Earn A Business Degree To Become A Business Intelligence Analyst

Like many top jobs these days, education doesn't stop with a four year degree. Business Intelligence is a cross-disciplinary field. To be fully functional in the field does involve learning on the job and then going on for further education, usually through online courses (or a night school if available) as part of business degree programs, to fill the advanced specifications the job requires, such as data integration, data quality, data warehousing, master data management, text and content analytics, and many others that the market sometimes lumps into the Information Management segment. As said before, this form of intelligence covers an incredible number of industries, with their own unique requirements.

Entry level positions usually begin at about $40,000 a year, with a full benefit package. For obvious reasons, a student should look to see if the package includes continuing education benefits, because this is the type of job where learning never really stops. A fully experience analyst makes anywhere from $80,000 to $110,000 a year.