Is This Degree For You?
The MS in Communications and Information Management expands students' analytical thinking and creativity by linking communication, innovative technologies, essential business skills, and management of data and knowledge. It provides tools for applying knowledge to a variety of contexts such as: practical applications for information technology, information management and records management, website design and management, computer network designs, public relations, advertising, and multimedia design and production. The degree attracts professionals with a range of backgrounds, as well as college graduates with various majors. The degree positions you for an array of communication-information management positions in corporations, IT, health care, media, education, consulting, telecommunications, data networks, financial institutions, retail and manufacturing.
Specifically, the MS in Communications and Information Management seeks to meet the needs of the following populations:
- Working professionals, seeking a vertical or horizontal move within their organizations or to another organization: these students will add perspectives, knowledge, and experience specifically related to their career paths.
- Professionals with undergraduate business specializations: these students who already have business knowledge and experience will broaden their base of skills and increase their value to their organizations; this may be a better choice for a graduate degree than an MBA.
- Educators who seek an advanced degree: these students will add new curricular specializations and may focus their degree work on the needs of their schools or colleges.
- Managers, executives, and specialists looking to enhance their current positions: through the specializations in the program and the field projects, these students focus on areas of particular interest, especially organizational issues and technological advances.
- College graduates with majors in such areas as communications, computer science, professional writing, liberal arts, management, marketing, and business administration: these students add business perspectives, decision making and problem solving, technological advances, and organizational communication to their education.
- College graduates who seek employment in the burgeoning information technology and business job markets throughout the world.
