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Management Information Systems
Undergraduate CertificateThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
The online management information systems certificate program at University of Maryland Global Campus provides you with entry-level skills for a career in information systems. It is especially helpful if you are looking to move into a management position in information systems and bridge the gap between an organization’s functional users and technical developers.
Program Highlights
- Build your skills: Study the cybersecurity principles and strategies critical to an enterprise's cybersecurity program.
- Learn the fundamentals: Gain entry-level skills and knowledge for a career in information systems.
- Gain hands-on knowledge: Study hardware, software, and network components of computer systems and their interrelationships.
- Analyze strategies: Analyze business strategies and learn how technology solutions enable strategic outcomes.
- Apply knowledge: Study IT organizations, management of IT strategy, and factors in IT decision-making.
- Enhance your skills: Utilize business intelligence and data analytics techniques to support decision-making.
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, CSIA 300)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 300)
- (3 Credits, FINC 331)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 310)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 370)
- (3 Credits, DATA 330)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you gain entry-level skills and knowledge for a career in information systems.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
18
Transfer Credits
Up to 9
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
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State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
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Advanced Management
Undergraduate CertificateThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Successful managers today require a strong balance of managerial skills and the relationship-building soft skills to manage those who are completing the work. The online undergraduate certificate program in advanced management at University of Maryland Global Campus is designed to help you build expertise by applying best practices to decision-making, problem–solving, and relationship-building in real workplace scenarios. The curriculum covers management principles and organizational dynamics for today’s global, multicultural, and virtual organizations.
Program Highlights
- Create a management plan: Develop decision matrices, balanced scorecards, and performance reviews.
- Apply management skills: Promote communication, ethical behavior, and quality performance.
- Understand business processes: Learn about process improvement, federal contracting, and decision-making.
- Hone interpersonal skills: Employ self-reflection and mindfulness of individual and cultural differences.
- Support the workforce: Assess and develop performance measures, feedback, and coaching.
- Use best practices: Research, plan, and develop processes that ensure organizational performance.
Required Courses
Take the following four required courses:
- (3 Credits, BMGT 160)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 364)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 484)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 317)
Choose two courses from the following:
- (3 Credits, ACCT 301)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 305)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 335)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 365)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 380)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 464)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 465)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 496)
- (3 Credits, DATA 200)
- (3 Credits, FINC 330)
- (3 Credits, FINC 331)
- (3 Credits, HRMN 300)
- (3 Credits, HRMN 302)
- (3 Credits, HRMN 367)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 300)
- (3 Credits, MRKT 310)
Career Preparation
This certificate program is designed to help you gain management expertise through a broad and flexible course of study.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
18
Transfer Credits
Up to 9
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Management Information Systems
Bachelor of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Communicate effectively: Communicate clearly and effectively to meet expectations for content, purpose, organization, audience, and format.Ìý
- Utilize diverse technologies: Use a variety of technologies to achieve project-level or organizational information systems objectives.Ìý
- Manage projects: Apply appropriate management, analysis, and measurement methods and tools for information systems and technology to meet strategic and operational needs.Ìý
- Analyze data: Utilize business intelligence and data analytics tools and techniques to generate actionable insights.Ìý
- Study new technologies: Analyze the implications, and applications of existing and emerging technologies, while also considering ethical issues and global and multinational corporate perspectives.Ìý
- Incorporate best practices: Incorporate information security and risk management best practices in the planning, development, and use of information systems.Ìý
- Deploy data models: Develop clear and concise technical and functional requirements, including the use of data and process models, for information systems development and implementation.Ìý
- Create IT plans: Create information technology strategic and implementation plans that support organizational strategies and activities and improve processes and outcomes.Ìý
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, IFSM 201)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 300)
- (3 Credits, FINC 331)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 304)
- (3 Credits, CSIA 300)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 310)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 311)
- (3 Credits, DATA 330)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 370)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 438)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 461)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 495)
Related Required Course
The following required course may be applied to general education requirements:
- (3 Credits, CMSC 105)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you gain the know-how to succeed in IT and management careers in a variety of professional contexts. These skills may be transferrable to multiple industries in the public sector, the private sector, and the non-profit sector. Potential job titles include director of information technology, chief information officer, technical director, and IT director. ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ courses are taught by experienced faculty and address skills and competencies that are highly valued by today’s employers.Ìý
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.