Information Systems, MSIS (Boston)

Graduatemajor2027 catalogEngineeringBoston32 semester hours totalverified parse

Core Requirements

From the catalog
The College of Engineering requires that students must earn a grade of C or higher in all required core courses to fulfill degree requirements.

INFO 5100 — Application Engineering and Development
INFO 5101 — Lab for INFO 5100

Coursework Option

28 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete 16 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.
Complete 12 semester hours from the other electives course list below.

Project Option

From the catalog
Complete 12 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.
Complete 12 semester hours from the other electives course list below.

INFO 7945 — Master's Project

Thesis Option

From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.
Complete 12 semester hours from the other electives course list below.
In addition to completing the thesis course, students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.

INFO 7945 — Master's Project
INFO 7990 — Thesis

Other Electives Course List

From the catalog
Complete courses from within any of the following subject codes or course offerings:
CSYE (except CSYE 6220)
DAMG
INFO (except INFO 5200)
TELE

One of:
- MUST 5510 — Sound, Motion, and Computer Interaction
- MUST 5520 — Data Sonification
- MUST 6603 — Embedded Programming for Digital Musical Instruments

Optional Concentration in Medical Software Engineering

INFO 5200 — Medical Application Engineering and Development
INFO 7380 — User Experience Design for Healthcare Applications
INFO 7405 — Advances in Engineering Medical Information Systems
INFO 7410 — Advanced Medical Device Software Engineering

Optional Co-op Experience

From the catalog
Complete the following (students must complete ENCP 6000 to qualify for co-op experience):

ENCP 6000 — Career Management for Engineers
One of:
- ENCP 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
- ENCP 6954 — Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time
- ENCP 6955 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad - Half-Time
- ENCP 6965 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

GPA requirements

32 total semester hours required (33 with optional co-op) Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Students who declare the optional concentration in medical software engineering may substitute Medical Application Engineering and Development (INFO 5200).
Students in the concentration may substitute INFO 5200 for the core requirement of INFO 5100 and INFO 5101.

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

INFO 5100 ↔ INFO 5200 (tier A, from a catalog footnote)
INFO 5101 ↔ INFO 5200 (tier A, from a catalog footnote)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under information-systems-msis-boston, and the official page is the authority.