Master of Information System (MIS) – Washington University of Virginia

MASTER OF INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) PROGRAM

MIS Program is a combined study in Business, Data Analytics, and Computer, which will produce the business workforce who are equipped with technologies and data analytics skills. Technical focus of the MIS program is on the Data Analytics that has becoming more important in the business environment recently. MIS provides application-oriented Data Analytics courses, including Machine Learning, Text Mining, and Artificial Intelligence. Data Analytics courses provide quality lectures and hands-on programming labs to prepare students to be readily inserted into actual work environment. MIS also provides Computer courses to help students in understanding Information Technology infrastructure and Computer programming. With the business and technical study background, MIS graduates will be the highly capable workforce in the business environment.

A draft MIS Program curriculum is as follows. It is under development now and will be finalized by next Spring.

Master of Information System (MIS) Degree Requirements: 48 credits (Major 30, Electives 15, Core 3)
Major Requirements (30)

ACC 502 Financial Accounting
BUS 503 Financial Management
BUS 505 Marketing Management
BUS 507 Strategic Management
BUS 600 Managerial Statistics
MIT(MIS) 531 Database Design
MIT(MCS) 542 Object Oriented Programming
(MIS) 551 Data Mining (Pre: MCS542)
MIT(MIS) 552 Applied Machine Learning (Pre: MCS542)
(MIS) 553 Deep Learning (Pre: MCS542)

Electives (15)

BUS 505 Marketing Management
BUS 714 Digital Marketing
BUS 715 (New) Project Management
MCS 534 (New) Cyber Securities
MIT(MIS) 550 Introduction to Data Science

Prerequisites (12)

MIT(MCS) 540 Principles of Programming Languages
ECO 201 Microeconomics
ECO 202 Macroeconomics
ENG 201 College English II