Analytics & Operations

Analytics & Operations

Organizations are gathering and analyzing more data than ever before. This trend is continuing to accelerate, and business managers are actively seeking business school graduates with data management and data analysis skills. The Analytics & Operations department offers introductory and advanced courses in the areas of business analytics, operations, and supply chain management. The faculty and students in the Analytics & Operations Department are interested in how organizations can organize and utilize data, in combination with statistical and optimization methods and information technology, to improve the quality and speed of business decisions and processes.

Concentration Requirements
Fact Sheet
Concentration Requirements
quote

I wanted to add a diverse skillset to my toolbox and challenge myself to learn a whole new framework to solve difficult business problems.

Jafet Rubi, ’22

Feature Stories

A photo of Ben Nguyen. He is smiling and holding one hand up to chin in a pose suggesting that he is thinking.
University of Richmond Magazine
Decision web

Morning person or night owl? Spider red or Spider blue? Duc (Ben) Nguyen, ’26, — the student speaker at this year’s commencement — makes the tough choices.

Bill Ridenour, R’79, and Gray Bigler, ’08 stand together on a padel court.
University of Richmond Magazine
Have you played padel yet?
Padel is a fast-growing global racket sport thanks in part to Richmond alumni Bill Ridenour, R’79, and Gary Bigler, ’08, whose business builds padel courts.
A group of women pose within a Class of 1996 frame.
University of Richmond Magazine
‘Crazy things’
Fifty years later, Richmond’s Class of 1976 recounts its legendary pranks and campus exploits at a reunion filled with laughter, nostalgia, and gin and tonics.