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Department: Data Sciences and Operations

  • Data Sciences and Operations

    Data Sciences and Operations

    The Department of Data Sciences and Operations (DSO) provides students with quantitative and analytic skills needed to excel in today's data-driven business world.

    The expertise of the over 40 faculty members in the DSO Department at Marshall spans three main disciplines: information systems, operations management, and statistics.

DEGREES + COURSES

RESEARCH

FACULTY

FULL-TIME FACULTY

PhD STUDENTS

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

CURRENT COURSES

Below is a selection of current courses taught by the department. For a complete listing of current courses please see the USC SCHEDULE OF CLASSES.

  • BUAD-112
    AI for Business Freshman Academy
    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Business, both in curriculum and resources, and access to industry professionals. (Graded CR/NC)
  • BUAD-310
    Applied Business Statistics
    Statistical methods for business analysis; data exploration and description; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression; model building. Extensive computer applications. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 312 and the former ITP 251.)
  • BUAD-311
    Operations Management
    Fundamentals of operations management. Skills needed to analyze, manage, and improve business processes. Topics include: process, capacity, service, and inventory management and optimization. (Duplicates credit in BUAD 313 and BUAD 315x.)

STAY CONNECTED

  • CONTACT 

    Marshall School of Business
    Department of Data Sciences and Operations (DSO)
    Bridge Hall 308
    Los Angeles, CA 90089-0809
    Phone: 213-740-0172
    EMAIL

  • RESOURCES

    Current faculty can access DSO department materials from My.Marshall, please visit HERE (login required).

    Students interested in positions with the DSO department, please fill out the DSO Student Worker Application FORM