This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

Options available:

• Finance
• Financial Analytics
• Marketing Insights and Analytics
• Supply Chain Analytics

The MSB provides students a focused exploration of a specific business discipline or topic. The degree program offers four specializations: Finance, Financial Analytics, Marketing Insights and Analytics, and Supply Chain Analytics.

The Finance track of our specialized Master’s of Science in Business provides focused training in financial markets and institutions as you study access to and use of money and capital. The coursework covers a wide range of finance topics including investments, portfolio analysis, international financial markets, derivatives and risk management, financial modeling, commercial banking and financial planning. Our graduates have career opportunities on the investment management and corporate side of the market from analyst to manager and executive positions.

Financial Analytics is an emerging field in finance that focuses on advanced quantitative side of financial analysis. Coursework includes traditional financial topics such as investments, portfolio analysis, derivatives and financial modeling, but with an additional focus on data and business analytics. Analytics skills such as data collection, analysis, visualization and communication are at the forefront of the field of finance and translate into excellence in forecasting, modeling, reporting and optimization. The specialized Master’s of Science in Business allows you to customize the degree with a wide range of electives.

The Marketing Insights and Analytics track of our specialized Master’s of Science in Business helps provide the critical link between the promise of abundant data and actionable business insights gleaned from these data. By focusing on the combination of marketing (which gives a theoretical understanding of what drives customer behaviors) and analytics (which provides big data analytical techniques), you’ll develop the skills to drive informed business decisions and marketing strategies. The Oregon State specialized Master’s of Science in Business allow you to customize the degree with a wide range of electives.

Supply Chain Analytics is a combination of the disciplines of Supply Chain and Logistics Management and Business Analytics. Supply Chain and Logistics Management develops a solid mastery of international operations, logistics, and supply chain management concepts and methods. Business Analytics leverages advances in software interoperability, data exchange mechanisms and data mining and visualization techniques to better understand their operations, customers, and markets enabling graduates to manage internal operations and global supply chains in the manufacturing and service sectors and in government agencies. The combination of these two disciplines into Supply Chain Analytics is a unique focus on the uses of data management and data analytics to explore the characteristics of supply chains and identify value-enhancing efficiencies.

Major Code: 2067

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Analyze the impact of an enterprise on its various stakeholders.
• Propose and collect data necessary to inform a discipline-based evaluation of a complex business challenge.
• Apply critical thinking skills to a business challenge in the presence of uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Organize and present in written and oral form a persuasive and comprehensive evaluation of a business challenge.

The MSB requires 45 credit hours of coursework. The curriculum includes:

• Five courses of general business foundational knowledge for 15 credits
• Minimum of 30 credits specific to the desired concentration

Major Code: 2067