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    MSc 1 year full-time (September start), 16 months full-time (January start), 3 years part-time (September start)

Course Description

Build your business brain, your technical understanding, and your ability to bring them both together as an IT professional. On this MSc Information Systems, you’ll investigate complex situations, and learn to develop and communicate solutions that combine business and technology ideas.

You’ll construct and optimise your own databases, use web programming languages and content management systems to design software, plugins and tools, and apply your knowledge to current business problems. By focusing on current industry issues, you’ll learn to meet the needs of your current or desired users, while you sharpen your entrepreneurial leadership skills for senior or specialist roles in the tech sector.

Your course is shaped by advice from an industry advisory board, to ensure you have the skills and knowledge the sector currently needs, and you’ll be learning from lecturers who maintain working partnerships with information technology companies.

Entry Requirements

UK qualifications

  • An upper second class honours degree in a relevant subject, including Computer Sciences, Business or Social Sciences, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.

English language requirements

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Graduates of this course have gone onto roles such as:

  • Business intelligence developer
  • Finance officer
  • Software test analyst

Module Details

Core modules

  • Cyber Security For Information Systems – 15 credits
  • Database Management – 15 credits
  • Managing Information Systems – 30 credits
  • Research Methods – 15 credits
  • User Experience Design – 15 credits
  • Web Product Development and Management – 30 credits
  • Master’s Project – 60 credits

Optional modules

  • Business Intelligence - 15 credits
  • Data Visualisation and Exploratory Analytics - 15 credits

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