As a student of PG Diploma in Data Analytics at IIIT Bangalore, here is my honest opinion of this course-

The admission counselors will hide necessary information from you, and lure you into spending Lakhs. After payment of the fee, they won’t receive any inquiry calls from you.

The course content isn’t worth the high fee. There are better and far cheaper courses available on Jigsaw/ Datacamp. The pace is very hectic as well. Assignments are very burdensome, especially for working professionals. This course is not professional friendly, unlike what the admission counselors will tell you.

Getting a diploma certificate is next to impossible upon failing in more than one subject. You’ll be taught way less, and burdened way more. The difficulty level of exams is very high. There’s a lot of strictness regarding assignment submissions. Late submissions aren’t excused at all. Plagiarism results in direct course termination. Placements aren’t guaranteed.

Considering all this, I won’t recommend you join this course at IIIT Bangalore.

If you are interested in pursuing an Executive Education program in MBA with a specialty in Business Analytics, there are multiple options to consider. The business analytics program from NMIMS is one such option, which is provided in collaboration with UpGrad.

This course includes ML in addition to standard organization management themes. However, the cost of the course is pretty expensive, around 4 lakh rupees, and the batch size is quite large, which could hinder efficient learning. Learners with non-technical expertise may struggle with the technical aspects of the course, but assistance is available for clarification of doubts. The faculty members are from NMIMS, so they are teaching faculty, which may get ineffective during interview preparation.

If you are interested in pursuing a course that is best known for providing industrial expertise with job referrals guarantee, Learnbay is the institute for domain specialization with a certification from IBM. The course is suitable for young professionals with less than six months career gap or less than a year's experience in any industry. The course is designed with the aims and objectives of both new and seasoned workers in mind. The courses are specific to your sector of interest, which will aid you in job interviews and boost your chances of being hired. The certification is industry-specific, and you can consult with Learnbay professors for free if you have questions on two or more topics.

The courses include personalized and capstone projects, and the duration is 200+ hours of learning for a total of 6 months. There are both online and traditional classroom formats available for the programs, and you will work on both group and individual projects in your role. You will have access to previously attended lectures for the rest of your life, and a one-on-one session is available every day to discuss any issues that may occur. Any current batch can be joined at any time of day, and student assistance will be provided seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The subscription will last three years, and you will be able to learn at your own pace.

You can switch between weekend and weekday batches at any time. More than 300 hours of in-person or online teaching will be provided, and the courses are designed with the goals and objectives of both new and seasoned professionals in mind by IBM executives and Learnbay instructors. There are offline training options available while working on new projects in a number of locations. The Learnbay offices are located in Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Bangalore, and you can join your peers in offline classes or participate in live interactive sessions from the comfort of your own home online. There's also a hybrid option where you can take capstone and individual project classes both online and in person.

Mock interviews and guaranteed job referrals are available with Learnbay. Members of the faculty have worked for firms including Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. You can work on capstone and individual projects in any industry, and IBM will stamp your certificate with your domain specialty when you complete the course. In addition, the courses are beginners friendly, and the projects are interesting to perform. The course also provides exposure to domain-oriented project experience for a better understanding of the subject and the course.

PGDBA is now in its third year, and people are not only interested in it, but also competing fiercely for admission.

This course has a broad scope. Students learn a wide range of languages, tools, and models used in data science. In addition, one must work with real-world industry problems involving data sizes of up to Terabytes. To compute those massive data sets, the cloud would be required the majority of the time. Learning there is unlike anything you can imagine. There are no online MOOCs that can compare to what this course has to offer. The PGDBA syllabus is not fixed; it can change in response to industry and technological demands and trends. You can rest assured that you will be given the best technologies and equipment available, as well as managerial skills.

IIM Bangalore has been rated 9.2 out of 10 by the Collegedunia experts. IIMB ranked second among all topmost institutes of management in India. It would be a good option for pursuing Business Analytics & Intelligence (BAI). 

A few advantages of this course from IIMB are mentioned below:

1.  IIMB has achieved the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation awarded by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
2.  You get access to the same professors like U. Dinesh Kumar, Ishwar Murthy who instruct in degree programs.
3. You have the opportunity to network with people from a variety of backgrounds, including mechanical engineers, salespeople, data scientists, and research associates. They are all enrolled in the program with the same goal in mind: to gain knowledge of business analytics concepts and improve their enterprises.
4. IIM Bangalore faculty members have published more than 20 analytics case studies at the Harvard Business Publishing a record for any Indian Institute.
5. Participants will get a certificate of completion from IIMB after the program.

In order to pursue Business Analytics from IIM Bangalore, you should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Science/Commerce/Arts with mathematics as one of the subjects during your Bachelor’s program. The candidates who are shortlisted are then interviewed based on their performance on the online aptitude test and past academic performance, quality of work experience, and suitability for an analytics position.

Although the preferable work experience is 3 years, in certain cases, people with lesser work experience are also granted admission. 

Overall, in order to pursue a Business Analytics course, you need excellent grades, 3 years of work experience, and a decent knowledge of statistics. Additionally, you will have to prepare well to answer Why you want to pursue the course and how are you planning to apply analytics in your work. 

The MBA Data Analytics course is designed to study the process of collecting and analyzing and processing raw data to provide insights into the data to the required domain.

Duration: 2 years (full-time)

Fees: INR 24.70

Job Opportunities: The job opportunities one can get from this program involve roles like Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Analytics Consultant, Risk Analyst, and Healthcare Data Analyst among others. 

Apart from these, you can also pursue a career as a professor or lecturer in reputed colleges or institutes.

K Placements: IIM Bangalore concluded the Placements 2022 with an Average Salary of Rs.33.82 LPA for Post Graduate Programme MBA Business Analytics. The Top Recruiters included American Express, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, EY, Microsoft, etc