Written by Mike Fitts and published by BizEd
MBA News Digest Comment: The article describes what is happening to the undergraduate curriculum. What does this mean will for the GME curriculum?
Extracted Content: To provide companies with the talent they’ll need to make sense of their data, the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia has significantly expanded the teaching of analytics in its undergraduate core curriculum. This expansion includes required statistics courses at the freshman and sophomore levels, as well as a business analytics concentration. In the spring of 2018, the school also piloted the teaching of R, a widely used opensource computer language, instead of Excel to analyze data in its core statistics courses. R training now has become a mandatory part of the curriculum.