Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 30
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Program of Study
The program requires 30 semester hours and consists of seven core courses and three elective courses. Foundation knowledge areas may be required depending on student credentials at the time of admittance. Foundation knowledge areas do not count towards graduation for the MS MIS degree. Students in the program must maintain a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in all graduate courses. No credit is allowed toward degree completion for courses in which a grade below C (2.0) is earned.
Program Foundation Knowledge Areas
Students entering the program will need the background based on completed academic coursework in the past seven years as detailed below. Students lacking foundational coursework will be required to complete self-paced, asynchronous online modules in their first semester. For students requiring additional foundation in English language proficiency, an additional course may be required. The program foundation modules do not count towards completion of the MS in MIS.
Proficiency in:
- English language and writing skills
- Hardware and systems software
- Programming logic and language: C++, Visual Basic, Java, Python, or R
- Financial accounting
At the time of admission, the MS MIS Graduate Program Director will identify any required program foundation requirements. The required modules will be assigned, and students are expected to satisfy all assigned foundation modules in their first semester.
Management and Information Systems Core (21 hours)
- (3) CMIS 526 Information Systems and Technology
- (3) CMIS 538 Managing the Cloud
- (3) CMIS 540 Project Management Fundamentals and Best Practices
- (3) CMIS 564 Database Design
- (3) CMIS 570 Software Systems Design
- (3) MBA 521 Quantitative Analysis
- (3) CMIS 580 MIS Capstone
Elective Courses (9 hours)
Elective courses enable students to add a specialized focus to their study of information systems. Examples of specialized focuses include, but are not limited to:
- Project Management
- Business Analytics
- Systems Design, Development and Implementation
- Database Administration and Database Programming
- Enterprise-Wide Information Systems (ERP)
A formal project management specialization may be completed by selecting electives that fulfill requirements for the specialization. A formal business analytics specialization may be completed by selecting electives that fulfill requirements for the specialization.
The MS MIS program director maintains the current list of approved electives. Students must submit a written request to the MS MIS program director for approval to deviate from the approved elective list.
Students not possessing prior professional work experience within the information systems field will be encouraged to select CMIS 587 Information Systems Internship as one of their electives. This is to ensure that students not possessing prior work experience are afforded the opportunity to practice learned skills in a supervised information technology environment prior to degree completion.
