Master of Science in Business Analytics

Batterman School of Business and Haab School of Business Mission

The Batterman School of Business emboldens a global network of transformational and collaborative Christian leaders, dedicated faculty, entrepreneurial students, and active alumni who come together to create maximum social impact through ethical practice, innovation and service.

Program Mission Statement

The Master of Science in Business Analytics program will prepare business professionals to effectively analyze business data and successfully present information to inform strategic decision-making. The curriculum requires students to evaluate the value of business analytics and the ethical use of data through a Christian lens and consider bias/fairness issues when analyzing data for real-world applications.

Program Overview

This program focuses on applied business analytics, rather than a purely data analytics focus. The addition of concentrations allows students to apply analytics concepts to their chosen area of expertise. This will culminate in the final capstone course where students will work on a large analytics project in their area of expertise. This program is different than our undergraduate program, in that there is less of a focus on programming, coding, and database applications (those are covered in one overview course in the graduate program instead of several in depth courses in the undergraduate program) and more of a focus on applying the analytics skills to business decisions. This program is geared towards the ‘front end’ users of data, rather than the ‘back end’ collectors of the data.

Program Prerequisites

Students may enter the program with any bachelor's degree. However, applicants who have a bachelor's degree in an area outside of business-related fields will be required to take BUS 5005 Business Foundations (3 credits) as a program prerequisite. International students are also required to take BUS 5000 - Graduate School Success as a program prerequisite.

Program Learning Outcomes

By fulfilling all of the course requirements for the Master's of Science in Business Analytics, students will be able to:

Evaluate the value of business analytics and the ethical use of data through a Christian lens;
Consider bias/fairness issues when analyzing data for real-world applications in the digital economy;
Integrate information from their selected concentration into data analysis projects;
Use statistical inference concepts and the visualization of data to defend interpretations and conclusions;
Apply the Business Analytics framework (OSEMIn) for Obtaining, Scrubbing, Exploring, Modeling and Interpreting data to answer business questions;
Create presentations that articulate assumptions, analyses, and interpretations of data in a written and oral presentation;
Analyze data using relevant software and techniques.

Master of Science in Business Analytics Curriculum

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
MSBA Foundation Courses		21
BUS 6300	Management Information Systems
BUS 5130	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making
BUAN 5000	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics
BUAN 4850	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization
BUAN 4900	Analytics and the Digital Economy
BUS 9102	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project
Concentrations (Choose one)
Artificial Intelligence (Select 9 credits. Must include CSC 5010)		9
BUS 6340	Artificial Intelligence in Business
BUS 6350	Creating Business Value with AI
CSC 5010	AI Ethics and Vocation ((required))
CSC 5015	Applied Artificial Intelligence
CSC 6240	Data Acquisition and Management
CSC 6260	Natural Language Processing
Finance & Accounting (Select 9 credits. Must include ACCT 5500.)		9
ACCT 5300	Excel Based Decisions in Managerial Accounting
ACCT 5500	Accounting Data Analytics
BUS 5700	Corporate Finance
BUS 5120	Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth
BUS 5730	Securities Analysis
Information Systems (Select 9 credits. Must include BUS 6340.)		9
BUS 6340	Artificial Intelligence in Business
BUS 6310	Data Communications and Networking
BUS 6320	Systems Analysis and Design
BUS 6330	IT Governance and Cybersecurity
Management (Select 9 credits. Must include BUS 6520.)		9
BUS 7050	Project Management
BUS 6510	Global Production and Operations
BUS 7060	Introduction to Six Sigma
BUS 6500	Introduction to Lean
BUS 6520	Management Science and Analytics
Human Resources (Select 9 credits. Must include BUS 5930.)		9
BUS 5110	People-Focused Management
BUS 5900	Human Resource Management and Administration
BUS 5910	Training and Development
BUS 5920	Risk Management
BUS 5930	Human Capital Analytics
Total Credits		30

Plan

These plans assume a Fall, odd-year program start.

Course Options and Schedule are Subject to Change:

BUS 5000 and/or BUS 5005 may be waived depending on undergraduate background
BUAN 5000 must be taken before BUAN 4850
BUS 6300 must be taken before BUAN 4900
BUAN 4950 must be taken last
The Course Schedule provides modality details on course sections

Artificial Intelligence

Plan of Study Grid
Semester 1		Hours
BUS 5000 or BUS 5005 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Graduate School Success (8-Week Session I) or Business Foundations for Administrative Professions or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUS 5005 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Business Foundations for Administrative Professions (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
	Hours	6
Semester 2
BUAN 5000 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUS 6300 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6350 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Management Information Systems (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Creating Business Value with AI or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
	Hours	6
Semester 3
BUAN 4900 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Analytics and the Digital Economy (8-Week Session I) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUAN 4850 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6350 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization (8-Week Session II) or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Creating Business Value with AI or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
	Hours	6
Semester 4
BUS 5130 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUS 9102 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
	Hours	6
Semester 5
CSC 5010 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 6340 or BUS 6350 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	AI Ethics and Vocation (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Creating Business Value with AI or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Creating Business Value with AI (8-Week Session II) or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
	Hours	6
Semester 6
BUS 6340 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 6350 or BUS 9102 or CSC 5010 or CSC 5015 or CSC 6240 or CSC 6260	Artificial Intelligence in Business or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Creating Business Value with AI or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics or AI Ethics and Vocation or Applied Artificial Intelligence or Data Acquisition and Management or Natural Language Processing	3
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project (8-Week Session II)	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	36

Finance & Accounting

Plan of Study Grid
Semester 1		Hours
BUS 5000 or BUS 5005 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5700 or BUS 6300 or BUS 9102	Graduate School Success (8-Week Session I) or Business Foundations for Administrative Professions or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Corporate Finance or Management Information Systems or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 5005 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300	Business Foundations for Administrative Professions (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems	3
	Hours	6
Semester 2
BUAN 5000 or ACCT 5300 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 9102	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Excel Based Decisions in Managerial Accounting or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 6300 or ACCT 5500 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5700	Management Information Systems (8-Week Session II) or Accounting Data Analytics or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Corporate Finance	3
	Hours	6
Semester 3
BUAN 4900 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 9102	Analytics and the Digital Economy (8-Week Session I) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4850 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization (8-Week Session II) or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making	3
	Hours	6
Semester 4
BUS 5130 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5120 or BUS 6300 or BUS 9102	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Management Information Systems or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 9102 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems	3
	Hours	6
Semester 5
ACCT 5300 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5120 or BUS 5130	Excel Based Decisions in Managerial Accounting (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making	3
ACCT 5500 or BUS 5700 or BUS 9102	Accounting Data Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Corporate Finance or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
	Hours	6
Semester 6
BUS 5120 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5730 or BUS 9102	Financial Analyses to Drive Business Growth (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Securities Analysis or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project (8-Week Session II)	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	36

Human Resources

Plan of Study Grid
Semester 1		Hours
BUS 5000 or BUS 5005 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5900 or BUS 6300 or BUS 9102	Graduate School Success (8-Week Session I) or Business Foundations for Administrative Professions or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Human Resource Management and Administration or Management Information Systems or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 5005 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5930 or BUS 6300	Business Foundations for Administrative Professions (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Human Capital Analytics or Management Information Systems	3
	Hours	6
Semester 2
BUAN 5000 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5910 or BUS 9102	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Training and Development or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 6300 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5920	Management Information Systems (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Risk Management	3
	Hours	6
Semester 3
BUAN 4900 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 5900 or BUS 9102	Analytics and the Digital Economy (8-Week Session I) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Human Resource Management and Administration or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4850 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization (8-Week Session II) or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making	3
	Hours	6
Semester 4
BUS 5130 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5930 or BUS 6300 or BUS 9102	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or People-Focused Management or Human Capital Analytics or Management Information Systems or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 9102 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems	3
	Hours	6
Semester 5
BUS 5910 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5130	Training and Development (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or People-Focused Management or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making	3
BUS 5930 or BUS 5110 or BUS 5900 or BUS 9102	Human Capital Analytics (8-Week Session II) or People-Focused Management or Human Resource Management and Administration or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
	Hours	6
Semester 6
BUS 5110 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5920 or BUS 9102	People-Focused Management (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Risk Management or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project (8-Week Session II)	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	36

Information Systems

Plan of Study Grid
Semester 1		Hours
BUS 5000 or BUS 5005 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6310 or BUS 6330 or BUS 6340 or BUS 9102	Graduate School Success (8-Week Session I) or Business Foundations for Administrative Professions or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Data Communications and Networking or IT Governance and Cybersecurity or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 5005 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6340	Business Foundations for Administrative Professions (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Artificial Intelligence in Business	3
	Hours	6
Semester 2
BUAN 5000 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6310 or BUS 6320 or BUS 6340 or BUS 9102	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Data Communications and Networking or Systems Analysis and Design or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 6300 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6310	Management Information Systems (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Data Communications and Networking	3
	Hours	6
Semester 3
BUAN 4900 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6330 or BUS 6340 or BUS 9102	Analytics and the Digital Economy (8-Week Session I) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or IT Governance and Cybersecurity or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4850 or BUS 5130	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization (8-Week Session II) or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making	3
	Hours	6
Semester 4
BUS 5130 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6330 or BUS 6340 or BUS 9102	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Management Information Systems or IT Governance and Cybersecurity or Artificial Intelligence in Business or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 9102 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6310 or BUS 6340	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Data Communications and Networking or Artificial Intelligence in Business	3
	Hours	6
Semester 5
BUS 6320 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6340	Systems Analysis and Design (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Artificial Intelligence in Business	3
BUS 6330 or BUS 6320 or BUS 9102	IT Governance and Cybersecurity (8-Week Session II) or Systems Analysis and Design or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
	Hours	6
Semester 6
BUS 6340 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 9102	Artificial Intelligence in Business (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project (8-Week Session II)	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	36

Management

Plan of Study Grid
Semester 1		Hours
BUS 5000 or BUS 5005 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 9102	Graduate School Success (8-Week Session I) or Business Foundations for Administrative Professions or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 5005 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6000 or BUS 6500	Business Foundations for Administrative Professions (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Strategic Innovation or Introduction to Lean	3
	Hours	6
Semester 2
BUAN 5000 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 7050 or BUS 9102	Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Project Management or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 6300 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6520 or BUS 7060	Management Information Systems (8-Week Session II) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Science and Analytics or Introduction to Six Sigma	3
	Hours	6
Semester 3
BUAN 4900 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 9102	Analytics and the Digital Economy (8-Week Session I) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUAN 4850 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6520 or BUS 7050	Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization (8-Week Session II) or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Science and Analytics or Project Management	3
	Hours	6
Semester 4
BUS 5130 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6510 or BUS 9102	Mastering Analytics and Decision Making (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Management Information Systems or Global Production and Operations or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
BUS 7060 or BUAN 5000 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6300 or BUS 6500 or BUS 9102	Introduction to Six Sigma (8-Week Session II) or Introduction to Coding, Programming, and Databases for Analytics or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Management Information Systems or Introduction to Lean or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
	Hours	6
Semester 5
BUS 7050 or BUAN 4850 or BUAN 4900 or BUS 5130 or BUS 6000	Project Management (8-Week Session I) or Business Data Analytics Programming with Visualization or Analytics and the Digital Economy or Mastering Analytics and Decision Making or Strategic Innovation	3
BUS 6520 or BUS 7060 or BUS 9102	Management Science and Analytics (8-Week Session II) or Introduction to Six Sigma or Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics	3
	Hours	6
Semester 6
BUS 9102 or BUAN 4900	Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (8-Week Session I) or Analytics and the Digital Economy	3
BUAN 4950	Data Analytics: Integrative Project (8-Week Session II)	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	36

Course options and schedule are subject to change.