online bachelor's degree of business analysis and management
Spring term classes start March.
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$459 per credit hour.
$250 military preferred cost per credit
127 total credit hours.
provide businesses with smarter analysis for better solutions.
The Business Analysis and Management degree equips you to analyze a business as an information technology or business professional and enhances your skills in process analysis, requirements analysis, and project management.
The Business Analysis and Management degree program provides a solid foundation in:
- business analysis
- planning and monitoring
- elicitation and collaboration
- requirements lifecycle management
- strategy analysis
- design definition
- solution evaluation
- techniques and competencies (including intermediate Excel)
- project management within an agile methodology
Take one course at a time in an accelerated business analyst degree online.
Transfer in with an associate degree (or at least 60 credits from a previous institution), and earn your business analysis degree as part of an accelerated cohort.* The cohort offers a simplified study experience that involves registering once for major courses at the beginning of the program and taking the courses in order with the same group of peers online—having more collaborative experiences and graduating with a stronger network to start your career.
Business analysts - learn the skills you need for CBAP® Certification.
IIBA® has endorsed this Business Analysis and Management degree program and Bellevue University is an Academic Member of the International Institute of Business Analysis. This degree program also prepares students for the Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®) Certification.
what you'll learn.
In this program, you’ll learn to plan, analyze, and manage business processes—building the skills to design effective solutions that drive organizational success.
upon graduation, students will be able to:
- Create a comprehensive Business Analysis Approach Plan, demonstrating all knowledge areas examined in the program.
- Develop a comprehensive Business Analysis Activities Plan, based on organizational requirements.
- Demonstrate the use of essential techniques and competencies used in Business Analysis.
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Business Analysis and Management degree courses
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Requirements (36 credit hours)
This course is designed to introduce the basic understanding of the Business Analysis professional discipline, the competencies, benefits, functions, key concepts, and impact of the business analysis professional. This course will help elevate, develop, and refine the foundation of business analysis skills. The BAMC program defines the most important skills necessary to effectively perform business analysis work.
This course examines the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Area. It provides the examination of the business analysis work on a given initiative, planning and how and when tasks will be performed, and the deliverables that will be produced. Examining change as the initiative proceeds and the business analysis professional gains a deeper understanding of the role and how it fits with its stakeholders. A project capstone proposal initiates in this course and will demonstrate the student's knowledge through the program courses.
This course examines the Elicitation and Collaboration concepts. It examines the tasks that business analysis professionals perform to obtain information from stakeholders and examines the communication skills required to work with stakeholders once the business analysis professional has assembled the stakeholders' requirements. The Elicitation and Collaboration knowledge area sets the foundation for analysis professionals to perform elicitation and collaboration from stakeholders and how to confirm the results.
This course examines the Requirements Life Cycle Management concepts as well as the tasks that analysis professionals perform to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement. It reviews ethical standards that relate to the business analysis role. The course examines how technology relates to organizational design and business strategy. These tasks describe meaningful relationships between related requirements and designs, assessing changes to requirements and designs when changes are proposed, scope management, and analyzing and gaining consensus on scope changes.
This course examines the Strategy Analysis concepts. It is the most effective way to apply the capabilities of an enterprise to reach the desired set of goals and objectives. Strategies may exist for the entire enterprise, for a division, department, or region, and a product, project, or iteration. This study describes the business analysis professionals' work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance. The course also provides introduction on how to apply an agile mindset to the fundamental knowledge, competencies, and techniques of business analysis. The agile mindset is an integrated component of the remaining courses in the Business Management Analysis program.
This course introduces a wide array of Requirements Analysis and Design Definitions. The course examines the best practices business analysis perform to structure and organize requirements during elicitation activities, specifies and reviews the multiple modeling design opportunities, validates, and verifies information, as well as covers the incremental and iterative activities from the initial concept and exploration through the transformation into a recommended solution.
This course introduces Solution Evaluation and how Business Analysts enhance the performance of and value delivered by a solution selected by the enterprise and recommends the removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value. Solution evaluation tasks that support the realization of benefits may occur before a change is initiated, while the current value is assessed, or after a solution has been implemented.
The course examines the underlying competencies and techniques. The behaviors, characteristics, knowledge, and personal qualities that support the practice of business analysis. It evaluates techniques used by the analyst professional during the design scope. Business process mapping techniques are introduced, and how the mapping solutions link the business objectives to a solution. Perspectives are examined to determine how the business analysis work to provide a focus on tasks and techniques specific to the context of the initiative. The course also provides an introduction to Excel for Business Analysis with a focus on intermediate Excel functions and tools that Excel has to help conduct business analysis examinations of data.
This course examines the project manager's services, products, or results of a project to achieve the set objectives and how the business analysis focuses on understanding the stakeholders' needs and defining solutions that will meet those needs. The course examines the Project Manager and the Business Analysis professional roles working together within projects with an introduction to the agile methodology. Microsoft Project is utilized in this course to provide hands-on experience. Agile roles and principles are examined to demonstrate how software development and project management all work together cohesively. This course examines how Agile teams deliver work in small, workable increments, thus delivering value to their customers with ease. The BAMC capstone assignment is demonstrated from the knowledge of all BAMC courses and as a group through is completed in this course.
Kirkpatrick Signature Series Requirements (9 credit hours)
In addition to the Major Requirements, all Bellevue University students must complete the Kirkpatrick Signature Series.
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Integrative General Education Credits
Major Requirements Credits
Elective Credits
= 127 total credits*
General Education Courses
Take general education courses that do more than fill a requirement. At Bellevue University, these courses build foundational skills that apply to any career—critical thinking, qualitative reasoning, and ethical leadership. And, you can take courses individually or in course clusters, which connect three courses around one theme, building skills as you go.
About general education requirements >Elective Courses
Our broad selection of electives allows you to select courses related to your major or expand your perspective in other areas of interest.
University Accreditation
Bellevue University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission ( hlcommission.org ), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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This program is considered a non-licensure degree/certificate program and is not intended for those seeking licensure or the practice of licensed profession. This program may be relevant to multiple occupations that do not require licensure and was not designed to meet educational requirements for any specific professional license or certification.
*Consult with an admissions counselor to determine your eligible credits, as well as to verify minimum graduation requirements for this degree. Transfer credits must be from a regionally accredited college or university. Bellevue University makes no promises to prospective students regarding the acceptance of credit awarded by examination, credit for prior learning, or credit for transfer until an evaluation has been conducted.
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