines already offered by the Business Faculty.

 

“We anticipate students on the Master of Commerce and MBA will be able to specialise in Business Analytics and students from all degrees across Deakin will have the opportunity to take elective offerings in Business Analytics. Our collaboration with IBM is a positive step forward in terms of fostering these skills with the next generation of students,” she said.

 

Deakin joins Yale School of Management, the Telfer Business School in Ottawa and Nanyang Polytechnic University in Singapore as the fourth university globally to establish an academic alliance to establish a Centre of Excellence globally.