Global One-Year MBA

Analytics Specialization Track*

Turn data, AI, and business intelligence into better decisions.

AI Built into Your Degree

Complete the AI Lab and earn a Hult Certificate in Applied AI

Study in

Boston or London

Duration

One year | As part of the Global One-Year MBA

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Turn analysis into action

Organizations have more data than ever. The challenge is turning that information into insight people can use.

In the Analytics Track, you’ll build the ability to understand data, ask better business questions, and make evidence-informed decisions. You’ll explore data-driven insights, business intelligence, AI, visualization, and analytical decision-making as part of a broader MBA built around leadership, strategy, and real business challenges.

You’ll also develop the communication and critical-thinking skills needed to explain what the data means, what it doesn’t tell you, and what the business should do next. It’s a practical foundation for experienced professionals ready to accelerate their careers, influence senior decisions, and progress toward C-suite leadership.

Course examples

Data-Driven Insights & AI

Business Intelligence

Applied Economics & Managerial Decision-Making

Financial Management & Decision-Making

Accounting for Managers

The Analytics Track could be a strong fit if you:

Have around 10 years of professional experience and want to use data to influence decisions at a more senior level

Are ready to connect analytical insight with strategy, operations, customers, finance, or transformation

Are targeting a future in business analytics, consulting, business intelligence, product, digital transformation, or executive leadership

Develop a portfolio of applied work

You’ll work through practical challenges, simulations, team projects, and business cases. You may need to assess performance, interpret business intelligence, evaluate a transformation opportunity, or explain a data-informed recommendation to senior stakeholders.

The Hult AI Lab gives you the opportunity to apply AI to analysis, automation, content generation, productivity, and real business challenges. Your capstone challenge connects your learning to a real company brief, helping you turn evidence into a recommendation and communicate what should happen next.

Depending on the project, outputs could include:

Business intelligence dashboard

Data visualization or executive insight report

Performance analysis with recommended actions

Data-informed growth or transformation recommendation

AI-enabled analytics workflow

Executive presentation or boardroom-ready data story

Capstone recommendation for a real company brief

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Make better decisions with data and AI

AI can process information quickly. Leaders still need to decide what matters.

In the Hult AI Lab, you’ll explore how AI and analytical tools can support business analysis, automation, content generation, and productivity. You’ll apply those tools to real challenges while considering the wider business context, the quality of the evidence, and the consequences of acting on an insight.

You’ll also learn to question assumptions, test outputs, and recognize when the evidence is incomplete, biased, or misleading. Complete the AI Lab, and you’ll earn the Hult Certificate in Applied AI alongside your MBA, with a portfolio of applied work that can help you demonstrate how you use data and AI to support better decisions.

A global context

Data is informed by people, markets, and decisions. You’ll study at Hult Boston or Hult London and work with an international cohort made up of different cultures, industries, and professional backgrounds.

Through collaborative projects, city seminars, and Global Campus Rotation opportunities where available, you’ll explore how context affects interpretation and how assumptions differ across markets. That perspective will help you communicate insight in a way people can use and make stronger decisions as a senior leader in a global organization.

Bring analytics to your path

The Analytics Track can help experienced professionals turn data into direction, influence strategic decisions, and lead transformation beyond a single function.

Possible career directions include:

Head of Business Analytics

Business Intelligence Director

Data-Informed Strategy Consultant

Product Analytics Leader

Digital Transformation Leader

Marketing or Customer Insights Leader

Your career path will depend on your previous experience, interests, skills, and the opportunities you pursue. Hult’s Careers team can support you as you define your direction, build your professional profile, and prepare for the recruitment process.

Start your journey

The Analytics Track is part of Hult’s one-year, full-time Global One-Year MBA for experienced professionals. Hult assesses candidates individually based on the strength of their whole profile, including your professional experience, leadership potential, analytical and business skills, career goals, academic background, and personal drive.

Accelerate Your Career

*STEM pathway

The Analytics Track may be designated as a STEM specialization within the Global One-Year MBA. Eligible students who study at a US campus may also qualify for extended post-graduation work authorization when they meet applicable requirements.

Eligibility depends on the final program designation, campus, field of employment, immigration status, and current US regulations.