Sabah Sadiq

Sadiq Wins Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) 2011 degree candidate Sabah Sadiq, who garnered the best contributed paper award in the Operations Research section at SAS Global Forum this week. Sabah traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, to present the paper, which is titled The Final Frontier: A SAS® Approach to Data Envelopment Analysis. Upon graduation, Sabah will join Deloitte as a consultant. Also presenting a paper at SGF was MSA Class of 2008 alumnus, David Dobson. David’s paper is titled Understanding Drivers of Achieving Academic Success in University Students.

Benchmarking MSA Student Outcomes

The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) is not designed to emulate the MBA education. However, data collected as part of the national ranking of MBA programs offer an opportunity to compare MSA student outcomes relative to the widely taught graduate degree in business. Using data from the annual ranking of business schools by U.S. News and World Report, an assessment was conducted to determine where in the ranking the MSA might land based on three criteria: the admissions acceptance rate, base starting salaries, and placement rate by graduation. The cost of both resident and non-resident tuition (which covers 2 years for the MBA), is also compared. Continue reading “Benchmarking MSA Student Outcomes”