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Great! Thanks for the input!!

So I know this forum is for statistics, but it's the closest thing to analytics, so I'm posting here. I recently got accepted by U of San Francisco and UT McCombs, for Analytics and Business Analytics respectively. U of San Francisco is in the city that I want to live eventually, and the courses seem a little more technical (including noSQL, machine learning etc). For someone like me who's trying to switch field from business to data analysis, I thought more technical classes may be good (curriculum here: http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/msan/courses/). The program at UT Mccombs has slightly more business classes, but the school is more reputable (here's the curriculum http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Business-Analytics/Curriculum). How important is the grad school name? Could people shed some light on which you'd prefer?

Thanks for the help! Yeah I've seen MBAs with stat track, or masters in business analytic, but I'm still leaning towards a more traditional stat program a math or engineering department can offer. Good luck with your application!

also I'm looking at masters in statistics, not phD, at least not at this time

So I graduated a year ago with B.S. in Business Administration, but discovered I really like math and stat (a little late, I know), so I'm trying to go back to grad school and change field to statistics, with a focus on either finance, or data science. Below is my profile, realistically, where do you think I have a chance of getting in? What can I do improve my profile? B.S. in business from a REALLY small liberal arts college in the south, it's ranked well regionally, but may not be known nationally Had AP for Cal I and II, and Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, so I was placed out of all the econ and math classes in college standard finance courses a business major would take in college, and one stat course Just took Cal III and Linear Algebra, both As currently taking Java programming and a calc-based probability, expecting to get As in both GPA in college: 3.692/4.0. also I took a lot of classes at once so graduated in three years Had one internship with a big financial services and info corporation, did some financial and data analytic work there Currently at a manager position but in something not very related, have some analytic work, but not much GRE: 166 Q, 161 V, 4.5 essay Thank you in advance for the advice!