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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Survey of Masters Degree Program |
| Sudesh Duggal and Charles Mastruserio |
| Northern Kentucky University, USA |
| Northern Kentucky University, USA |
| The need of professional master’s degree program in Information systems (MSIS) has been in great de-mand during |
| the past few years. There may be several reasons for the people to pursue this particular degree. May be that |
| obtaining MSIS degree help the people to climb to the next level of their current position, or as a source to |
| networking with other people for future jobs, or for self esteem and their satis-faction, or as a graceful exit from |
| the long road to a PhD program. Whatever the reason may be there is increase in demand for MSIS program. The |
| purpose of this paper is to survey the MSIS degree pro-grams and their curriculums from twenty colleges and |
| universities across the United States. The infor-mation gathered from this survey as well as information gathered in |
| previous such surveys is evaluated and used to create a suggested program curriculum, which provides useful |
| information for academic heads and faculty who are interested in starting a new MSIS program, or revising an |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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