Experienced Professionals Can Get Our World-Renowned Degree in Just One Year
By leveraging your work experience and a challenging, fast-paced curriculum, you can minimize your time away from the workforce, returning as tech leader with in-demand skills.
If you have three years of relevant professional experience or more, the Master of Information Systems Management: 12-Month pathway provides the same degree in information systems and evidence-based management as our flagship degree, but in an accelerated format. Students complete the 12-Month pathway full-time from August to August.
This program challenges you with a comprehensive curriculum in technology design and implementation, business strategy, professional communication, and management that will prepare you to have an immediate impact on an organization. We augment classroom learning with opportunities to work with industry clients on real-world problems via required Capstone Projects and other elective project-based courses. Due to the experience level of 12-Month candidates, an internship is not required.
Duration: 1 year / 3 semesters (Fall, Spring, Summer)
For detailed curriculum information, please visit the Information Systems Management Student Handbook.
Below is one possible schedule for Information Systems Management: 12-Month pathway. Actual schedules will vary depending on pathway, concentrations, and electives.
Class titles in bold are core courses. Heinz College offers a mix of full-semester (14 weeks) and half-semester courses (7 weeks) for core and elective courses.
*Half-semester courses
Compare all four Information Systems Management options at a glance
The Information Systems program is offered in four distinct pathways—16-Month, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics (BIDA), BIDA 12-Month, and MISM 12-Month. Compare all four and choose the path to power your goals.
