One in a series of articles profiling university programs focusing on big data and analytics education.

Arizona State University is building a new Master of Science in Business Analytics program to start in the fall of 2013 that will focus on implementing analytics into day to day business processes and managing those systems.

Built by two departments in the W.P. Carey School of Business, information systems and supply chain management, the program is designed to prepare graduates to focus on business process improvement and optimization through data analytics, while also learning about what IT architecture is required to run those streaming analytics in real-time or near real-time.