Information Technology
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Minor: Data Analytics

Career exploration guide

This guide provides tools to help you explore careers related to this specialization. Use this information to start researching this field and the opportunities in it. This research can help you make a transition into positions related to this field. Start by gaining an overview of this program and learning about the field, jobs, and employment settings that are related.

About this Minor

The Data Analytics minor is designed to provide learners with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to examine data in a variety of applications and settings. The curriculum addresses the range of process and workflow concepts and activities that comprise data analytics within an IT environment. Specific topics include data identification and collection as well as data cleansing and quality measurement. These topics are applied to data mining and analytics projects involving data transformation, manipulation, analysis, and presentation. This minor prepares learners to successfully solve IT problems using a variety of data analytics tools and techniques. Learners acquire an understanding of the roles of data governance and management as factors that impact data analytics with data preparation. Learners gain knowledge of transformation and manipulation in order to prepare datasets for business analysts and to create business solutions specific to the IT environment. This minor provides foundational information for learners with an interest in pursuing SAS® certifications.

Skills gained through this minor:

This minor was designed to help you gain the following skills related to this field:

  • Communicate effectively in business environments
  • Use IT tools for decision- making
  • Collaborate using IT tools in an organization
  • Solve loosely-defined problems with technology solutions
  • Understand ethical, legal, and policy issues associated with IT
  • Create IT solutions to solve organizational problems
  • Plan strategically for global and domestic environments
  • Design and modeling effective IT solutions for an organization
  • Understand the administrative process by which required data is acquired, validated, stored, protected, and processed
  • Develop fundamental skills for SAS certification

Explore this field

Professional associations, social networks, and other industry-specific resources can provide a wealth of information about a specific field or industry, including best practices, career overviews, trends and access to industry professionals. By reviewing website information, attending events, and connecting with people in the field, you can deepen your knowledge about the field. 

Professional associations

Industry information

Explore jobs and employers

In addition to exploring the field, take some time to research specific jobs and employment settings related to this program. Consider how these jobs and settings fit with your experience, skills, interests and values. This is a sample list of job titles and employment settings related to this field. To learn more, review job postings and talk with people who have these roles or work in these settings. You can find these professionals through LinkedIn, family, friends, schools, employers and community groups. Spend time researching your industry and prospective employers to decide whether this type of degree will help advance your career.

Related job titles to explore*

  • Data analyst
  • Solutions architect
  • Business analyst
  • Business intelligence analyst
  • Business intelligence developer
  • Software engineer
  • Systems engineer
  • Data architect
  • Systems analyst

Employment settings to explore

  • Financial services
  • Land-based or online college or university
  • Hospital
  • Computer systems design
  • Insurance carrier
  • Software publisher
  • Management, Scientific, and Technical consulting services
  • Manufacturing
  • Government - local, state, federal
  • Telecommunications

*These are examples intended to serve as a general guide. Some positions may prefer or even require previous experience, licensure, certifications, and/or other designations along with a degree. Because many factors determine what position an individual may attain, Capella cannot guarantee that a graduate will secure any specific job title, a promotion, salary increase, or other career outcome. We encourage you to research requirements for your job target and career goals.

Job boards

This is a sample of jobs boards with positions related to this field. Use them in your research to identify additional job titles, common hiring requirements and local employers. 

Further exploration

There are a lot of factors that influence whether a career is a fit or not. These can include monetary compensation, benefits, work environment, organization culture, work/life balance, etc. As you consider your career, think about what is important to you in your employer, role and setting. These resources can help you perform this additional exploration.

For a more detailed guide on career exploration, review Capella’s Career Exploration YouTube series that helps you identify what is important to you in your career and how that aligns with the world of work. 

Accreditation

Capella University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.