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    MSc 1 year full time

Course Description

The innovative Business Information Systems course provides you with sound, theoretically informed and relevant knowledge of modern information and communications technologies and its use in key business and organisational settings.  Graduates will have the specialist scientific and technological expertise as well as research skills to be able to develop or further their careers as business IT practitioners, “hybrid” managers or multidisciplinary researchers. This programme is suitable if you don’t have a management or technology based qualification.

  • Unique programme which combines the mangement knowledge and technical skills required by successfull hybrid managers in contemporary organisations .
  • Flexibility to tailor your studies to suit your specific areas of interest, such as; enterprise systems e-business, knowledge management, business intelligence and cyber crime.
  • Latest thinking and exciting intellectual challenges provided by academics who are at the frontiers of their subjects.

Entry Requirements

UK Lower Second Class Honours degree (2:2) or equivalent. A background in business and management and/or computer science is preferred but not essential.

Consideration will also be given to relevant professional qualifications and/or work experience.

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Fees

Home and EU students tuition fee per year 2018/19*: £10,400 International students tuition fee per year 2018/19*: £17,500

Student Destinations

Graduates with a MSc in Business Information Systems from Royal Holloway will have enhanced and widen their career prospects. The programme provides an excellent preparation for both managers and business IT practitioners and those who intend to embark on a research degree. The programme will help you to use your existing skills in the burgeoning field of information and communication technologies, as well as increase your degree of confidence in communicating with other people.

Module Details

Pre-course preparation

  • Foundations of Modern Management

Core modules

  • People and Technology
  • Information System Design, Development and Management
  • Information Systems Theory and Practice
  • Database and Web Technologies
  • Dissertation Preparation and Research Methods
  • Dissertation

Optional modules

  • Enterprise Systems Management
  • E-Business
  • Knowledge Management
  • Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
  • Cyber Crime

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