Online Graduate Certification program in MIS from Maharishi University of Management helps you get there!
Information technology is changing the
world incredibly fast. It is offering opportunities to create new products, new
business models, new efficiencies, and to get closer to customers around the
world. It is creating revolutions in business and in geopolitics. There is
great demand for visionary and dynamic IT executives who know how to harness
new information technologies and deploy them effectively in the cause of new
models and new growth. You can almost write your own new business card!
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) is
glad to announce a new, competitively priced, 18-credit Online Graduate
Certificate program in Management Information Systems (MIS) that can help your
further your career by helping you transition to, or make yourself more
effective in, Business Analyst and IT leadership roles.
The program will provide you with the theories,
practical knowledge, skills and expertise on how to strategically deploy
information systems to drive business value. Upon completion of this program,
you will:
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Understand the social
and organizational context, and how to align IT with organizational strategy to
drive collaboration, competitive advantage, and user satisfaction
·
Understand information
requirements and business processes, and how to strategically design and
deliver integrated enterprise systems and web applications, under budget and on
schedule.
·
Understand IT
Infrastructure, including hardware, software and networks, and how to make it
cost-effective, resilient and secure.
·
Understand emerging
technologies such as cloud and mobile and social computing and Big Data, and
how to structure and manage them for superior information access, agility and
decision-making
This program can be completed entirely online
in one to two years depending upon your needs. It will begin with 2 credits of
MUM’s unique course on the Science and Technology of Consciousness (STC), and
continue with 16 credits of MIS courses to be selected from a wide range of course
offerings.
For students who are new to MUM’s system of
Consciousness-Based (SM) education, this program will provide a unique blend of MIS
knowledge and the total knowledge of consciousness that together can help
launch their career on a faster track.
For alumni of the MUM Computer Science MS program who have
graduated in the last 10 years and have already taken the 4-credit STC or SCI course,
the STC course requirement under this program will be waived.
This program will be offered beginning Fall
2013. The first MIS class will tentatively begin on September 2, 2013.
Upon graduation from the MIS Certificate
program, students will also have the option to complete the MBA degree at MUM
with an additional 42 credits of study over two years of half-speed study in
the Evening-Weekend MBA program that will officially go online in the Fall 2013
semester.
For more on the program and to apply online,
visit mum.edu/MISCertificate. You can also email us
at MISCertificate@mum.edu
for any questions or clarifications.
