ONLINE M.B.A. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Specialization
The blended business and IT skills you gain in the online M.B.A. Information Technology concentration will help you and your team meet organizational goals throughout the business.
Throughout the program, you’ll develop sharper skills in critical thinking, gain the tools and thought processes to make evidence-based decisions and design and use processes for a competitive advantage.
Your degree’s comprehensive focus will enhance today’s top-paying IT leadership careers. Complete your Information Technology concentration with nine credits.
With Your M.B.A. in Information Technology Concentration, You Will:
- Understand key concepts related to how information systems are designed and developed.
- Deepen knowledge of how data is managed within an organization.
- Address problems related to IT business functions.
- Use Big Data and knowledge of systems development to help meet organizational goals.
- Sharpen your critical thinking, evidence-based decision-making and people management skills.
- Understand holistic business goals and challenges.
Information Technology Concentration
Your degree’s online courses will be taught by faculty with years of leadership experience. You will learn how to use data and systems design to make sound, evidence-based business decisions. Complete your Information Technology concentration with nine credits.
Sample Courses
ACCT 604 Database Design and Implementation - 3 Credits
Introduces the fundamentals of modern database concepts. Covers relational database design and implementation techniques, as well as the current relational database standard – the structured query language (SQL). Explore advanced topics such as big data analytics.
MISY 606 Object-oriented Systems Analysis, Design and Implementation - 3 Credits
Explores the management, organizational and technical challenges of developing systems. Analyzes business processes within a data-driven development methodology. Students will elicit requirements, weigh alternatives and design and implement solutions. Data, process and object modeling will be covered.
MISY 615 Enterprise Architecture - 3 Credits
Enterprise architecture is the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key requirements, principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution. The scope of the enterprise architecture includes the people, processes, information and technology of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
As the role of Big Data becomes more obvious to companies, the remote workforce grows, and cyber threats become more prevalent, it’s no surprise that IT roles are needed across every industry, which explains the rapid growth rate of the industry.
For instance, the computer and information systems manager role is projected to grow by 16% through 2031, and has a yearly average salary of $159,010 in 2022. The IT manager role was ranked #4 in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Technology Jobs list.
The Career Outcomes website reports what our graduates do, where they work and the salaries they make.
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AACSB
Accredited
$1,069
Cost per Credit
100%
Asynchronous