Data Science and Business Analytics is an online MBA program offered by NMIMS Mumbai. It is an 18 month-long program. I have a few friends who are pursuin this course. Their experience with the program has been quite good. The course is delivered mainly in two parts, i.e. learning videos on the platform and live sessions conducted by the professor during the weekend. The classes cover a wide range of topics. The live sessions featuring many reputed faculties and industry experts help in solving doubts. The program offers both management subjects and technical subjects like Machine learning and other Data Science related tools like Python, SQL, etc. 

The evaluation is done through Internal Assessment/Case Study and a term-end examination for each course in the program. This course is great if you want to gain skills and knowledge in the field of AIML. 

My answer is based on my sister’s comparison therefore is brutally honest and objective. Some people might still be praising the Business Analytics course but trust me it’s their see efforts to increase its market value only.

I personally am here to convince you against the Business Analytics course. My sister was a student in the same program and even after relentless efforts for 1.5 years, the results were nowhere near expectations. In Fact, she suffered throughout the course and her career was affected a lot in the process. The following points strongly support my opinion and might convince you of the same

Poor quality and substandard faculty who keep changing their rules 

• The topics are covered very vaguely and no in-depth insight is offered. An entire topic is covered in 5 lectures that are technically just 10 hours.
• The assignments are not evaluated properly and you don’t receive any feedback from the professors that might encourage you to do better
• No placement assistance is offered to students in ISB Hyderabad 
• The batch size is ever-increasing and has made ISB Hyderabad a money-marking Institute only.
• You don’t get to choose one area of Analytics that you want to specialize in and have to study irrelevant subjects that might be of no use to you in the future 
• Despite the fees and everything, it’s just a Certificate program and not a degree or diploma
• The Certificate of Business Analytics is not approved by the Government of India and has little value officially 

If you are really keen to pursue your career in Business Analytics, choose one area in analytics you want to specialize in and pursue that specific area only. For instance, you can choose a Big data or Machine Learning course and go through their concepts and look for jobs and internships in that area specifically. This is a faster and much more focused way rather than joining the CBA program.