Master in Systems Engineering (Master's)

Tuition comes to 25,088 USD per year.

This Master's program takes a sociotechnical, engineering approach to software, enabling students to tackle real-world complexity. It aims to shape students into intuitive problem solvers and experienced engineering architects at the intersection of computer science, engineering, and ethics. The curriculum includes extensive coursework in Big Data engineering and analytics, covering areas like data management, business intelligence, data science, and cloud computing. Students learn to build systems, write machine-learning algorithms, and manage large-scale data platforms.

Focus areas include Big Data engineering, Data analytics, Data science, Cloud computing, Machine learning, Concurrent computing.

The program requires 32 semester hours of coursework and can be completed through a coursework-only option, a project option, or a thesis option, each involving core courses, electives, and potentially a master's project or thesis.

Graduates are prepared to be intuitive problem solvers, experienced engineering architects, and result leaders, capable of making business cases for analytics projects and working with complex, large-scale data platforms.

This program is designed for technically advanced students, particularly software engineers, who are interested in complex mathematical operations and large-scale data analytics.

The page does not explicitly state admission requirements such as GRE/GMAT scores or specific prerequisite courses, nor does it list required documents like statements of purpose or letters of recommendation.

The programme totals about 32 credit hours. On-campus. For international students, tuition is around the median for US programmes.

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