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Graduate Certificate

In just five or six courses, you can develop new skills, update your credentials and enhance your resume.

Some credits earned for a Graduate Certificate will transfer into the associated master’s degree – consult your advisor. This does not apply to Graduate Certificate in College Teaching.

Available Concentrations & Requirements

Information Resource Management

The concentration in Information Resource Management will help you fully realize the capabilities of your organization’s IT systems. You’ll learn how to plan and manage information resource initiatives and how to recruit and train technology staff.

Most of the students who are only pursuing an MSA Graduate Certificate do not need to meet the competency requirements. Students pursing an IRM Certificate are required to meet the accounting and statistics competency requirements in order to meet the IRM course prerequisites.

Required Courses I  (3 hours)

  • BIS 634 Seminar in Information Systems Issues

Required Courses II  (3 hours)

Note: Students may not count both BIS 601 and CPS 603 on an IRM concentration or IRM certificate.

Required Courses III  (3 hours)

  • BIS 630 Systems Analysis and Design
  • CPS 510 Software Systems Engineering

Note: Students may not count both BIS 630 and CPS 510 on an IRM concentration or IRM certificate.

Required Courses IV  (3 hours)

  • BIS 635 Business Systems Applications
  • CPS 612 Software Project Management

Note: Students may not count both BIS 635 and CPS 612 on an IRM concentration or IRM certificate.

Required Courses V  (3 hours)

One specialized course determined by the MSA Director.

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