Top 10 Analytics Courses in India 2015
Top 10 Analytics Courses in India 2015
Top 10 Analytics Courses in India 2015
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TOP 10
ANALYTICS COURSES
IN INDIA
PRESENTED BY
Bhasker Gupta
Founder, Analytics India Magazine
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CAPSTONE PROJECT
All candidates would be pursuing an industry project in the field of Business Analytics. The
project is mentored and jointly evaluated by faculty from Great Lakes and Industry leaders. The
project is presented to the faculty board as part of the requirement for successful completion
of the program.
BATCH PROFILE
Designed for working professionals, the PGPBA program received wonderful response from
candidates. The batch has an average experience of over 9 years per candidate.
With a highest experience of over 25 years and least experience of 2 years, the batch is a
perfect picture of diversity across CXOs and industry leaders, mid-career executives and
young professionals. Provided below is a snapshot of the diversity in the batch in terms of
work experience:
The class is composed of professionals across various roles and industries. The class
consists of candidates in leadership positions such as CEO, Vice Presidents, Business Unit
Heads and Associate Directors. In addition to these leadership roles, the class is composed of
candidates across Project Management, Quality assurance, Team Leads, Business Advisor,
Manager, Engineering and Business Analyst roles.
CAREER SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
Great lakes PGPBA program is designed for executive who want to skill themselves for
business roles in analytics. We do not offer any placement process but there are career
support activities that are provided within the program.
The focus of these career support activities is to help candidates prepare better and provide
candidates with access to opportunity. Career support activities are broken into two parts:1) Preparation: There are various workshops that are organized in terms of resume preparation
and interview preparation that helps candidates strengthen their candidatures. Also, the guest
lectures by industry professionals help candidates orient themselves and understand better in
term of what is required by the industry.
2) Access to opportunities: PGPBA being a widely recognized program by the industry, there
are several instances wherein companies approach us with opportunities and these JDs are
shared with the batch and alumni. The candidates who are interested are free to apply and
the recruiting companies take the process further. In past, we have had opportunities from
Genpact, Valuelabs, Accenture, Mu Sigma, Capgemini, Amazon, Cipla and many others that
were shared with the PGPBA candidates and alumni.
There are several examples of candidates and alumni who have made most of these
opportunities and transitioned their career. Some of these examples includes Genpact, Fractal
Analytics, American express, Valuelabs, TVS, L&T Analytic, Smartcube and others.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
This program is designed to transform candidates to business ready analytics professionals
through hands on experiential learning on relevant tools. This is achieved through an
experiential learning format wherein participants practice exercises and assignments on
software package such as SAS, R and Tableau.
CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME
ON BUSINESS ANALYTICS
AND INTELLIGENCE
IIM BANGALORE
The course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge of handling data and Business Analytics
tools that can be used for problem solving and decision making using real case studies.
The 1 year long duration program consists of eight modules and a project. The duration of
each module is usually 5-6 days except for module 2 (2 days) and module 7 (2 days).
Students are expected to do a group project as part of this course based on a real-life problem/
data. The project pre-work should start around October and should roll out by January. It will
be supervised by an IIMB faculty member and must be wrapped by May with a project report
submission. The Institute encourages students to publish cases studies based on their course
project.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
Understand the emergence of business analytics as a competitive strategy.
Understand the foundations of data science; the role of descriptive, predictive and
prescriptive analytics in firms.
Analyze data using statistical and data mining techniques and understand relationships
between the underlying business processes of an organization.
Learn data visualization and storytelling through data.
Learn decision-making tools / Operations Research techniques.
Use advanced analytical tools to analyse complex problems under uncertainty.
Manage business processes using analytical and management tools.
Use analytics in customer requirement analysis, general management, marketing, finance,
operations and supply chain management.
Learn analytics through case studies published by IIMB at the Harvard Business Publishing
Understand sources of Big Data and the technologies and algorithms for analyzing big
data for inferences. Ability to analyze unstructured data such as social media data and
machine generated data.
PEDAGOGY
i. Case-based teaching will be used for all the modules using case studies from IIMB, Harvard
Business School (HBS), Darden, Ivey, and Kellogg. Significant proportions of the cases used in the
course are published by IIMB faculty at the Harvard Business Publishing. A few of them are actually
published by the students from the previous batches based on their project work.
ii. Each Module ends with a real life project that requires students to work in teams to solve a case
using relevant data and learnings from the Module. The findings are presented by the chosen teams
to the Professor and the entire class giving scope for brainstorming and healthy discussions that
leads the way to the right approach to solve a given problem.
iii. In addition to this lots of exercises are shared during the sessions prompting students to try the
problem hands-on which is discussed on the following day first thing in the morning. This motivates
students to re-read the learnings of the previous day and go through the given problem set to
MISB BOCCONI
One of Europes top b-schools, SDA Bocconi, and Jigsaw Academy, launched a
10-month Executive Program in Business Analytics (EPBA) for professionals earlier
this year. This was a unique combination of management principles backed by
analytics training.
SDA Bocconi is currently ranked at #7 in the world for its MBA program, and Jigsaw
Academy is ranked #1 in India for its analytics training courses. The program will
be conducted at Bocconi Universitys campus in Mumbai. Upon completion, the
participants will receive certification in business analytics from the SDA Bocconi
School of Management.
The course provides a deep understanding on all relevant disciplines of business
analytics, including statistics, machine learning, time series, R, SAS, Big Data (Pig,
Hive, Sqoop, Flume, HBASE, SPARK and Oozie), visualization, text mining, web
analytics and digital marketing. In addition, it also focuses on its application across
sectors and functions including Telecom, Banks, Retail, Healthcare and Insurance as
well as areas such as Finance, Marketing, and Operations.
The programme involves more than 280 hours of training, including 120 hours of
in-person training held over six three-day modules at the MISB Bocconi campus in
Mumbai. In the interim, Jigsaw Academy also conducts 24 live online classes for
a total of 60 hours, which participants can attend from any convenient location. In
addition to the live online and in-person classes, participants will also have access to
over 100 hours of pre-recorded video lectures on data science and big data analytics
for 12 months.
The faculty is a mix of professors from SDA Bocconi, IIM professors, industry experts
and Jigsaw faculty. In addition, their current batch has already interacted with
experts including the head of analytics in Tata Motors (global auto company) lead
consultant in Mobelium (telecom analytics company), senior director at Axtria (a data
analytics company), head of sales in Tableau (data visualization company) and senior
management at Tech Mahindra and TCS . Students spend around 30-40% of their
contact class hours with industry leaders including guest lectures and training by
industry experts.
The emphasis of the course is networking and real life case studies and project work.
Students also work on live projects involving real data and business problems. This
live project is expected to provide hands on industry experience by working out data
driven solutions to business problems. The project duration is for 2-3 months.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM
IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS
(EPBA)
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POST GRADUATE
CERTIFICATE IN PREDICTIVE
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
BRIDGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
BRIDGE School of Management is a flagship business school launched via a joint venture
between HT Media Ltd. & Apollo Global, Inc. (USA). Apollo Global (www.apolloglobal.us) is one
of the worlds leading higher education providing companies.
The certificate program has been specially created for India by academicians from Northwestern
University and top industry experts using real-world problems and situations. The Northwestern
and Bridge School initiative combines online content developed and taught by Northwestern
faculty with weekly in-person sessions led by local specialist faculty at the Bridge Schools
learning centers.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
1. Apply analytics tools to real-world business contexts for improved decision making
2. Assess the strengths and limitations of analytics and predictive modeling techniques for
different business applications and varying data conditions
3. Acquire hands-on experience working with leading statistical tools and software
packages (such as R) in predictive modeling and the visual analysis of results
4. Effectively communicate the actionable insights stemming from analytical work to
multiple stakeholders
5. Strategically navigate technology tools and trends to solve big data and analytics
problems
6. Manage data strategies and analytical projects.
CERTIFICATION & DURATION
1. The Certificate in Predictive Business Analytics is a 40 weeks program.
a. Joint Certification from Northwestern and Bridge: A successful completion of the
program will
earn you a certification in Predictive Business Analytics from Northwestern University
(SPS) &
BRIDGE School of Management.
2. The Advanced Certificate in Analytics is an 8 week long program. After completing the
Certificate in
Predictive Business Analytics, students may continue their education and earn an
advanced certificate
3. For fresh graduates, (0- 11 months of work experience), the Certificate in Predictive
Business Analytics includes specialization and internship is a 58 week long program.
SP JAIN SCHOOL OF
GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
The course is being offered at S P Jains spanking new campus at Lower Parel, which
boasts of State of the art facilities, in the heart of the citys business center.
BDAP is designed to explore, analyze and unravel the complex, unstructured
data-driven world. The program kicks of with 10 core courses that build a strong
foundation for the second stage of the program, which incorporates more in-depth
and application-based learning. Given the need for specialist knowledge, it provides a
range of courses in topics like data mining, machine learning, visualization techniques,
predictive modeling, and statistics.
The programme content builds on basic concepts, teaches tools and technologies
that are currently prevalent in industry and progresses to cutting edge-topics like
machine learning and Natural Language Processing.
On completion of the program students would have learned to apply quantitative
modeling and data analysis techniques to solve real world business problems,
successfully present results using data visualization techniques, demonstrate
knowledge of statistical data analysis techniques utilized in business decisionmaking, apply principles of Data Science to the analysis of business problems, use
data mining software to solve real-world problems and employ cutting edge tools and
technologies to analyze Big Data.
The program is delivered by a faculty that is an equal mix of academicians and industry
practitioners with a key proportion of overseas instructors thus lending the course a
global perspective.
This program equips students to fill the need for sophisticated expertise in varied
domains such as IT, Consulting, BFSI, Telecom and Media and in specializations
like data mining, data modeling, data architecture, extraction, transformation, loading
development and business intelligence development. The acquired techniques are
increasingly essentially required for roles like Data Scientists, Analysts, Developers
and Consultants.
The programme is being offered in two formats. The full time format will have a total
classroom contact hours of 400 and will be delivered on Weekdays for duration of 6
months. The Part time format will also have a 400 contact hours but will be delivered
only on weekends for duration of 12 months.
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
IN BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS
(BDAP)
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IIM RANCHI
Executive Program in business analytics and business intelligence (Saturday to next Sunday
with one week leave) is specially designed to provide inputs which will equip the participants
with analytical tools and prepare them for corporate roles in analytics-based consulting.
These inputs will provide a basis for the participants to channelize their analytical thinking
in appropriate directions, besides, enhancing knowledge. The skills so acquired may be
effectively utilized in their day-to-day work and thereby promoting the quality of business
decisions.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME
1. To enable the participants to understand and use the tools and techniques for
business analytics and business intelligence.
2. To enable the participants to make use of large volume of data for meaningful business
decisions and strategy
3. To impart hands-on-experience with various softwares, like, (i) R, (ii) SAS (iii) Python
(iv) SPSS
PEDAGOGY OF THE PROGRAMME
The participants will learn the concepts and implications of business analytics & business
intelligence through class room lectures, interactive discussions, case studies and handson-experience. Both conceptual and practical sides will be addressed.
PARTICIPANTS PROFILE
The course is suitable for those with analytical aptitude and would like to start new career in
analytics. The course is also appropriate for those who are working in business analytics and
business intelligence to enhance their knowledge and skill.
PROGRAMME DETAILS
Location of the Programme: Bengaluru
Certificate: All the participants will get a certificate of participation issued by IIM Ranchi
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM IN
BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
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PGDM WITH
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
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IMT GHAZIABAD
This is a unique course which prepares you for the world of work in analytics in companies.
Students having opted for this course in the previous years have found placement offers
from leading companies, the designations include Data analyst, Business development
Manager, and Business Analyst and research analyst. The course gives you a blend of
industry knowledge, concepts and experiential learning through collaborative teaching by
industry experts. Take the first step in joining the course; we will then help you to complete
the journey into a person well-versed with the art and science of analytics.
Pedagogy
The pedagogy will be a mix of lectures, experience sharing, real life case discussion,
assignments and industry/research based projects. The course is focused on strategic
issues with cases as the primary vehicle for learning. In addition to the reading materials,
additional readings and cases will be distributed in the class from time to time. Students are
also expected to prepare and analyze all the cases as class participation is very important.
There are four main pillars in the course pedagogy, namely, (a) lectures-cum-PPTs to
share the conceptual frameworks; (b) experience sharing through collaborative teaching
by industry experts; (c) hands-on Statistica Data mining tools, computer-lab based; and
(d) case studies of leading organizations selected from Harvard Cases and other sources.
The course requires a high degree of interactions in the class on part of the students and
feedback on their hands-on work is provided by industry experts.
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