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MSc Information Systems: Business Information Technology

Institution:

University of Manchester

Dept/School/Faculty:

Manchester Business School

Duration:

1 year

Entry Requirements:

2:1, in a computer-related or information technology subject. TOEFL/IELTS may be required for non-UK students. Apply now! You can submit your application before you graduate.

Masters Fees:

Home: £9,600 Overseas: £15,200

Start Month(s):

September

Masters Degree Type:

MSc

Contact Name:

PGT Masters Admissions Office

Study Type:

Business Information Technology is one of the four pathways for the MSc Information Systems introduced for entry in 2008.

Whether an organisation is small or global and almost irrespective of its product or service offering, information and communications technologies (ICT) will play a vital role in developing, managing and sustaining the survival of the business. This pathway is designed to help you to understand how to deploy information and communications technologies to realise business goals and innovate business processes. You are not taught how to develop business computing solutions per se , but concentrate upon how information and software systems can be best exploited within the organisational environment to manage data, information and knowledge.

Within the pathway, you focus upon how group working and virtual teams can be best facilitated, how e-business and distributed networked systems support business objectives, and how business and knowledge processes can be modelled to achieve superior results.

Course Structure

(all taught course units are 15 credits)

The first eight months contain three compulsory course units and five optional course units, followed by the dissertation.
You are required to study the following core units:

- Industrial Leadership Forum
- Research Methods and Practice

Plus the following core unit according to your pathway:

Business Information Techonology
- Human Computer Interaction and Web User Interfaces

Plus five optional course units from a range of subjects (subject to timetabling and prior
experience).

- Application and Evaluation of IS
- Business Improvement Tools, Techniques
and Systems
- Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support
- Digital Technologies for Marketing
- Digital Technologies, Development and
Emerging Markets
- Distributed Systems and Internet
Technology
- e-Business
- e-Government
- Global Digital Transformation of Business
and Society
- Information and Knowledge Management
- IS Strategy and Enterprise Systems
- IT Trends
- Managing Projects
- Mathematical Programming and
Optimisation
- Megaproject Leadership and Strategy
- Psychology of Behaviour and
Decision Making
- Relationship Marketing
- Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis
- Strategic Supply Chain Management
- The Reflective Project Manager

Other course units offered by MBS or other schools may also be possible (subject to timetabling, prior experience, school policies, and agreement with the course leaders and course directors concerned).

See the website for more details of the optional course units: http://www.mbs.ac.uk/ programmes/masters/courses
Note: all optional units are subject to demand.

Summer research period
Research dissertation / Project (60 credits)

You must complete a satisfactory dissertation to be awarded your MSc. This piece of work, undertaken in your third term and over the summer, gives you the opportunity to apply the techniques and theories you have learned during the taught modules. Dissertation topics reflect the expertise of your lecturers and you may be asked to choose from a list of options. Supervision often starts with small groups of students studying similar topics meeting with their supervisors, who then guide students in deciding on the focus for their individual dissertations. The dissertation itself normally consists of a literature review followed by a piece of empirical work, involving either qualitative or quantitative research. Some feature industrial placements.

Recent dissertations have covered:

• The use of visual analytics for human decision making for predicting the success of future technologies
• Social gaming for decision making
• A social media strategy for a new web company
• Change management methods of a multinational consultancy company (based on a company placement)
• Business cases for customer relationship management (based on a company placement with a pharmaceutical multinational)
• The role of consultancy companies in selling technology solutions.

Visit the MSc Information Systems: Business Information Technology page on the University of Manchester web site for more details!

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 Results

Unit of Assessment: Business and Management Studies				What is the RAE?
FTE Category A Staff Submitted	4*	3*	2*	1*	U/C
182.22	25%	40%	30%	5%	0%

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