MSc Informatics (Beijing)

Intakes: January / October
Duration: Full time 18 Months / Part time 36 Months

Overview:
This innovative programme, accredited by the University of Reading and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education (China), is delivered in Beijing in collaboration with Beijing Institute of Technology. The programme provides students with a unique opportunity to study the two popular disciplines of business and information management. Students develop scientific principles and approaches towards information in terms of gathering, processing and utilisation within businesses. With a theroetical and practical knowledge acquired from this programme, students will be capable of providing the right information to the right people for the right purpose within information intensive enterprises. This course is suitable for those who wish to pursue careers in information-intensive organisation, which require strategic deployment of technologies and methods to support operations and decision making in specialist domains.

 

Learning Experience:
Students are able to apply their domain knowledge and skills within the scope of a dissertation. Dissertation topics are either proposed by departmental staff, students, or collaborating commercial partners, allowing students to contribute to cutting-edge academic and commercial projects. Considerable effort is given to identifying commercial projects that will provide students with relevant work experience to support their future career.

 

Structure:
The course will be delivered within a flexible and modular framework. Students are required to complete 6 taught modules and a project-based dissertation. A taught module spans over three weeks consisting of pre-intensive, intensive, post-intensive phases.

 

Compulsory modules:

• Applied informatics
• Research methods

Optional modules:

• IT project management
• Business domain and requirements analysis
• Organisational design and management information
• Systems analysis and design
• Business communications and negotiation
• Business intelligence and data mining
• Distributed communications and middleware

Descriptions of all the modules can be found at Postgraduate taught modules.

 

Career prospects:
Graduates will be able to pursue multidisciplinary careers. They will be qualified for a variety of positions, such as:

• information specialist / advisor
• business application consultant / architect
• information resource manager / consultant
• project manager
• knowledge management specialist
• IT operations manager
• systems analyst / developer
• business analyst
• software engineer
• researcher / educator / trainer

This course is also recommended as a preparation for students aiming to pursue a PhD degree in information management.

For more information, please read Brochure MSc Informatics BIT.

 

Note: A student is permitted to transfer between the MSc Business Information Management/MSc Information Management and Systems and the MSc Informatics delivered at Beijing Institute of Technology, subject to the approval by the programme director.