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Harness information for strategic impact

Earn your master’s degree in information management, offered in residential and online modes

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Choose between 3 tracks

Select from Early Career, Early Career-Accelerated or Mid-Career tracks based on your goals and professional experience.

Several in-demand specializations

Mix and match specialization courses with other electives to develop a specially tailored curriculum that will propel your career goals.

Career growth

Open doors to top employers in Seattle and beyond. Our graduates are employed at companies such as AWS, Deloitte, Washington state and Microsoft.

Why pursue a graduate degree in information management? 

Information is the lifeblood of any organization. Making leadership decisions without the backing of hard data can cause a ripple effect, expending valuable time, money and resources to fix problems that could have been avoided. When you learn how to unlock the full potential of data and information systems, you improve business operations, streamline processes and set organizations up to achieve measurable goals.

When you make data-driven, strategic business decisions, you become the leader people respect. Whether you have limited professional experience, want to switch careers or want to advance to the next level in your organization, the University of Washington Information School’s Master of Science in Information Management can help you achieve your goals.

Specializations

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Science
  • Information Architecture
  • Program/Product Management & Consulting
  • User Experience

The return on investment

How can a master’s in information management advance your career?

$108,000

is the median full-time starting salary.1

442,666

information management-related job postings are available.2

+15.2%

is the projected growth rate for information management occupations over the next decade.2

85%

of employed graduates are in career-related positions.3

1 Graduate next destination survey (2023)
2 Lightcast, April 2022 to March 2023
3 MSIM career placement survey (2021)

Two students smile while looking at a masters in information management project on a laptop.

Customize your degree

Choose the Early-Career track if you want to explore a wide range of topics in information management and broaden your resume through multiple immersive, hands-on experiences; pursue the Early-Career Accelerated track if you’re an early-career professional with focused academic goals and you’re looking to earn your degree faster; or enroll in the Mid-Career track if you have at least five years of related professional experience.

We also offer several specializations to tailor your degree to your interests: Business Intelligence, Data Science, Program/Product Management & Consulting, User Experience, and Information Architecture. Typically, Early-Career students complete two specializations, while Early-Career Accelerated and Mid-Career students complete one.

What our students have to say

The iSchool is excellent at bringing today’s industry practices and expectations into the curriculum alongside the foundations of information management. I graduated understanding the principles of information management and feeling immediately ready to add value to my firm and client’s goals and initiatives in the tech sector.

— Emily Smalligan, MSIM ’18, Senior Associate, PwC

What I appreciated most about the iSchool is the balance of ethics and process management and the human capacity for empathy that is discussed in courses having to do with cybersecurity. There is value in this curriculum for students who already possess a technical bachelor’s degree, and the opportunity to upskill for students coming from design and operations backgrounds.

— Devin Barich, MSIM ’21, Presidential Management Fellowship recipient

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