Important Information for New Saturday and Off-Campus Students

 

A team from Stevens was ranked #19 out of 343 in the Red Hat Challenge.

A team consisting of Subhav Patel - (Team Leader, Graduate Assistant of Prof. Luftman), Himati Gandhi and Michael Moschitta ended up in the top 20 of the Red Hat Challenge. In total, there were 343 teams of 143 schools participating, with 975 contestants from 15 countries.

All students in the MIS760 Strategic Issues classes were offered the opportunity to form a team and enter the challenge. There was no limit on the number of teams from a single school - in fact one school had more than 30 teams entered! The strategic analysis process that is the foundation for MIS760 serves as a valuable template for formulating business strategies and was used by the students in the Stevens team to help create their proposal.

The Red Hat Challenge is contest for graduate students to formulate a group concept plan in response to a business challenge question. The Red Hat Challenge is an open invitation to create an innovative solution to a Red Hat business problem and provide the Company with original, cutting-edge ideas to shape its future business model. All full-time and part-time students attending graduate business school or graduate design school in pursuit of a master's degree in business administration or similar degree are eligible to enter in the Red Hat Challenge.

This is the inaugural year of the challenge, but it may become an annual event. Professor Christine Bullen, the coordinator of the MIS760 course, says that she is prepared to sponsor a team every year. The prize for first place this year was $10,000 - a very nice incentive for future teams to think about!

Study Plan Templates

If you are starting in the MSIS program on campus you will need to file a study plan. Click here to download the Word template for your concentration (both Part Time and Full Time students).

Two new menu items added to MSIS Home Page

Two new sections on Advising and Graduation Requirements have been added. The Advising area provides general information about the advising process and a list of faculty advisors. The Graduation area provides information and shortcuts to the documents you will need for initiating the graduation process. Click on these sections in the menu at the left for the information.

Howe School launches MSIS programs in Bulgaria

The joint MSIS program between two leading Universities - the oldest and biggest Bulgarian University SU "St . Kliment Ohridski" and Stevens Institute of Technology - will provide a new outstanding curriculum that will allow students in Bulgaria to expand the frontiers of their future by increasing the level of their technical and business competences and abilities.
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New IT Graduate Curriculum: Information Technology Outsourcing & Legal Issues in Information Technology

 

Exciting new offering from Professor Jerry Luftman's MSIS program

Now you have the chance to learn the most demanding technologies in

IT Outsourcing and IT legal issues from our MSIS programs.

MS-IS Department: New Executive Board Members

Hoboken, NJ - Wesley J. Howe School and MS-IS Department is happy to welcome two major corporations IBM and Meta Group as Executive Board Members.

Degree Requirements:

Twelve graduate courses (36 credits) with a minimum GPA of 3.0 for the  degree of Master of Science.

Students can choose one of the following career tracks to complete their MSIS degree

Management Tracks*

• Information Management
  
• Business Process Management and Service Innovation
• Entrepreneurial IT
• IT in Financial Services Industry 
• IT Outsourcing Management Track 
• Global Innovation Management
  
• Human Resource Management 
• IT in Pharmaceutical Industry
  
• Project Management
  
• Legal Issues in IT
  
• Management Consulting
  
• Supply Chain Management
  
  

Technical Tracks 

• Computer Science  
• E-Commerce Technical  
• Enterprise Systems 
• Information Security  
• Integrated Information Architecture  
• Quantitative Software Engineering  
• Systems Engineering  
• Telecommunications Management  
• Knowledge Management/Data Mining
  

All tracks/concentrations are available weeknights in Hoboken.  The Informantion Management Track is also available on Saturday mornings, via a two-year lock step Masters program, for students sponsored by their company.  Students must have approval prior to joining this program. 

 

Most concentration specific courses are also availbale on Saturdays and are open to all students.  This includes the eight courses necessary for the MBA.

 

Corporate locations schedule their lock-step Masters program during the week and typically select the Informantion Management Track.

 

Most student take the Information Management concentration. It provides the opportunity to take two electives, where students can focus on any of the tracks. By completing the 1-2 remaining courses from a specific concentration (other than Information Management), in addition to the MSIS - Information Management Degree, graduates can also recieve a Stevens Graduate Certificate in the respective concentration.

 

In addition to strong practical, real-world IT and management skills, graduates of the program leave with improved communication, interpersonal, and team skills. The MSIS is a professional degree that integrates information and organizational cultures with emphasis on IT professionals that can contribute to the business.

 

To ensure quality and continuous improvement, participants are asked to appraise their courses twice each semester. These results are reviewed by the Faculty and are made available to both participants and their sponsoring organizations.