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Great Lakes PGP Babi Brochure PDF
Great Lakes PGP Babi Brochure PDF
Around
50% of data scientists & business
analysts have a master’s degree
2,00,000 ANALYTICS
data analytics professionals 28.8% CAGR
IT
Indian Analytics Industry 8.6% CAGR
is growing rapidly at at 28.8% CAGR
as compared to the IT sector which is
growing at 8.6% annually
Padma Shri
Dr. Bala V. Balachandran
J L Kellogg Distinguished
Professor (Emeritus in
Service) of Accounting and
Information Management,
Northwestern University,
Illinois, USA
This program has been ranked No.1 by Analytics India Magazine and
No. 2 by Analytics Vidhya.
International Collaboration
The program is internationally recognized and is a dual certificate
program. The participants will get certification from Stuart School of
Business, IIT Chicago and also Great Lakes Institute of Management.
Blended Learning
The program creates a blended learning environment that causes
minimal disruption to work schedule. The classroom sessions are
followed up by online learning that keep your learning continuous,
self-paced and cumulative.
Hands On Exposure
An integral part of the learning experience is the use of Analytics tools
wherein the candidates get hands-on exposure to R, Tableau, SAS
(online) and Python (online).
Corporate Partners
The program is designed, delivered and endorsed by leading
analytical, technology and consulting organizations. Our corporate
partners are involved in curriculum design, facilitating projects,
industry lectures and also suggesting pedagogical improvements.
PROGRAM
PEDAGOGY
Classroom Learning
The program consists of 240 hours of classroom sessions delivered by Great
Lakes faculty and industry professionals from the field of analytics. This
ensures that the program imbibes Great Lakes’ academic elegance and
Industry’s Business relevance, thereby providing the candidates with a
remarkable learning experience.
Experiential Learning
This program is designed to transform candidates to business-ready analytics
professionals through hands-on experiential learning on relevant tools. This is
achieved through an experiential learning format wherein participants
practise exercises and assignments on software packages such as R, Tableau,
SAS (online) and Python (online).
Capstone Project
All candidates would be pursuing an application oriented capstone project in
the field of Business Analytics. The project shall be mentored and evaluated
by faculty from Great Lakes or Industry. The project will be presented to the
faculty board as part of the requirement for successful completion of the
program.
Program Format
This program has about 440 hours of learning comprising 240 hours of
classroom learning and 200 hours of online/ off classroom. The calendar is
designed such that most classes are conducted on weekends and public
holidays, thereby causing minimal disruption to work schedule.
PROGRAM ANALYTICS TECHNIQUES
CURRICULUM
Advanced Statistics
Analysis of Variance
Regression Analysis
Dimension Reduction Techniques
FOUNDATIONS
Data Mining
Introduction to Analytics Introduction to Supervised and
Unsupervised learning
Introduction to Business Analytics
Clustering
R for Data Science
Decision Trees
Introduction to R and R Studio
Random Forest
Dealing with Data using R
Neural Networks
Visualization using R
Statistical Methods
for Decision Making Predictive Modeling
Multiple Linear Regression(MLR) for
Descriptive Statistics Predictive Analytics
Introduction to Probability Logistic Regression
Probability Distributions Linear Discriminant Analysis
Hypothesis testing and estimation
Goodness of Fit
DOMAIN EXPOSURE
Experiential Learning
Capstone Project | Case Studies | Assignments
A distinguishing feature of the pedagogy is the invaluable insights and exposure that participants
get from leading practitioners and senior industry executives. Organizations from which experts
have contributed to our lectures, projects and case studies include:
CAPSTONE
PROJECTS
7
Domain: Banking
Techniques Used: Linear Discriminant Prediction of user’s mood using
Analysis, Logistic Regression, Neural smartphone data
Network, Boosting, Random Forest, CART Domain: Healthcare
Techniques Used: Logistic Regression,
Random Tree, ADA Boost, Random Forest,
8
Techniques Used: Market Basket Analysis, Customer engagement and brand
Brand Loyalty Analysis perception of Indian ecommerce -
A social media approach
9
Latent Dirichlet Allocation. K-Means & Start-up insights through data
Hierarchical Clustering
analysis
Domain: Entrepreneurship/ Start Ups
*This is an indicative list and mentions only some of the projects pursued by PGP-BABI candidates. Please note that the list of the projects may
vary from batch to batch.
FACULTY
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The Structure of the PGP-BABI program is very interesting, in
which learning happens both inside and outside the classroom.
MBA/PGDM/PGDBM/
25% PGDBA
15% B.Com/BBA/BSc
8% M.Sc/MS
2% M.E./M.Tech
1%
14% 42%
35 35
1% 30
3% 25 23
Pharmaceutical/ Healthcare 5
12% 14%
Power & Energy
Others 0 2-5 5-8 8-12 12-15 15+
Media
(years)
The PGP-BABI class comes from some of the leading organizations. Some of their current
employees include:
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STUDENTS’
SPEAK
“The choice of Great Learning program over several others was a simple decision as this program
allowed a blend of practical industry exposure and real life capstone project interspersed with
domain knowledge through eminent faculty members and industry guests alike. Moreover,
assignment led assessment approach and a very robust LMS provided was thoroughly a
rewarding experience.”
- Amit Madan
Country Manager
Trans Technology India
“PGP-BABI is a very targeted and focused course for professionals wanting to breakthrough in
the analytics domain. The course is well structured with respect to content and is backed by
great faculty and thus providing a solid platform to foray into the analytics domain.”
- Karan Seghal
Associate Vice President
Copal Partners
“I finally chose GL, being a blend of industry expertise and highly experienced teaching faculty.
It’s a reputed brand in the management space with a focus on practical and tie-ups with many
analytical firms. I did a compact yet quite powerful one-year course in Data Analytics. Of course,
placement assistance during and after course completion helped many candidates.”
- Vilas Wakale
Independent Consultant
Ministry of Home Affairs (Analytics Project)
“Capstone project during the program was a great learning experience and helped me
immensely during my statistical modeling projects.”
- Vishranth
Senior Business Analyst
Fractal Analytics
ADMISSION
DETAILS Eligibility
Applicants should have Bachelor’s Degree in
any discipline with a minimum of 50% aggregate
marks in graduation or equivalent and a
minimum of two years full-time post
qualification work experience.
Learning
Fees Inclusions Material
Lunch Tuition Fee LMS Access
Process
1 2 3
The faculty panel will review The shortlisted candidates will The admissions will be
all the applications and then be going through an conducted on a rolling basis and
shortlist candidates based automated telephonic interview the admission process shall be
on their profiles. round which will then be closed once the requisite number
reviewed by a faculty panel. of candidates have taken
admission into the program.
PROGRAM
PARTNERS
Great Lakes is India’s leading business school with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon.
Led by exceptional faculty and steered by an outstanding advisory council, Great Lakes
is ranked amongst India's top 10 business schools and is ranked as the best in the country
when it comes to learning analytics. Learning Analytics from Great Lakes ensures you
get the industry credibility and acceptance as you look to build your career.
Stuart School of Business at IIT Chicago is one the leading business schools in US and is
ranked within the top business schools globally by Financial Times and Princeton Review.
The executive programs at Stuart School of Business and Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT Chicago) are ranked amongst the best in the country. The focus of executive
education at Stuart School of Business, IIT Chicago has always been multi-disciplinary
and at the convergence of disruptive business trends with emerging technology.
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PGP-BABI Contact
+91 87506 48238 pgpbabi@greatlearning.in