Advanced Certificate Course in Data Analytics (Part-Time)

A five-month part-time analytics certificate for working professionals, covering Excel, statistics, regression, forecasting and optimisation models.

NIBM
Next intake: December 2026
LevelCertificate
Duration5 Months
Study modepart-time
CampusColombo

Overview

About this course

Run by the Productivity and Quality Center, this part-time certificate is aimed at business and data analysts and at people who make decisions from numbers. It starts with the kinds of data and how to prepare them in Excel. Topics then move through measures of location, variability and association, data visualisation, probability, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, regression, time series forecasting, spreadsheet models and linear, integer and non-linear optimisation. The fee is LKR 75,000 plus LKR 2,000 for registration. Campuses listed: Colombo Campus and Matara Campus. The page does not state who awards the certificate.

Modules

22 modules
Modules22 modules
Types of Data
Modifying Data in Excel
Creating Distributions from Data
Measures of Location
Measures of Variability
Measures of Association Between Two Variables
Overview of Data Visualization
Tables
Charts
Probability Concepts
Discrete Random Variables
Continuous Random Variable
The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean
Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Regression, Correlation
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Spreadsheet Models
Linear Optimization Models
Integer Linear Optimization Model
Non-Linear Optimization Models

Entry requirements

Academic Entry Requirement

Admission criteria
  • Professionals involved in decision-making who are looking for new ways to solve difficult business problems
  • Or people new to a business analyst or data analyst role who are working on related projects

Fees & scholarships

Local students

LKR 75,000total
Application feeLKR 2,000
Course fee. Subject to change without prior notice.

Facilities

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Key information

Level

certificate

Duration

5 Months ยท part-time

Location

Colombo

Fees

LKR 75,000 ยท Local

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Upcoming intakes

Verified informationOct 19, 2026

Related study areas

Data ScienceComputing

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