

Leap to Success: MSBA Grad Joins Starbucks as Data Analyst
“Flawless curriculum design and implementation”
Recent grad Saya Banerjee attributes the MSBA curriculum for offering students the chance to collaborate with industry partners and tackle real-world business challenges.

Maximizing Business Value with Analytics: The UC Davis MSBA Practicum Experience
How we’re helping Gain Credit gain an edge in detecting customer fraud
The MSBA practicum brings diverse teams together to collaborate on analytics-based business problems with companies across industries, allowing us to gain experience and enhance our professional abilities.
Sprighub
Buy Better: Optimal User Paths and Spending
Students will have an excellent opportunity to understand customer journeys and online purchase behavior, as well as participate in the full life cycle of data attributions model developments. This is a small, nimble silicon valley startup and students will get to work directly with the founders who are subject matter experts in their fields.
Savvy Aviation
Establishing Aircraft Condition by Predictive Maintenance
Students on this project will provide a set of software tools and create staff workflows to convert the unstructured condition data into quality structured condition data as efficiently as possible.
Qualcomm
Future of Computing Devices
Qualcomm's Snapdragon compute platform brings the best of your smartphones together with the best of your laptop. Students on this project will dive deep into the ever-growing Compute market and analyze consumer needs, changing market demands and rapidly growing technological advancements to provide business insights to Qualcomm.
Kyron Learning
Fourth-Grade Math and Markov Chains: The Little Chatbot That Could
This project is something completely different. Students will work with the conversational AI startup to build a chatbot which will take the best instruction from the best math teachers and make it available to students worldwide.
KQED
Forecasting the Future: KQED's Broadcast & Membership Evolution
Students will perform an in-depth analysis of KQED's members with respect to their age and historical giving, including channels by which they give (direct mail, digital, and on-air pledge). While working on this project, students will gain deep skills in data analytics, modeling and consumer trends.
Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)
DHCS Health Informatics
Working with the DHCS team will give students invaluable experience and insight into the California health services programs. Students will get an in-depth insight into the collection, analysis, management, and dissemination of quality data and data products for programs to make sound, data-driven decisions supporting program needs and requirements regarding health care in California.
ChargePoint
Establishing a Commanding Presence in the Emerging Fleet Industry Market
Students will get a first-hand view of how financial models and pricing information drive a successful business. They will work on pricing and discount analysis, revenue management, and various customer segmentation methods along with the ins and outs of the electric vehicle domain.
ChangeBridge LLC
Improving Management Effectiveness in Organizational Change
The Challenge of changing a business is in the risk that its organization will not successfully adapt to the accompanying new demands. This project will give students invaluable experience and insight onto the organizational design industry. It will also require students to develop a demonstrable capability to use and coordinate predictive analytics, business user collaboration platforms, and management communications.
American Eagle Outfitters
Store to Store Inventory Transfer to Improve Inventory Efficiency. When Machine Learning Meets Optimization (Phase 2)
The objective of this project is to take the learnings from the optimization model in Phase one (completed last year) and continue to improve upon the logic to involve more parameters and data points as well as expand the scope to include Online Consumer demand and transfers back to regional distribution centers to support that demand. This project will enable students to apply their skills in a very challenging and critical area in the field of supply chain analytics.

Practicum Prep: Former Charles Schwab Chief Analytics Officer Joins UC Davis
John Carter prepares MSBA students for practicum project success
Student Wenbo Wang catches up with John Carter, who brings 35 years of corporate leadership in data analytics to the MSBA program team, to learn more about his class to prep students for team consulting projects for corporate clients.

Setting Sail in the MSBA with a Practicum Booster and Davis Day
Starting our journey at UC Davis, meeting the dean, touring campus
Onboarding for our MSBA cohort featured a tour of the UC Davis campus, essential preparation for our client projects, and meeting the community.

Meet Our Director of MSBA Analytics Projects
An introduction to everything involved with the year-long practicum project
“Don’t focus solely on the ‘what’ you’ll be learning, but think about the ‘who’. These classmates will become vital resources one day,” says Carrie Beam, director of MSBA analytic projects.


MSBA Students Team Up on California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute's Practicum Project
'It was a great opportunity to partner with scientists'
A team of five students in the UC Davis MSBA Class of 2022 engaged with the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) on its Cancer Avatar Project.

MSBA Alumnus Embarks on a New Journey as a Research Scientist at Meta
It’s the people that make the UC Davis experience unique
Recent MSBA graduate Ethan Meng pivoted from accounting to data analytics and discovered a new career path.

Landing a Job at Pinterest: Reflections from an MSBA Graduate
“I learned to think like a data scientist”
MSBA 2022 alumna Yuntong “Lily” Xiao reflects on her journey to Pinterest and how she prepared for the recruiting process.

How MSBA Students Are Driving Value for Client Firms
How my practicum project set me up for success
“Our work as students results in big changes for our partners and the opportunity to expand our technical knowledge and gain real-world experience.”

Game On: Applying Data Analytics to Exploding Field of Esports
MSBA practicum project reveals lessons in product management
M.S. in Business Analytics student Keshore Suryanarayanan details how his team’s practicum project transformed his idea of data products and their significance.

From MSBA to Meta: Alumna Luga Lu’s Journey
“Never be frustrated and always be positive.”
Current MSBA student Ethan Meng asked 2021 alumna Luga Lu a handful of questions about the MSBA program, life after graduation and her new career at Meta.