We are now living in the big data era. After those years’ systematical study in the major of Finance at the Oregon State University, a world-famous public research university in US with an emphasis on pushing students to the very edge of what’s known and forging students’ problem-solving ability and creativity , I gradually realized that based on the effective business analytics, the rapid expansion of the financial model is no doubt to provide us the effective solutions to handle the various issues, including financial predication, capital management, financial investment, etc., whose core is the data mining and data analysis. Therefore, I decidedly chose to pursue a master’s degree in MSc Business Analytics at this stage of my life to further improve my ability of understanding data, deriving useful information and making the effective business decision with use of the quantitative tools.

To be honest, there is a huge talent gap of business analyst in the current employment market in the global context. In China, the major of Business analytics does not belong to the traditional teaching plan and there is no specific university to open such advanced subject. While in the United States, business analytics, as an emerging subject, goes with the development trend of the age of big data, which perfectly matches my research interests and career goal. Particularly my proficiency in statistics, mathematical modeling as well as computer-based techniques all can be given full play and are perfectly unified in the financial practice. Meanwhile, as I have already familiar with the teaching plan and open academic environments in the United States, I can adapt myself quickly to your learning and living environments and spare no pains to pursue my life-long dream of being an excellent financial analyst someday.

In fact, more than four years’ unremitting endeavors in learning finance opens a new door for me through which I can see far in the financial data world. On one hand, through the professional learning in fundamental financial and mathematical-based courses, my mathematical computing capacity, statistical analysis ability, and comprehensive expression ability have been greatly enhanced. For example, the ECON 202 focuses on teaching me how use the macroeconomic models to forecast the business activities and make the better and effective economic policy fully considering the requirements of the governments.

Another courses, like Statistics and Financial Investment showed me the basic financial theories and statistical skills by conducing more action-based research cases. Through the various professional courses, I deeply felt the significance of making extensive use of business data, statistical tools as well as quantitative methods to make the optimal financial investment, which brought me much more inspirations to apply to your MSc Business Analytics now.

On the other hand, I have also accumulated the good networking, data sensitivities as well as academic research capability. In Jan. 2017, teaming with other students, I successfully completed my entrepreneurship final project to design and create a website to help college students find roommates. I was mainly responsible for analyzed and made goals for marketing pricing and designing 3-year profit and loss plan for our business. It is the first time that I have begun to realize that with the continuous and interactive exploration and investigation of data, business analysts can exactly predict the changes and development of business patterns and make the effective business strategies.

Later, I successively completed the statistics final project and marketing final project, which not only practiced my excellent data analytic ability, data collection and problem-solving ability, but also made me pay full attentions to the variation of the customers’ behaviors so as to make the better business plan.  Therefore, I firmly believes both my solid academic foundation and my strong research ability can become my big advantages to compete with other candidates.

Besides, as a goal-oriented person with full of passion towards data analysis and financial modeling, I have participated in a series of internships in the past years and have greatly improved my hands-on ability. For example, I once interned as the Quantitative Assistant intern in the China Everbrig Bank, I excellently completed the Shanxi Investment Group Capital Increase project and made an evaluation of the risk assessment.

In another project titled City Village of Taiyuan Renewal project, my tasks in relation to budget plan and demolition plan won the higher comments from my boss, which brought me a strong sense of achievement. Later, in Bank of Communications, I have immersed myself into the financial data analysis and modeling for several weeks and realized the great breakthrough. Through those experiences, I have more confidence to apply for your MSs Business Analytics.

Upon graduation, I plan to enter a top-ten investment banks and apply for a financial analyst’s position. I will make full use of what I have learned and join in more real-world business. Your university can bring me more employment opportunities, agreeable climate that is suitable for study and living, and strong academic atmosphere full of the business elites and skillful financial experts, which perfectly suits my career dream and research interests.