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M.S. in Management and Systems

CURRICULUM


The M.S. in Management and Systems curriculum was recognized for its innovation with an Excellence in Education Award for Online Education from the Electronic Document Systems Foundation. Working with a faculty advisor, you map out a program of study. You take seven core courses and four courses in one of four concentration options. You also choose an elective from any of the courses offered in the program, including an array of special topics courses. The Capstone Project gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your newly acquired skills by developing a comprehensive research or applied project that makes an original contribution to the body of knowledge in the field. This management-driven program can usually be completed in two years of part-time study or four semesters of full-time study, although students have up to five years to complete the degree.

Whether you study online through NYU Online, on-site at NYU’s midtown Manhattan location, or through a combination of the two, courses reflect the state of the profession today, and continually evolve in response to marketplace needs.

CORE COURSES

The seven required Core Courses are designed to ensure that you have an in-depth understanding of the most important functions of a business. They cover the best practices in process management, decision making, globalization, enterprise-level marketing, project management, technology fusion, financial management, and business research and development. The Core Courses form the foundation for the highly specialized knowledge offered in the concentration area you choose.

CONCENTRATIONS
You select from four leading-edge concentrations: Systems Management, Database Technologies, Enterprise Risk Management, and Strategy and Leadership. Each is uniquely designed to equip you with highly specialized knowledge combined with current best business practices. You choose four courses from your concentration to build depth in the field of study that is most valuable to you.

ELECTIVES
Students may select one additional course from any of the concentrations or from any Special Topics courses (when available). These Special Topics courses, offered periodically in response to emerging topics that reflect the changing business environment, supplement the standard array of courses with highly specialized and current topics. The courses are of interest to students who want more intense exposure to a particular field of study. With prior departmental approval, a special topics course may be used to meet the elective requirement, or may be substituted for one of the concentration courses.

CAPSTONE PROJECT
Students within two semesters of graduation are eligible to register for the Capstone Project. In the Capstone, you apply what you have learned throughout the master’s program within the context of a real-world organizational setting. You select a topic and work with a faculty member to write a thesis. The finished thesis demonstrates your ability to conduct comprehensive research and articulate original ideas and thought processes that make a practical contribution to the existing body of knowledge in the profession.

All final papers must be of an academic and research standard consistent with the requirements of current journals and publications. To successfully complete the project, your supervisor, one other reader from either academe or industry, and the department must approve your thesis.

Where academically warranted and subject to prior departmental approval, you may undertake and deliver a real-world project for active practitioners in the field. Under the direction of a faculty supervisor, you select and explore a topic and generate a practical application of your findings that demonstrates professional-level mastery of the subject. The project is reviewed by the faculty supervisor and one other field expert.