Prescriptive Analytics - Study line

Prescriptive Analytics

The tools used by an engineer in Business Analytics, are often grouped in:

• Descriptive Analytics, which can answer the question “What has happened?”
• Predictive Analytics, that focus more on finding out “What will happen?”
• Prescriptive Analytics, where actions are taken and thus answers the question “What should we do?”

The MSc in Business Analytics builds upon this concept and offers three optional study lines, each allowing you to become a specialist in certain areas:

• Predictive Analytics
• Prescriptive Analytics
• Transport Analytics

The study line Prescriptive Analytics will bring the student to focus on advanced optimization methods. You will learn not only how to solve planning problems of any scale, but you will also be able to simulate their outcome.

Aside from the mandatory courses from the mandatory core competence courses, the study line Prescriptive Analytics requires you to select the core competence courses in the following matter.

Select the complementary courses to the one from the general competencies ( so that you will have taken all three courses): 

and at least two of the following courses:

Example study plans

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Winter start is a bit more complex, as most introductory courses will only be available on the second semester. The following study plan is an example of how a to follow the Prescriptive Analytics study line with winter start.afsnit