QST BA at Boston University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate QST BA coursework.

• QST BA 780Introduction to Data Analyticsopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• QST BA 820Unsupervised and Unstructured Machine Learningopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• QST BA 222Modeling Business Decisions and Market Outcomes with Spreadsheets and Statistical Programmingopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate QST BA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 17 QST BA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more QST BA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in QST BA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at QST BA 843

  1. QST BA 600Introduction to Programming with Python
  2. QST BA 780Introduction to Data Analytics
  3. QST BA 820Unsupervised and Unstructured Machine Learning
  4. QST BA 843Big Data Analytics for Business

• 3 courses deep, ending at QST BA 305

  1. QST BA 221Introduction to Data and Business Analytics
  2. QST BA 222Modeling Business Decisions and Market Outcomes with Spreadsheets and Statistical Programming
  3. QST BA 305Business Decision-Making with Data

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for QST BA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under QST BA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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