BS, Sports Analytics
at California Baptist University

A combination of math and sports, sports analytics is a fun career option for those interested in sports of any kind. In this interdisciplinary program, students develop innovative, analytical skills and mathematical talent as well as computer science proficiency—and will learn how to apply these skills to the world of athletics.Sports, like any other major industry, is looking to gain an advantage through analytics. Part of the upper division coursework includes a partnership with Lancers Athletics, where students work closely with coaches and staff to determine statistics that need to be analyzed for various teams. Additionally, an internship is required pushing students out into the community to gain hands-on experiences.CBU faculty and staff have access to supercomputers located all over the country, and can model, simulate and predict using big sample data that is bootstrapped or resampled thousands of times from these supercomputers. This means that CBU students are trained at the bleeding edge of technology and can use the most advanced software available.