Bachelor’s Degree in Business Intelligence

The Business Intelligence Degree (4-year degree, 240 ECTS) is the first official undergraduate degree in Spain that has been designed in collaboration with business firms, as Telefónica, a leading company in the technology world, and managers of many other firms, have helped in the choice of courses and the contents.

Students enrolled in the degree received education on three areas of high demand in the current labor market: economics and business studies; data analysis; and programming.

GOALS

• To form students in one of the leading professions of the future: the management of firms by analysis of data
• To develop the ability to solve problems in a creative and innovative way
• To understand how technology works
• To understand the basic concepts and techniques regarding Big Data

WHY STUDYING AT CEU

• The courses taught, and contents of them, have been prepared in collaboration with managers from different business, national and international.
• Teaching is based on projects with practical applications and study of real cases situations.
• The curriculum includes training focused on the skills most in demand in the business world, such as innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity
• The compulsory internship will give you the opportunity of leaning first-hand with leading companies (more than 8,000 internship agreements).

WHY A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEGREE

Every day, more than 3 billion searches are performed in Google; more than 4 billion videos are viewed in YouTube; more than 100 billion emails are sent; or more than 300 million tweets are written. All these actions leave a data trail, and in in the new digital era, data is the new oil.

It is expected that, in the next five years, the number of specialists working on data analysis on big firms will increase by more than 240%. Understanding and analyzing data has become the profession of the future.

That is why companies are increasingly demanding professional profiles with excellent analytical skills, innovative attitude, and familiar with data analysis techniques.

The Business Intelligence Degree is an innovative degree, focused on data techniques for business and other tools of great importance in today’s business environment, in particular for companies operating from Internet.

This degree can be combined with the Bilingual Program in Boston University, and/or the Excellency Program of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

CANDIDATES PROFILE

Suggested profile for a student seeking admission to the degree:

• Attitude to integrate, creatively, knowledge from different disciplines.
• Awareness of the current social environment, and ability to ask questions regarding the motivation of human behavior.
• Inclination towards the quantitative aspects of problems.
• Interest on understanding the way technology s changing society and economy.