| MSIM: Master of Science in Information Management (Information School) | MBA: Master of Business Administration (Foster School of Business) | MSDS: Master of Science in Data Science (Interdisciplinary, UW Graduate School) |
| Focus | - Information and IT management.
- Core courses in leadership, information management, ethics and policy, systems thinking and problem solving.
| - Business management.
- Leadership, strategic thinking and entrepreneurship.
| - Interdisciplinary approach to manipulating large data sets, analyzing data, and communicating the results to stakeholders.
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| Curriculum | - Four core courses plus elective coursework and formal specializations in six areas in high demand by employers.
- Culminating experience to synthesize learning (industry-sponsored project, internship or faculty-directed research project).
| - Core courses in accounting, economics, ethics, finance, marketing, operations management, strategy, and quantitative methods.
- Electives focus on personal career objectives.
- Full-time and evening MBA students may complete a specialization or certificate (added credits may be required).
| - Core courses, partially sequenced, in topics such as: statistics, machine learning, human-centered data science and visualization, scalable data systems, data management.
- Culminates in a two-quarter, group capstone project.
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| Common job titles | - Analyst: business, business intelligence, data, security or technology
- Consultant: advisory, security or technology
- Data scientist
- Engineer/developer: artificial intelligence, business intelligence, data or systems
- Manager: product, program or project
- User experience designer/researcher
| - Brand manager
- Business analyst
- Controller
- Data analyst
- Entrepreneur
- Finance manager
- Financial analyst
- Management consultant
- Marketing manager
- Marketing researcher
- Operations manager
- Venture capitalist
| - Business analyst
- Data analyst
- Data architect
- Data engineer
- Data scientist
- Machine learning engineer
- Marketing analyst
- Quantitative analyst
- Researcher
- Statistician
- Systems engineer
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| Option to work full time while in school | - Early-Career & Early-Career Accelerated (residential): No.
- Early-Career & Early-Career Accelerated (online): Yes, if going at a slower pace.
- Mid-Career (residential & online): Yes.
| - Full time: No.
- Evening or Hybrid: Yes.
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| Approximate total tuition (based on 2023-24 costs to meet minimum requirements) | - Early-Career: $65,910.
- Early-Career Accelerated: $40,560.
- Mid-Career: $36,504.
| - Full time: $76,890 resident; $112,254 non-resident.
- Evening: $92,003.
- Hybrid MBA: $90,000.
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