The program addresses the themes of leadership, globalization of business, business ethics, and organizational communications, along with the advanced study of management information systems. The program consists of two phases. Phase One is designed to address deficiencies in undergraduate course work considered to be prerequisite for the Phase Two (30 semester hours) graduate course work. In addition to the Phase One core requirements, proficiency in a business computing language, typically COBOL or C, is required. Students with significant undergraduate coursework in business may be waived from some, or all, of the Phase One requirements. Exemption exams are also available to waive Phase One requirements. There is no charge for the exam, however, a student may only attempt each exam once.
The graduate program, offered by the Department of Operations Management and Information Systems, consists of 10 Phase Two courses, seven of which are required of all majors and three of which consist of elective courses selected by the student with the approval of the academic program coordinator.. Whereas the required courses ensure an in-depth exposure to important management information systems issues and technology, the elective courses enable the student to survey related areas or to focus in a particular area of his or her choice.
To be selected from these or other courses with the consent of the academic program coordinator.
* Courses can be taken as undergraduate courses at a community college.
All 500 level courses are 2 credit hours each, meet one night per week, last for 8 weeks and are offered only at Rockford, Hoffman Estates, and Naperville.
A one time exemption exam is offered through the University Testing Center in Adams Hall for each 500 level course at no charge.
All 200-300 level courses are offered at NIU-DeKalb as undergraduate credit hours.