Hi Aspirant,

The business analytics program offered by NMIMS is provided in collaboration with UpGrad. It’s an MBA executive course in business analytics. There are also good institutes that offer business analytics course, such as Great Learning, Learnbay, and Simplilearn.

The real experience of this program:

• It is an Executive Education program in MBA with a specialty in Business Analytics. In addition to standard organization management themes, you will be introduced to ML.
• It is pretty expensive. The course costs roughly 4 lakh rupees. It is, nevertheless, in the same price range as other MBA programs.
• The whole course lasts for almost 18 months and it is divided into five parts, with the exception of the final term, which consists mostly of a capstone project.
• Each subject is finished in around two weeks, containing four 3-hour live classes (usually on weekends) and 20 hours of pre-recorded materials.
• Learners with non-technical expertise may struggle to learn courses such as Python or advanced ML. Nevertheless, assistance is available for clarification of doubts.
• Industry experts supervise the term-end examinations. For each backlog, you must pay a fee of Rs. 2500 to re-appear in the exam.
• Apart from a few exceptions, not all the live sessions are interactive classes is the greatest thing you can imagine.

The course is claimed to have +200 learning hours, but that are not hours of efficient learning due to the large batch size. The classes are live, but the interaction with the faculty members is inefficient. You need domain expertise to land a job in your desired field, this course does not provide domain related expertise for everyone.

The enrollment of the eligibility is quite common 55% in all graduation, 12th and 10th. Anyone from a particular domain is preferred. 3 years or 2 years of work experience is mandatory to join this course.

The technical support team is available from 9 am to 9pm all day. The doubt resolution classes are held only on weekends which makes it less efficient to resolve the doubts then and there. The faculty members are from NMIMS so they are teaching faculty which might get ineffective during interview preparation.

The industry projects are beginners friendly and the projects are interesting to perform. Even with the group projects, but still in online learning with a large number of students it seems dicey to get a proper output of industry projects. In business analytics it is essential to get exposure of domain oriented project experience for better understanding of the subject and the course.

Job assistance is still a question. After course completion the job referrals would be done and that will give a good direction to students career is still a doubt. To get a job in a desired industry is the top priority of the candidate. If you do not get a placement you need to get domain experience. That is necessary to apply for a job outside the institute.

You can see all the drawbacks and advantages of this program. Every course has drawbacks. But your money is earned from hard work. You should invest in a course after doing good research. It’s important that you gain industry knowledge with a comfortable form of learning. There is one such institute that is best known for providing industry expertise with job referrals guarantee. Learnbay is the institute for domain specialization with a certification from.

There are many institutes that offer certification from great institutions, but for the employers it's just an attractive feature in your resume. You should focus on getting real industry experience and practical knowledge. Practical knowledge is everything from you will be tested and work in great MNCs in the future.

All the best.