CMU-Ebiz取消焉知非福，这个专业可能更适合你（一）-新东方前途出国

CMU提供多个计算机硕士学位（MSIT），其中一个专业叫eBusiness Technology，简称Ebiz，招生以非CS背景学生为主。CMU-Ebiz是CMU众多与CS相关的“奇葩”项目之一，该项目耗时一年，只需修三门课，其他时间全部在做项目。一年时间完成16个小项目，全程模拟一个电子商务公司的建设和运营。通过一年高强度的实战训练，毕业生可以在网站建设、数据库设计、搜索引擎优化、数据挖掘等方面积累扎实的知识和经验。

该项目毕业后的出路也非常不错，Oracle公司号称见人就要，更加优秀的学生进入 Google、Facebook之类的梦幻企业，亦或是Uber、Airbnb这样的明星Startups更是比比皆是。

然而就在昨天，有同学收到了CMU的邮件，这个专业被取消了。

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR:

Please see below for a message from Dr. Shamos, Director of the MSIT eBusiness Technology program.   Your application fee will be reimbursed.  If you need access to your application for any reason, please do so before noon today, November 20, 2017.   The application system will be closed after that time.. From 1point 3acres bbs

The School of Computer Science and the Institute for Software Research have decided to discontinue the "MSIT in eBusiness Technology" graduate program as of the end of August 2018, after the graduation of the current class.  The program has been part of the SCS portfolio since 2004, and it has shown growing success in educational accomplishment and in placement of students. There have been changes in the economic environment, however, and the learning-by-doing methodology of the program -- which requires intense faculty involvement, with seventeen faculty members working to deliver the curriculum each year -- is no longer financially viable. The decision was not made lightly in view of the exceptional academic quality of the program, its uniqueness in the world, the caliber of its faculty and staff, and the outstanding characteristics of its current students and nearly 1,000 alumni around the world.  The program will continue in normal fashion through graduation.  No new applications will be accepted.

显然，对于申请2018 Fall的同学们来说，这无疑是个坏消息。CMU-Ebiz的申请难度相对而言不算太大，而且对部分具有商科背景的同学也比较友好，在目前转专业申请CS的学生数量逐年递增，CMU-Ebiz的取消无疑对怀有美国顶尖名校梦的同学们打击颇大，不过正如标题中所说，CMU-Ebiz取消焉知非福，这个专业可能更适合你——Business Analytics (BA)。

Business Analytics是最近几年才涌现出来的一个新兴学科。