Earn Your Master’s in IT Management Online or on Campus

Become an Effective Leader in Business and Information Technology

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Georgetown’s Master of Professional Studies in Information Technology (IT) Management prepares professionals to lead the business of information technology effectively. Expert faculty work to develop the next generation of balanced leaders and senior technologists, coupling business management acumen with proficiency in emerging information technologies.

This transformational degree offers a flexible learning format—you can choose to learn online or on campus—and concentration options that allow you to earn a graduate certificate alongside your master’s degree.

Concentration options include project management, business intelligence, cybersecurity, and digital integration. Regardless of the chosen study area or delivery format, you can expect a unique learning experience focused on information technology essentials, including strategic planning, budgeting, requirement analysis, communication, and modernization.

Select the format and concentration best suited to your learning style and career goals.

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A Balanced Technology Management Curriculum

Gain the business expertise and project management skills necessary to become an effective leader in the information technology field. The curriculum of Georgetown University’s Master’s in Information Technology (IT) Management program is the same whether you learn online or on campus. It focuses on integral business skills in addition to IT proficiencies and current industry issues.

The Master’s in IT Management curriculum consists of 12 courses totaling 36 credit hours, offering a balanced mix of theory and practice in the technology industry and the opportunity to complete a graduate degree in the concentration of your choice.

Courses you may take in this program include:

Ethics in IT Management

This course will help students understand how people – their suppliers and their customers, their partners and their competitors, and their superiors and their direct reports – come to have moral opinions on ethical dilemmas. Exploring both rational and affective theories of human morality, it will show how to resolve moral questions, and to make moral arguments. It will examine common ethical scenarios involving technology, as well as how ethics is handled in the business world. The course will review the ethical issues around Artificial Intelligence which may transform both the technology, and the people, with whom students will work.

Requirement Analysis & System Design

This course focuses on the fundamentals of requirements engineering and system architectures, and the relationship of the two areas. It details the requirements activities starting with organizational goal expression or with a stakeholder need, to stakeholder requirement discovery, through to systems requirements derivation in both agile and traditional methods. The course includes examining the alignment of the system architecture to the enterprise goals to validate the architecture (i.e. building the right system) as well as quality aspects of the architecture (building the system right). The course highlights linkages between early architectural decisions driven by business requirements and concept of operations, and system operational and support costs.

Communication for IT Managers

The Communication for Technology Managers course is designed to expose students to best practices in internal communication to foster organization-wide understanding and buy-in; ensure that employees understand how a technology decision impacts their work; and act upon internal needs as the technology project is implemented. Messaging exercises will focus on effectively communicating to leadership, employees and stakeholders during a technology change/design, implementation rollout, or crisis. Students will understand the technology manager’s key role in coordinating communications.

Enterprise Modernization & Technology Insertion

Enterprise Modernization is about enabling and managing effective IT modernization/integration in an organization. In this course, students will focus on using a systematic approach to identify, plan and communicate modernization initiatives that leverage technology to improve organizational outcomes, aligning to the mission as well as financial and business goals. You will explore new and emerging technologies that provide opportunities to drive transformation across the enterprise. Areas of study will include introducing complex change in large organizations and the role of IT as an enabler and collaborator of modernization across the organization.

Learn On Your Own Terms

Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies is committed to empowering highly motivated students to pursue their passions and accelerate their careers while maintaining the balance they need in their professional and personal lives. Offering professional master’s programs in an online or on-campus format allows you to learn from experts in highly regarded, applied programs in the way that’s most suited to your schedule.

Measurable Career Growth and Advancement

IT managers play essential roles in fields as diverse as information security, big data analytics, computer systems design, and high finance. Information Technology Management alums are prepared to enter many industries and take on a variety of leadership roles, including:

  • IT project manager
  • Cybersecurity expert
  • IT program manager
  • Strategic director
  • IT executive
  • Chief information officer
  • Entrepreneur

Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies (SCS) offers a wide range of degree programs and applied learning experiences to an inclusive community of students and professionals. These programs combine theory with practice through rigorous curricula built on a foundation of ethical values.

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