MBA in Business Analytics

Programme Curriculum

For more information on programme curriculum download the programme brochure.

Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. A limited selection of Electives will be offered at the discretion of the Institute.

Mode Of Examination

Mode of Examinations applicable for students admitted in Batch starting in January 2025 :

Semester 1, 2 and 3 have Mid-Semester Examinations and Comprehensive Examinations for each course. These examinations are mostly scheduled on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Students need to appear in person for taking the examinations at the institution’s designated examination centres as per the examination schedule, Instructions, rules and guidelines announced before every examination. 

Students can take their examination at any of our 34 designated examination centres in India at the following locations:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Hosur, Madurai, Kancheepuram and Coimbatore.

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Faridabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Bhilwara, Udaipur and Pilani.

West Zone: Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Ahilya Nagar, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Indore and Nagpur.

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, and Bhubaneswar.

In addition to these locations, the Institution also has a designated examination centre in Dubai.

During these semesters, in addition to the above mentioned Mid-Semester and Comprehensive examinations, there will also be Quizzes/Assignments conducted online on the Learning Management System (LMS) as per the course plan in which the students need to participate.

In Semester 4 (Final Semester), the student will be doing Dissertation/Project Work as per the Institution’s guidelines.

For International Students: 

• In addition to the above locations, the institution also has a designated international examination centre, located in Dubai.
• To facilitate the learning of international students, applying from any other location except India and Dubai, the mode of examinations will be online, which can be availed by meeting the requirements of the institute.
• To know more about the requirements for online examinations, Click here

• Indian students, who are temporarily based out of India, can also avail of online examinations on request by meeting the above-mentioned requirements of the institute.

How to Apply

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2. Once you have logged in, you will see a screen showing 4 essential steps to be completed to apply for the programme of your choice.
3. Begin by clicking on Step 1 - ‘Fill/ Edit and Submit Application Form’. This will enable you to select the programme of your choice. After you have chosen your programme, you will be asked to fill your details in an online form. You must fill all the details and press ‘Submit’ button given at the bottom of the form.
4. Take the next step by clicking on Step 2 - 'Download Application PDF Copy’. This will download a pdf copy of the application form on your computer.
5. Now, click on Step 3 - 'Pay Application Fee’ to pay INR 1,500/- using Netbanking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card.
6. Take a printout of the downloaded Application Form and note down the Application Form Number displayed on the top-right corner of the first page. This Application Form Number should be referred in all future correspondence with BITS Pilani.

7. In the printout of the downloaded Application Form, you will notice on page no. 3 a section called the Employer Consent Form. Complete the Employer Consent Form. This form needs to be signed and stamped by your organisation’s HR or any other authorised signatory of the company.

   Important: In view of work-from-home policies mandated by many organisations, a few candidates may not be able to get the physical forms signed by their HR/ other authorised organisational representative. Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the HR using the format available through this link.

8. Further on page no. 4 of the printed Application Form is a section called the Mentor Consent Form. The Mentor Consent Form needs to be signed by the Mentor. Click here to know who could be a Mentor.

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   Who is a Mentor:

   Candidates applying to Work Integrated Learning Programmes must choose a Mentor, who will monitor the academic progress of the candidate, and act as an advisor & coach for successful completion of the programme. Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person from the same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same organisation, a candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who has the required qualifications. Wherever the proposed Mentor is not from the same employing organization as that of the candidate, a supporting document giving justification for the same should be provided by the candidate’s employer.

   Candidates applying to B.Tech. programmes should choose a Mentor who is an employed professional with B.E./ B.S./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ A.M.I.E./ Integrated First Degree of BITS or equivalent

   Candidates applying to M.Tech., M.Sc., MBA, M.Phil programme should choose a Mentor who is an employedprofessional with:

   • B.E. / M.Sc. / M.B.A. / M.C.A. / M.B.B.S. etc. and with a minimum of five years of relevant work experience

   • M.E./ M.S./ M.Tech./ M.Phil./ M.D./ Higher Degree of BITS or equivalent

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   Important: In view of work-from-home policies mandated by many organisations, a few candidates may not be able to get the physical forms signed by their Mentor. Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the Mentor using the format available through this link.

9. Further on page no. 5 of the downloaded Application Form, is a Checklist of Enclosures/ Attachments.
10. Make photocopies of the documents mentioned in this Checklist.
11. Applicants are required to self-attest all academic mark sheets and certificates.
12. Finally, click on Step 4 - 'Upload & Submit All Required Documents’. This will allow you to upload one-by-one the printed Application Form, Mentor Consent Form, Employer Consent Form, and all mandatory supporting documents and complete the application process. Acceptable file formats for uploading these documents are DOC, DOCX, PDF, ZIP and JPEG.
13. Upon receipt of your Application Form and all other enclosures, the Admissions Cell will scrutinise them for completeness, accuracy and eligibility.
14. Admission Cell will intimate selected candidates by email within two weeks of submission of application with all supporting documents. The selection status can also be checked by logging in to the Online Application Centre.

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Featured Faculty

Prof. Vamsidhar Ambatipudi

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Prof. Vamsidhar Ambatipudi

Prof. Vamsidhar Ambatipudi is an Associate Professor in the Management Department, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. He is a qualified fellow of Institute of Actuaries of India (FIAI), Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) and a Professional Risk Manager (PRM®). He also holds an undergraduate degree in computer science engineering and an MBA from IIM Indore. He has around 20 years of work experience in IT and education sectors primarily in the BFSI domain, including 7 years of entrepreneurial experience. His current research interest lies in application of machine learning techniques to solving finance and business problems. He joined BITS Pilani on 7-Aug-2019.
He is a continuous learner constantly motivated by Numbers, Calculations (Mathematics and Statistics), Data Analysis and model building. He is passionate teacher and had successfully taught various hands on practical courses in finance, analytics and actuarial science using EXCEL, R, SPSS, and Python at various premier institutions and organizations across the country as a guest faculty and a corporate trainer. At BITS Pilani, he teaches courses in the areas of financial modelling and analytics, risk modelling, data science and statistics. He always enjoys designing new courses, and mentoring the students

Dr. Gaurav Nagpal

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Dr. Gaurav Nagpal

Dr. Gaurav Nagpal is an Assistant Professor in the Management Group (Off-Campus) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He received his Ph.D. from BITS Pilani and is a full-time MBA from IIFT Delhi. He has also done EPMBD (one-year executive program in managing business decisions) from IIM Calcutta and is CSCP qualified from APICS. He was a 99.83 percentile scorer in the GATE exam in the year 2004. He cleared the Indian Engineering Services exam (conducted by UPSC) in 2006. He is also UGC NET Qualified, and CFA L-1.
He has fourteen years of experience of which roughly twelve years were in the industry. Even during his stint in the corporate world, he had been taking up guest faculty assignments. He started his career with NTPC in 2005. While working with NTPC, he also used to teach Quantitative Aptitude to the CAT aspirants at TIME Education during the weekends for a period of 2 years. He also worked with Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Escorts Agri-machinery Group, and Aircel. He was the recipient of the ACET Award at Daimler India Commercial Vehicles. While working in these organizations, he performed visiting faculty assignments during the weekends for the MBA courses with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi, and ICFAI Business School. The last 7 years of his industry experience were at the senior leadership level when he reported directly to the CXOs and VPs. His last industry assignment was with the leading grocery e-commerce firm “Grofers” as Associate Director- Business Planning when his love for academics made him quit the industry at a senior leadership position and take up a full-time academic career by joining BITS Pilani.
He teaches courses in the three broad domains of Analytics, Operations, and Finance. He teaches Marketing Analytics, Retail Analytics, Quantitative Methods, Operations Research Models, and Advanced Statistical Methods within the analytics domain. While within the Operations domain, he teaches Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Total Quality Management. He has also taught the finance courses of Corporate Finance and Business Analysis & Valuation. He is the workstream owner of MBA in Business Analytics and MBA in Quality Management for working professionals at BITS Pilani. He is also the program coordinator for MBA in Business Analytics and MBA in Finance programs with Hindustan Zinc.
He is also the Practice School Lead for the management-domain industry projects at BITS Pilani and is a networking faculty for more than 50 organizations for the practice school projects. He also organizes webinars by the industry experts each year for the students attending the practice school-1.
He has research interests in data analytics, operations research, operations management, and supply chain management. He has published 7 research articles in SCI/ ABDC/ Scopus/ Web of Science journals and 7 book chapters in peer-reviewed books of reputed publishers. He has also published a few academic case studies in reputed case repositories that can be used by the business schools for teaching purposes in the classroom. He also loves to write articles for newspapers or blogs that discuss some management or business perspective in very simple terms and can be absorbed by a common man. He has got the two awards for best research paper presentation- one from IMI Delhi and the other from NIT Trichy, He has presented many of his research papers at conferences at IIM Bengaluru, IIM Raipur, IIM Kozhikode, IIFT Delhi, Delhi University, IMI- Delhi, IMI-Bhubaneswar, and FIIB Delhi. He is a member of the Association of Inventory Academicians and Practitioners.

Prof. Sidharth Mishra

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Prof. Sidharth Mishra

Prof. Sidharth Mishra has over twenty-five years of work experience in the corporate sector in the areas of sales, marketing, and product development. He has experience working for leading companies like LG, Samsung, and HCL in the consumer electronics and IT industry as well as firms in the start-up sector. Mr. Mishra's areas of interest include Marketing, Leadership and Innovation, economics, and business analytics

Dr. Anjani Srikanth Koka

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Dr. Anjani Srikanth Koka

Dr. Anjani Srikanth Koka is an Assistant Professor of the Management Group, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. Dr. Srikanth did his M.Sc (Hons.) Mathematics and Master of Management Studies from BITS, Pilani – Pilani Campus and PhD from BITS, Pilani – K.K.Birla Goa Campus. He has over 2 years of experience in the IT industry. He is very passionate about teaching and joined BITS, Pilani in July 2009. He teaches courses in the areas of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Soft Skills, and Professional Communication.

Prof. Krishnamurthy Bindumadhavan

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Prof. Krishnamurthy Bindumadhavan

Prof. Krishnamurthy Bindumadhavan is a Professor and Group Leader of the Management Group, Off Campus Programs at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is based out of Hyderabad. Prof. Bindumadhavan is a Fellow of IIM, Kashipur (equivalent to PhD), CFA charterholder from CFA Institute, USA and FRM titleholder from GARP, USA. He also holds an MBA from University of Kentucky, USA and an Undergraduate Degree in Engineering. He has over 15 years of international experience in the banking and financial services industry, including 8 years with Capital One, a top 10 US bank, based out of Richmond, Virginia. In addition to working for a bank he has also worked as a consultant, entrepreneur and faculty among other roles. He is very passionate about teaching and joined BITS, Pilani in December 2014.

Prof. Sandeep Kayastha

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Prof. Sandeep Kayastha

Prof. Sandeep Kayastha is an Associate Professor in off-campus programs. He completed his MTech from IIT Kharagpur. Prof Sandeep teaches MBA level courses in Operations Management and allied areas, and conducts Management Development Programs for senior executives in the manufacturing industry. Before joining BITS he worked as a faculty member in several leading educational and research institutes of the country.
Sandeep Kayastha is an active researcher. His current areas of research are marketing and contract law, workload reduction, simulation, and history of technology.

Annapoorna Gopal

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Annapoorna Gopal

Dr. Annapoorna Gopal is an MCA graduate from Bangalore University and PhD in Management from SIBM, with over 25 years of experience in the academia and IT Services industry, spanning multiple roles. She has worked with Christ University, Bangalore, Wipro Ltd and BITS, Pilani. An output oriented faculty, with a thirst for facilitating learning by leveraging on innovative methods, so as to enable her students to apply the learning at the workplace. In her current role, she facilitates courses on subjects related to Strategy, HRM, Consultancy Practice and Change Management, to work integrated learning professionals, as part of their MBA program.  Certified Trainer for OOAD/UML/ROSE, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Insync Certified Faculty for ‘Online Synchronous Training’. She is a recipient of several awards and accolades such as ‘Feather in My Cap Award for outstanding work’, ‘Dear Boss Award from the team’ and 3 rd place in ’Doctoral Paper Competition at AIMS-5‘

Prof. Ramesh Venkatraman

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Prof. Ramesh Venkatraman

Prof. Ramesh Venkatraman is an Associate Professor in the Management Group, Off Campus Work Integrated Learning Programmes, at BITS Pilani. He is based out of Chennai. Prof. Ramesh holds an MBA from IIT-Madras and BE in Electronics & Communication Engineering from CIT-Coimbatore. He is also a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) from QAI-USA, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) from ISACA-USA. He has over 17 years of post-MBA experience in the IT Services industry in leadership roles in organizations such as Infosys, Xansa, HP, and LTI. He has successfully led many initiatives in the areas of Quality Management, Risk Management, IT Service Management, and Delivery Excellence. He is a professional member of ISACA and SPIN. He is passionate about teaching and joined BITS Pilani in January 2021.

FAQs

1. Is this programme approved by UGC?

MBA in Business Analytics is a BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes are UGC approved.

2. Who can apply to this programme?

This programme is designed for working professionals. At the time of submitting the application, candidates must be employed in another organization. Professionals who are owners of a registered business are also eligible to apply.
For detailed information, including academic background, work experience, etc. refer to the programme eligibility criteria.

3. How are classes conducted?

Contact classes are conducted over a technology enabled platform. These classes can be attended via the internet using a computer from any location. These contact classes offer similar levels of interactivity as regular classrooms at the BITS Pilani campus. These are conducted usually over weekends or after business hours for a total of 7-8 hours per week. If you miss a lecture, you can also access the recorded lecture on the internet.

4. What kind of certificate will I receive at the end of the programme?

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will receive a degree certificate from BITS Pilani.

5. How will exams be conducted?

Each semester has a Mid-semester Exam and a Comprehensive Exam for each course, which are conducted over weekends. Students will need to appear in-person to take these exams at exams centers in the following locations:

India Centers:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Hosur, Madurai, Kancheepuram and Coimbatore.

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Faridabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Bhilwara, Udaipur and Pilani.

West Zone: Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Ahilya Nagar, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Indore and Nagpur.

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, and Bhubaneswar.

International Centers: Dubai

In case students are unable to take an exam due to work-related commitments, there is also a provision of appearing for Make-up Exams.

6. Will I be able to interact with the faculty members?

The programme provides a high degree of interactivity between students and the faculty members and programme instructors. Q&A sessions during the contact classes (which you can attend from anywhere over a technology enabled platform) allow participants to pose questions to the faculty members, and seek guidance through voice and chat. Further interaction with faculty members and peers is enabled through the e-learning portal, by using discussion forums and message boards.

7. How will I be able to run experiments and access labs for this program?

The programme features high usage of experiential learn components such as Simulations, Virtual Labs, and Remote Labs, in order to mimic the on-campus experience.
Participants will be given access to portals, that will allow them to access both cloud-based labs, as well as Campus-based physical labs. Using leading industry-recognised Software tools, Programming languages, and Simulation software, participants will be able to perform experiments and run simulations to advance their knowledge
 

8. Who is a Mentor? Will BITS Pilani help me find a mentor?

Candidates applying to the programmes must choose a Mentor, who will monitor the academic progress of the candidate, and act as an advisor & coach for successful completion of the programme. Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person from the same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same organisation, a candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who has the required qualifications. For detailed information, please refer to the programme brochure.
Kindly note that BITS Pilani does not assign Mentors to programme participants.

9. Do I need to visit a BITS campus during the programme?

The programme is designed for working professionals, and participants are not required to travel to a BITS campus. However, certain programme offer Campus Immersion Modules such as workshops or seminars, which are highly recommended but not mandatory. 

10. What is MBA in Business Analytics programme from BITS Pilani WILP?

• An MBA in Business Analytics is a post-graduate programme from BITS Pilani WILP,
• This programme combines the traditional business education of an MBA with specialized training in data analysis, statistics, and other analytical techniques.
• It aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to make data-driven decisions and address business problems.

11. What kind of courses can I expect in this MBA in Business Analytics programme?

• The courses offered in MBA in Business Analytics programme typically include statistics, data analysis, data management, machine learning, predictive analytics, optimization, and data visualization.
• In addition to these courses, students will also take core MBA courses in finance, marketing, accounting, and strategy.

12. What are the career opportunities after completing MBA in Business Analytics programme?

• Graduation in MBA in Business Analytics programme , one can consider pursuing a variety of careers in industries such as Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Technology, Marketing, HR and Consulting.
• New age Job titles may include Business analyst, Data analyst, Marketing analyst, Financial analyst, Research analyst, and Management consultant.

13. How long does it take to complete MBA in Business Analytics programme?

The BITS Pilani WILP's MBA in Business Analytics is 2 year programme extends over a duration of four semesters.

14. What are the admission requirements for MBA in Business Analytics programme?

Applicants applying for MBA in Business Analytics programme are required to meet the following criteria:

• Employed professionals with a B.E./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ Integrated First Degree from BITS or a equivalent qualification
• Achieving a minimum of 60% aggregate marks
• Along with a minimum of one-year relevant work experience after degree completion

OR

• Employed professionals with a three-year undergraduate degree such as B.Sc./ B.Com./ BCA, securing a minimum of 60% aggregate marks.
• Having undertaken at least one mathematics or statistics course at the high school or advanced level. Additionally,
• Along with a minimum of two years of relevant work experience after the completion of their degree.

15. What skills do I need to succeed in MBA in Business Analytics programme?

• Students aiming to succeed in MBA in Business Analytics programme would typically need to have strong quantitative skills such as An aptitude for analytical thinking, and a strong foundation in business fundamentals, such as finance or marketing or strategy.