IT in Financial Services

Advisor: Dr. Ira Sack , Tal Ben-Zvi

The IT in Financial Services major responds to the need for information technology programs that are specific to the financial services community and the software vendors and consulting firms that serve this industry.

Students in Information Technology in Financial Services major take a number of general management courses in addition to the courses required for an M.S. in Information Systems degree.

Prerequisites for this major include a semester of microeconomics (MGT 503 or equivalent) and a semester of introductory calculus. For people with little or no information systems professional experience, Mgt 501 Information Management is a prerequisite.

Core Courses

MGT 600 Managerial Accounting
MGT 607 Managerial Economics
MGT 609 Introduction to Project Management
MGT 620 Statistical Models
MGT 623 Financial Management
MGT 680 Organizational Behavior and Theory
MGT 690 Designing Complex Organizations
MIS 684 Financial Services Marketing and Sales
MIS 760 IT Strategy
MIS 750 Management of IT Organizations

Breadth Courses

**MIS 662 Legal Issues for the IT Professional
**MIS 663 Entrepreneurship in IT
MGT 657 Operations Management

IT in Financial Services Major Courses

MIS 681 Financial Services Industry Trends and Issues
MIS 682 Capital Markets
MIS 683 Financial Services Industry Back Office
*MIS 620 Analysis and Development of Information Systems
*MIS 630 Data and Knowledge Management
*MIS 640 Managing Information Networks
MIS 710 Process Innovation and Management
MIS 730 Integrating  IS Technologies

* Select two of these courses.

**Breadth courses may be substituted with a Master’s Thesis