MS in Management Information Systems
Fairfax University of America
Key Information
Campus location
Fairfax, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
USD 6,534 / per semester *
Application deadline
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* tuition fee for 9 credit hours per semester. Additional fees apply
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Introduction
Future leaders and researchers will need to balance the goals of economic success with the constraints of greater social and environmental sustainability and globalization. Graduates learn to close the gap between core business management capability with changing human and information resources and innovative technology while nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset that has always been one of the key characteristics to successful businesses. The master’s program additionally further develops students’ research and critical thinking capabilities to find solutions for business management and technology problems.
Associated Microcredentials
The following microcredentials are offered as part of the program:
- Marketing Analytics: Marketing Measurement Strategy (MA: MMS)
- Market Analytics: Price and Promotion Analytics (MA: P&PA)
- Marketing Analytics: Competitive Analysis and Market Segmentation (MA:CA&MS)
- Marketing Analytics: Product, Distribution and Sales (MA: PD&S)
- Big Data Analytics: From Data to Decision (BDA: DTD)
- Big Data Analytics: Statistical Inference and Machine Learning (BDA: SI&ML)
- Big Data Analytics: Mathematical Modeling (BDA: MM)
- Big Data Analytics: Data Visualization (BDA: DV)
- Survey Data Collection and Analysis: Framework for Data Collection (SDC&A: FDC)
- Survey Data Collection and Analysis: Data Collection Method and Sampling (SDC&A: DCM&S)
- Survey Data Collection and Analysis: Combining and Analyzing Complex Data (SDC&A: C&ACD)
- Value Chain Management: Managerial Accounting (VCMP: MA)
- Value Chain Management: Operation Management (VCM: OM)
- Value Chain Management: Capstone (VCM: CAP)
- Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
- Corporate Entrepreneurship: Crafting Strategy for Innovation (CE: CSI)
- Corporate Entrepreneurship: Financing and Profiting (CE: FP)
- Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building the Business Model (CE: BBM)
- Corporate Entrepreneurship: Developing Opportunities (CE: DO)
Associated Certifications
The following certifications can be earned by graduates of the program through the certifying organizations offering them. Among the certifications that students can meet the minimum requirements for include:
- Certification Competency Business Analyst (CCBA)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Entrepreneurship and small business certification (ESBC)
- Business Process Optimization Certification (BPOC)
Program Outcome
- Demonstrate effective leadership and collaboration skills for making decisions and accomplishing goals that contribute to positive social changes.
- Synthesize and analyze empirical data and integrate it with business knowledge and technological skills to recommend credible and innovative solutions to organizations’ problems.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies, new business ideas, and trends for the development of effective and sustainable organizational policies and strategies.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills to disseminate administrational and operational information across diverse sets of stakeholders.
- Demonstrate ethical business practices in ambiguous or unfamiliar circumstances.
Specialization Outcomes
Business Analytics
- Identify and explain complex business problems in terms of technologically savvy analytical models.
- Utilize big data (both qualitative and quantitative) to analyze business problems and recommend financially and socially feasible decisions to managers.
Business Optimization
- Research, identify, and analyze efficiency and productivity gaps existing among products and services, processes, and resources in business organizations.
- Develop and implement plans for organizations to redefine and strategize for lean operations, asset maximizations, quality control, cost minimization, and building institutional capability.
Entrepreneurship
- Develop business plans and strategies for consulting organizations to manage and develop internal organizational capacities.
- Connect qualitative and quantitative tools, theories, and context to effectively develop and innovate new business opportunities.
Career Opportunities
Graduates from the MSMIS program should be able to provide leadership and research capacity to a variety of business settings. The MSMIS Program develops specialized knowledge for continuing education and growth in all fields of existing and new business ventures. Graduates of the Master of Science in MIS can anticipate the following types of professional careers at the management, director, and executive levels:
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Curriculum
The MSMIS program has 36 credits of required coursework where students engage in and learn the skills and knowledge that all managers need.
Required Courses
All MSMIS program students take four (4) core courses and (8) specialization courses.
- BUSS 501 Descriptive Analysis and Data Visualizations
- BUSS 561 Program Design and Development
- BUSS 582 Quantitative Analysis and Decision Making
- BUSS 601 Operational Analytics
Required Courses for each specialization
Students choose an area and develop specialized knowledge in that area. Additionally, students work toward a capstone project in their specialization, aimed at developing specific career skills that they will use as they continue into their professional trajectory. The following are offered as specializations in this program:
Business Analytics Specialization (8 Courses–24 Credits) Accepting Applications for Fall 2022
This specialization prepares students to become proficient in practical business data analysis and research skills by applying knowledge acquired in classrooms to real-world business problems. Additionally, graduates will be capable of doing applied research on business problems through the application of business analytics tools.
- BUSS 502* Business Decision and Predictive Analysis
- BUSS 503* Business Intelligence Tools and Techniques
- BUSS 504* Advanced Business Analytics
- BUSS 539 Human Resource Analytics
- BUSS 545 Marketing Analytics
- BUSS 578 Business Risk Analysis and Optimization
- BUSS 579 Advanced Data Prediction and Business Optimization
- BUSS 582 Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making
- BUSS 587 Contemporary Issues in Applying Business Analytics
- BUSS 588 Ethical Dilemma of Business Analytics
- BUSS 604 Internship in Business Analytics
- BUSS 605* Capstone in Business Analytics
Business Optimization Specialization (8 Courses – 24 Credit Hours)
The business optimization specialization is designed to train students with the knowledge and skills in optimizing business performance in product development, project management, cost optimization, output productivity, and lean operations, product outsourcing, strategic procurement, product distribution, and overall supply chain management. In this specialization, students learn various applied research methods to analyze existing business processes and develop models for process optimizations and alignment of business functions with an organization’s resource constraints.
- BUSS 511 Contracts, Procurement & Supply Chain Management
- BUSS 514 Risk Management in Project Management
- BUSS 527 Emergent Roles of Project Management in Business
- BUSS 580 Operations Management and Analysis
- BUSS 581 Supply Chain and Logistic Management
- BUSS 583 Project and Operation Management Seminar
- BUSS 584 Administration of Service Operations
- BUSS 685 Optimality of Project Financing
- BUSS 686 Managing Multinational Operations
- BUSS 687 Emerging Challenges in Business Optimizations and Technologies
- BUSS 688 Resource Optimizations Techniques
- BUSS 689 Internship in Business Optimizations
- BUSS 690* Capstone in Business Optimizations
Entrepreneurship Specialization (8 Courses– 24 Credit Hours)
The entrepreneurship specialization is designed to expose students to the key concepts of innovative entrepreneurship including creativity and ideation, evaluation and screening of business concepts, business model formulation, startup models and the entrepreneurial process, team planning techniques, and launching innovative business strategies. This program also trains students with various applied research methods to find solutions for problems and risks being encountered when establishing new business ventures.
- BUSS 519 Merger and Acquisition
- BUSS 520 Venture Capital
- BUSS 565 Social Media Marketing
- BUSS 566 New Venture Management
- BUSS 571 Introduction to New Ventures
- BUSS 572 Venture Initiation
- BUSS 573 Case in Feasibility Analysis
- BUSS 586 Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship
- BUSS 667 Technology Commercialization
- BUSS 668 Entrepreneurship in Innovative Industries
- BUSS 669 Entrepreneurship eCommerce
- BUSS 671 Corporate Entrepreneurship
- BUSS 673 Social Entrepreneurship
- BUSS 676 Internship in Entrepreneurship
- BUSS 691* Capstone in Entrepreneurship
*Indicates a required capstone course.
Prerequisites
Students who do not have previous coursework related to the foundational knowledge required for the program must fulfill up to three (3) additional courses or nine (9) credits across the following. This would increase the total number of credits that the student would take in addition to the 36 credits.
- BUSS 280 Introduction to Statistics
- BUSS 290 Introduction to Data Analytics
- BUSS 351 Business Development
Capstone Project
Students complete a capstone project that represents significant work related to the degree and specialization. The exact project is determined in consultation with the professor for the course.