MGSC 2301 — Business Statistics
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ADusually offered: fall, spring, summerBostonLondonOakland, CAOnlineOnlineStudy AbroadTraditional
Offers students an opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to collect, summarize, analyze, and interpret business-related data. Covers descriptive statistics, sampling and sampling distributions, statistical inference, relationships between variables, formulating and testing hypotheses, and regression analysis in the context of business. Use of the SPSS statistical programming package is an integral part of the course.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer B 2023 | 1 | 21 | 30 | 70% | 9.0 |
| Fall 2023 | 33 | 637 | 675 | 94% | 1.2 |
| Spring 2024 | 21 | 733 | 736 | 100% | 0.1 |
| Summer A 2024 | 3 | 70 | 90 | 78% | 6.7 |
| Summer B 2024 | 3 | 57 | 85 | 67% | 9.3 |
| Fall 2024 | 24 | 727 | 765 | 95% | 1.6 |
| Spring 2025 | 23 | 730 | 793 | 92% | 2.7 |
| Summer A 2025 | 4 | 112 | 130 | 86% | 4.5 |
| Summer B 2025 | 3 | 78 | 95 | 82% | 5.7 |
| Fall 2025 | 30 | 950 | 1035 | 92% | 2.8 |
| Spring 2026 | 23 | 710 | 806 | 88% | 4.2 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 41% · T 35% · W 41% · Th 42% · F 29%
Common patterns: MWR (29% of sections), TF (24% of sections), T (10% of sections), async (9% of sections), R (8% of sections), MW (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Demetra Paparounas (15% of students) · reviews
- Denise Spencer (11% of students) · reviews
- James Thelusma (10% of students) · reviews
- Nizar Zaarour (10% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Demetra Paparounas (14% of students) · reviews
- Denise Spencer (13% of students) · reviews
- Xiaoping Liu (11% of students) · reviews
- Nizar Zaarour (10% of students) · reviews
Summer A
- Denise Spencer (36% of students) · reviews
- Nizar Zaarour (32% of students) · reviews
- Demetra Paparounas (17% of students) · reviews
- James Thelusma (15% of students) · reviews
Summer B
- Bhawesh Sah (55% of students) · reviews
- Denise Spencer (22% of students) · reviews
- Demetra Paparounas (22% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Unlocks
CS 3250, CS 4350, ECON 2560, ECON 3291, ECON 3410, ECON 3413, ECON 3416, ECON 4640, ECON 4681, ECON 4692, ECON 4970, EECE 5644, HSCI 4684, IE 3500, MISM 3202, MISM 3515, MISM 3525, MISM 4501, MKTG 3401, MKTG 3601, PHTH 4202, PSYC 4600, PSYC 4604, PSYC 4606, PSYC 4610, PSYC 4612, PSYC 4614, PSYC 4616, PSYC 4622, PSYC 4624, PSYC 4626, PSYC 4628, PSYC 4632, PSYC 4656, PSYC 4658, PSYC 4660, PSYC 4662, PSYC 4664, PSYC 4666, PSYC 4668, PSYC 4674, PSYC 4676, PSYC 4678, PSYC 4682, PSYC 4684
Courses that list MGSC 2301 in their prerequisites.
Links
Official catalog (MGSC course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All MGSC courses · Plan it at numap.app