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MBA candidates who seek out the Leavey School of Business often share a particular set of experiences and objectives. Highly motivated, well educated, and professionally successful up to a point, they’re driven to build careers in Silicon Valley but have stopped progressing toward that goal. Something is missing.
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As with all higher education, getting your MBA is a financial and personal investment — but does the return on investment, or MBA ROI, make it a wise one? Only you can determine the final answer to that question.
Learn how data analytics and big data are driving today's most important business decisions and how you can obtain a career in this in-demand field.
The Master of Business Administration: Long respected as a sign of business acumen, managerial skills, and leadership potential, this advanced degree continues to offer life-changing personal and professional value, immediately and in the long term, to those who earn it.
A decade ago, the Harvard Business Review named Data Scientist as the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Now, with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and the democratization of data, the industry has completely evolved, but this fact hasn’t changed.
For the second consecutive year, the Online MBA program at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business has placed at the very top of Poets&Quants’ annual rankings, holding the #1 spot in the categories of academic experience and career outcomes.
Learn about top jobs for master's in finance and analytics graduates, their average salaries, and the roles and responsibilities of some of these leading positions.
Learn about the most important digital marketing trends in Silicon Valley and other tech centers for 2022, 2023, and beyond.
If you’re interested in furthering your prospects and are researching different career paths, you might not be clear on the differences between the fields of marketing analytics and business analytics. Learn whether becoming a business analyst would be the best fit for you and your career.
Business and financial occupations—which concern the day-to-day duties of running a business or are related to raising or managing money— pay well. Explore SCU’s Online Master of Science in Business Analytics degree and use data to accelerate your business career.
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent and competent, programmers are using the same processes in a popular form of machine learning called reinforcement learning (RL). With this technology, businesses are able to optimize, control, and monitor their workflows with a previously impossible level of accuracy and finesse.
Market research analysts find, gather, and analyze data to help companies monitor, measure, and forecast sales, marketing effectiveness, consumer trends, competitors, and market conditions, as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A new job market outlook report has just been released with some surprising takeaways. ZipRecruiter’s inaugural report—The Class of 2022: The Job Market Outlook for Grads—highlights the market at it currently stands, and delves into specifics of the job hunt for recent graduates.
If you're thinking of joining those ranks, you will probably be taking a graduate school entrance exam. Santa Clara University compiled a list of common graduate school entrance exams for students who are considering furthering their education.
Customer relationship marketing (CRM) focuses on building long-term relationships with customers. Read on to learn more about customer relationship marketing and how you can master it for business success.
For many, climbing the ladder in their industry can lead to management positions, which tend to be financially rewarding and often help to further develop leadership skills. These roles vary across industries—each with unique responsibilities—and those who have a business degree often take career paths that end up in a managerial role.
If you want to work at Google, you’re certainly not alone. In Glassdoor’s 2022 Best Places to Work report, Google ranked in the Top 10. In fact, there was even a movie made about it: The Internship with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. If you have your heart set on getting an internship (and eventually, a permanent position) at Google upon graduation, you’ll have to really stand out from the crowd.
Dean Grier’s wealth of knowledge and perspectives from academia and industry are helping him lead SCU Leavey forward. Take a closer look at the three principles of his leadership magic.
Santa Clara University rounded up 10 of the most popular occupations for people with a bachelor's business degree, including sales, finance, and management.
SCU’s Leavey School of Business is ranked #2 nationwide for employment at the five largest tech companies. The rankings report, published this week by Fortune Education, names leading MBA programs with a significant number of graduates employed at tech giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook.