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Masters in Information Systems for Business Performance

College of Business and Law
PAC Course Code: CKL18
Qualification: MBS
Duration: 1 year full-time This is a 12 month course from October to September with taught modules running from October to March, followed by Summer Examinations, followed by a Summer Project.
EU Fees: €2,750 (for 2011-2012)
Non-EU Fees: €9,960 for 2011/2012. Fees for 2012/2013 will be set in March 2012.
Closing Date - EU Applicants: Fri, 01 June 12
Closing Date - Non-EU Applicants: Fri, 01 June 12

Overview of Information Systems for Business Performance (MBS)

This course is offered by the Department of Business Information Systems (BIS) at University College Cork (Ireland), this MBS is a full-time 12 month postgraduate programme partly taught and partly based on a large scale industry project in collaboration with large corporations based in Ireland.

Fundamentally, this new MBS aims at providing students with a coherent set of skills essential in building, managing, and leveraging an effective and efficient Information Systems (IS) capability for the modern organisation. This means providing students with a clear understanding of how to manage information systems and leverage the potential of the latest Information Technologies (IT) to create value for the firm; reducing costs, solving organisational problems or providing better products and services to customers.

The MBS ISBP programme seeks to find a balance between the management activities and the analysis/development activities that affect the practice and theory of information systems in the modern organisation. Information systems can no longer be regarded solely as technical systems or arrangements of new technologies, but rather must be viewed as social systems operating within a specific organisational context that must be properly understood. Thus, much emphasis is placed on understanding how organisations operate and how the factors affecting their performance can be finely tuned using information systems.

In this programme, the applied aspects of building, leveraging and managing Information Systems and Information Technologies rely on both class room and practical computer laboratory interaction where students are taught from beginners level.

The programme prepares students to take up business analyst/programmer and management positions in IT departments in small, medium or large organisations, whether public or private, or whether in the financial services or in manufacturing.

What will I be Studying?

The MBS consists of 8 taught courses (Part 1) and a Collaborative Industry Research Project (Part 2), which add up to a total of 90 credits over 12 months.

Part 1

This takes place over the 8 months of the academic year from the end of September to the end of May. It consists of the following taught courses:

- Electronic Business Models and Systems
- Data Modelling and Database Systems
- Application Modelling and Design
- Storage Technology
- Business Continuity and IT Value
- IT Organisation, In-sourcing and Out-sourcing
- Enterprise Business Intelligence
- Current Issues in IT

Part 2

This takes place over the 4 months following Part 1 from the beginning of June to the end of September. It consists in a Collaborative Industry Research Project aimed at providing students with a practical understanding and practical experience of undertaking a research project in collaboration with a business partner.

This collaborative project will allow groups of students to specialise on certain industry sectors (eg: financial services, pharmaceuticals, government, retail/distribution, etc...) in the context of a research project carried out under the supervision of an industry expert and an academic specialist. Groups will develop a proposal and carry out fieldwork in order to produce a report on their selected topic.

Entry Requirements

The programme is open to all graduates with a Second Class Honours degree or higher, except graduates from degrees with high levels of software development content (e.g. business information systems, computer science, etc). Candidates who do not meet or achieve the second class honours, grade two standard may be admitted to the programme on the basis of significant practical or professional experience.

English Language Requirements:

IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL equivalent

Part-Time Taught Postgraduate Programmes

Please note that non-EU applicants are not eligible to study part-time programmes

Application Procedure

Application for this programme is on-line at www.pac.ie/ucc. For full details of the application procedure click: How to apply

Please note that you will be asked to fill in a supplementary form as part of the application process for this programme. A copy of this form is available here SupplementaryFormCKL18 (27kB)

Find out More

Number of Places: 30

For information about this MBS programme, please contact

Dr. Karen Neville, Business Information Systems, UCC.

Telephone:(021) 4903668

E-Mail: kneville@afis.ucc.ie

Website please click: MBSISBP

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