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ICL Graduate Business SchoolLevel of Study
Master's Degree
A forefront business degree with a strong emphasis on research in Business Informatics prepares graduates to add value to both enterprises and research-led organisations. By studying the latest developments in Business Informatics, graduates learn how this field shapes the competitive landscape of industries.
Business Informatics is a discipline combining informatics and management innovation and concepts, incorporating service computing and security. It is a cross-disciplinary field that covers science and technology and represents a promising direction for distributed computing and cloud computing methodologies.
ICL is the only tertiary education in New Zealand currently offering the MBI, a programme created to fill a gap in the industry for a professional with the right blend of skills in IT and Business. Students are ideally positioned upon graduation to find employment. The MBI by Thesis is approved by NZQA as a qualification ID number 3749-5.
BYOD: Students of this programme are required to bring their own devices (laptop, tablet).
CURRICULUM
16-Month Programme: Four 16-week trimesters, excluding holidays. One trimester of face-to-face tuition on campus and three trimesters of supervised research work in preparation for completing the thesis.
180 Credits: Four 15-credit papers, one 30-credit research proposal, and a 90-credit thesis.
GRADUATE OUTCOMES
MBI graduates will have advanced-level knowledge of the emerging field of business informatics and be able to apply it in a variety of business roles requiring an ability to manage digital transformation in business settings.
According to NZQA, Master’s degree graduates are able to:
EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES
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