Capstone Project

Catalog description

All students will complete a rigorous, semester-long Capstone project that will rely on and integrate the knowledge gained over the duration of the program. The Capstone experience will give students an immersive experience where they will take charge of a project and see it through from start to end. During the individual courses, students learn everything in a carefully scaffolded and structured environment. In contrast, in this course, students will face a more unstructured, realistic scenario, similar to those that data analysts encounter in their work. This unstructured environment will help students integrate their structured learnings and mature in the process. Their learning is also enhanced because of the sense of ownership that they feel in doing projects of their choice. Students will be expected to come up with their own projects (with some guidance) and then to execute the entire process. Project teams will identify a problem of significance and use the techniques learned in the MS in Business Analytics to suggest solutions. Students will go through several iterations of work within each phase, based on discussions with the instructors.