MASTER IN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TABLE OF
CONTENTS

01. About upGrad

02. About Clark University

03. Program Highlights

04. Faculty and Industry Experts

05. upGrad Learning Experience

06. New Additions

07. Industry Projects

08. Learning Path

09. MS in Information Technology

10. Meet the Class

11. Hear from Our Learners

12. Onshore Alumni Benefits

13. Program Details and Admission Process

ABOUT
UPGRAD
upGrad has delivered over 20 million hours of learning, delivering programs by collaborating with
universities across the world including Duke CE, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business
School among others.

Online education is a fundamental disruption that will have a far-reaching impact. upGrad was
founded taking this into consideration. upGrad is an online education platform to help individuals
develop their professional potential in the most engaging learning environment.
Since its inception, upGrad has delivered over 20 million hours of learning, delivering programs by
collaborating with universities across the world including LJMU, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and
Deakin Business School among others. And it doesn’t end there.
upGrad, in collaboration with IIIT Bangalore, a renowned university and Clark University, US is
excited to offer a one-of-its-kind, academically rigorous and industrially relevant MS in Information
Technology.
The faculty includes an average of 15+ years of experience. The faculty covers the conceptual
depths of topics such as Computer Science, data science, machine learning and artificial
intelligence. These will be complemented by industry-relevant case studies from major industry
verticals by industry leaders with 8+ years of experience from upGrad’s industry network.

Our aim is simple:

We strive to create
high-impact, on-campus
hands-on experiences that
prepare students for
meaningful and productive
careers.

Ronnie Screwvala
Co-founder & Executive Chairman

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ABOUT
CLARK UNIVERSITY

More than 40,000+

Founded 1887
Alumni

Clark School of Management, QS World University Rankings

Accredited by AACSB
2022, 600 - 650
International

More than 100

Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1 Bachelor’s, Master’s &
certificate programmes

Home to a diverse community of students, Clark University was founded in 1887 as the first
all-graduate school in the US. The co-educational university offers bachelor’s, master’s, certificates,
and doctoral degree programs in various disciplines. The university’s mission is to prepare students
to solve complex problems of the rapidly changing society and contribute their share of knowledge
to help bring changes in society. With more than 3,000 students from 80+ countries of which 25%
are international students, and a 40,000+ strong alumni network, Clark University offers exceptional
support to its students by offering excellent academic facilities under the mentorship of experienced
faculties.

About us

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ACHIEVEMENTS AT A GLANCE:
• Clark University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, American
Psychological Association, and Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business (AACSB).

• Over 200 full-time instructional faculty are employed at the university.

• Clark University is ranked 601-650 by the QS World Rankings 2022.

• As per the Times Higher Education University Ranking, Clark University is ranked 401-500
in 2021.

• The US News & World Report National University Ranking gave the university 103rd position
in 2021.

• Over 130 student clubs and organizations to take part in. Society includes singing, theatre troupes,
photography clubs, entrepreneurship club, pre-health society, and more.

• The university has its student newspaper named The Scarlet and online radio, ROCU (Radio of
Clark University).

• The university houses 6 Libraries and 7 Research Centers and Institutes.

• The faculties conduct research across the globe and receive funding from the US Department of
Agriculture, NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and more.

• Clark University is Ranked 36 on Best Value Schools by US News Ranking (Focusing on the strong
ROI).

• Ranked 21st among Small Universities in the World by Times Higher Education Rankings.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
FOR TRANSFER TO CLARK UNIVERSITY

• The applicant must complete the Advance Certificate Programme in Data Science from IIIT,
Bangalore with 3 or above CGPA

• IELTS: 6.5 overall, recommended sub-score minimum of 6, or TOEFL (ETS code 5969): 85 overall,
recommended sub-score minimum of 20, or Duolingo: 110, recommended sub-score minimum of
100, or PTE: 53 (No band less than 50)

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PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHTS

Dual Accreditation and Alumni Status

Get certified by IIITB and Clark University, US.

High Employment Potential

Starting salaries of IT Professionals in US is $87,000 as per indeed.com

Customisable Curriculum
Choose from 2 concentration at Clark University on the basis of your background
and career aspirations and get the learning you want.

Complete your course in 1 year

Only 8 subjects to be done which makes it easier to complete course in 1 year
unlikely.

Optional Practical Training (OPT)

STEM programs leading upto 3 years of OPT (post-study work visa).

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 FACULTY AND
INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Hindol Basu Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand

CEO Dean | Academics CEO

Actify Data Labs International Institute of Information Gramener
Technology Bangalore
An alumnus of IIT and IIM with over 13 A Gold medallist from IIM Bangalore, an
years of experience in Analytics with Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from alumnus of IIT Madras and London
industry leaders such as the CitiGroup, Mississippi State University and over an School of Business, Anand is among
Tata Industries etc. experience of 10 years in several the top 10 data scientists in India.
multinational organisations.

Tricha Anjali Dr. Debabrata Das

Ex- Associate Dean, IIITB Director, IIITB

Prof. Anjali has a PhD from Georgia Dr. Debabrata Das is currently Director
Tech as well as an integrated M.Tech. of IIITB. He has received his PhD
(EE) from IIT Bombay. Her research degree from IIT-Kharagpur. His main
interests computer and wireless. areas of research interest are IoT and
Wireless Access Network's MAC, QoS,
Power saving.

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 Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Ankit Jain Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Professor Sr. Research Scientist Assistant Professor

International Institute of Information Uber Ai Labs International Institute of Information
Technology Bangalore Technology Bangalore
An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB,
Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD in and Harvard Business School with over Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from Ecole
Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and 9 years of experience. Polytechnic Federate Switzerland,
18 years of experience with Infosys M.Sc. from IISc Bangalore in System
Technologies as well as several other Science and Signal Processing, and
companies. B.Tech.

Kalpana Subbaramappa Mirza Rahim Baig

ex-AVP | Decision Science Lead | Business Analytics

Genpact Flipkart

Kalpana is the ex-AVP of Decision Advanced analytics professional with

Sciences at Genpact with an 8+ years of experience as a consultant
experience of over 20 years. in the e-commerce and healthcare
domains.

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UPGRAD
LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Coaching Format
Dedicated Student Support Team Online format with weekly live sessions from
industry experts to help with topic walk-throughs,
Weekly real-time doubt clearing sessions doubt resolution and personalised project
feedback. Offline sessions such as Basecamps and
Live Discussion forum for peer-to-peer Hackathons.
doubt resolution monitored by technical
experts

Peer-to-peer networking opportunities with

an alumni pool of 10,000+

Lab walk-throughs of 15+ industry-driven Hands-On Projects and Hackathons

case studies
7 + case studies to choose from and a hackathon
every quarter to apply learnings.
Access to the program for up to 3 years

Mentorship
20+ live interactive sessions with
industry experts, Fortnightly
personalized group (1:12) coaching
sessions, 1:1 interaction with Industry
Mentors.

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NEW
ADDITIONS

Career Essential Soft-skills Program

Excel your personal & professional life with upGrad’s Soft Skills Program.

Study Three fundamental Skills - Interview & Job Search, Corporate & Business Communication
and Problem Solving.

Get access to 40+ learner hours of soft skills content delivered by the best faculty & Industry
experts

30-Hour Programming Bootcamp for Learners

A 30-hour Python Programming bootcamp focusing on developing Basic + Intermediate Python
Programming Concepts to assist learners.

A blended learning experience delivered via Interactive live sessions and assessments.

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INDUSTRY
PROJECTS

IMDb Movie Analysis Uber Supply-Demand Gap Lead Scoring Fraud Detection

Creditworthiness of Speech Recognition Image Captioning Gesture Recognition

Customers

SHOP

Social Media Listening Telecom Churn Interactive Market Retail Giant Sales
Campaign Analysis Forecasting

And many more!

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LEARNING
PATH

Preparatory Course IELTS Preparation

2 weeks & Exam
Tools: Python,
Excel

Data Toolkit
12 weeks
Tools: Python,
Excel, mySQL

Machine Learning Course 3

9 weeks 11 weeks
Tools: Python, Excel Tools: Python, Excel

Advanced
Certification in Data
Science

Journey in

Elective Master of Science (M.Sc) in

Information Technology at Clark University

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MS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1. ADVANCE CERTIFICATE IN DATA SCIENCE FROM IIIT, BANGALORE (YEAR 1)

PROGRAM CURRICULUM
PRE-PROGRAM PREPARATORY CONTENT

DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL

1. Introduction to Excel Taught by one of the most renowned

2. Data Analysis in Excel - I: Functions, data scientists in the country (S.Anand,
Formulae, and Charts CEO, Gramener), this module takes
3. Data Analysis in Excel - II: Pivots and you from a beginner level Excel user
Lookups to an almost professional user.

ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING

1. The CRISP-DM Framework - Business This module covers concepts of the

and Data Understanding CRISP-DM framework for business
2. CRISP-DM Framework - Data problem-solving.
Preparation, Modelling, Evaluation and
Deployment

COURSE 1: DATA TOOLKIT

INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON 2 WEEKS

1. Understanding the upGrad Coding Understanding the upGrad Coding

Console Console Basics of Python Data
2. Basics of Python Structures in Python Control Structure
3. Data Structures in Python and Functions in Python OOP in
4. Control Structure and Functions in Python.
Python
5. OOP in Python

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts

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PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON 2 WEEKS

1. Logic and Syntax Building Learn how to approach and solve

2. Data Structures: Lists, Strings, logical problems using programming.
Dictionaries, and Stacks
3. Time Complexity
4. Searching and Sorting
5. Two Pointers
6. Recursion

PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE 1 WEEK

1. Introduction to NumPy Learn how to manipulate datasets in

2. Introduction to Matplotlib Python using Pandas which is the most
3. Introduction to Pandas powerful library for data preparation
4. Getting and Cleaning Data and analysis.

VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON 1 WEEK

1. Introduction to Data Visualization Humans are visual learners and hence
2. Data Visualisation using Seaborn no task related to data is complete
without visualisation. Learn to plot and
interpret various graphs in Python and
observe how they make data analysis
and drawing insights easier.

IMDB MOVIE ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

1. Problem Statement Reinforce the concepts learnt in data
2. Evaluation Rubric science through this rigorous assign-
3. Final Submission ment involving the past hundred years
4. Solution of movie data.

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts

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EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS 1 WEEK

1. Data Sourcing Learn how to find and analyse the

2. Data Cleaning patterns in the data to draw actionable
3. Univariate Analysis insights.
4. Bivariate Analysis and Multivariate
Analysis

INFERENTIAL STATISTICS 1 WEEK

1. Basics of Probability Build a strong statistical foundation

2. Discrete Probability Distributions and learn how to ‘infer’ insights from a
3. Continuous Probability Distributions huge population using a small sample.
4. Central Limit Theorem

HYPOTHESIS TESTING 1 WEEK

1. Concepts of Hypothesis Testing - I: Null Understand how to formulate and
and Alternate Hypothesis, Making a validate hypotheses for a population
Decision, and Critical Value Method to solve real-life business problems.
2. Concepts of Hypothesis Testing - II:
p-Value Method and Types of Errors
3. Industry Demonstration of Hypothesis
Testing: Two-Sample Mean and
Proprotion Test, A/B Testing

DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL 1 WEEK

1. Database Design Data in companies is definitely not
2. Database Creation in MySQL Workbench stored in excel sheets! Learn the
3. Querying in MySQL fundamentals of database and extract
4. Joins and Set Operations information from RDBMS using the
structured query language.

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts

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CREDIT EDA CASE STUDY 1 WEEK

1. Problem Statement Solve a real industry problem through

2. Evaluation Rubric the concepts learnt in exploratory data
3. Final Submission analysis.
4. Solution

COURSE 2 - MACHINE LEARNING 2 WEEKS

INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND LINEAR REGRESSION

1. Simple Linear Regression Venture into the machine learning

2. Simple Linear Regression in Python community by learning how one
3. Multiple Linear Regression variable can be predicted using
4. Mutliple Linear Regression in Python several other variables through a
5. Industry Relevance of Linear Regression housing dataset where you will predict
the prices of houses based on various
factors.

LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT - BIKE SHARING SYSTEMS 1 WEEK

1. Problem Statement Build a model to understand the
2. Evaluation Rubric factors on which the demand for bike
3. Final Submission sharing systems vary on and help a
4. Solution company optimise its revenue.

LOGISTIC REGRESSION 2 WEEKS

1. Univariate Logistic Regression Learn your first binary classification
2. Multivariate Logistic Regression: Model technique by determining which
Building and Evaluation customers of a telecom operator are
3. Logistic Regression: Industry likely to churn versus who are not to
Applications help the business retain customers.

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts

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UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: CLUSTERING 1 WEEK

1. Introduction to Clustering Learn how to approach open ended

2. K-Means Clustering real world problems using data as a
3. Hierarchical Clustering lever to draw actionable insights.
4. Other Forms of Clustering: K-Mode, K-Prototype,
DB Scan

BUSINESS PROBLEM SOLVING 1 WEEK

1. Introduction to Business Problem Learn how to approach open ended
Solving real waorld problems using data as a
2. Business Problem Solving: Case Study lever to draw actionable insights.
Demonstrations

CLUSTERING ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

1. Problem Statement Apply the machine learning concepts
2. Evaluation Rubric learnt to help an internation NGO
3. Final Submission cluster countries to determine their
4. Solution overall development and plan for
lagging countries.

CASE STUDY: LEAD SCORING 1 WEEK

1. Problem Statement Help the Sales team of your company
2. Evaluation Rubric identify which leads are worth
3. Final Submission pursuing through this classification
4. Solution case study.

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts

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COURSE 3 - 11 WEEKS

DATA SCIENCE GENERALIST - ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING AND STORYTELLING

1. Tree Models • Advanced Regression +

2. Boosting (optional) ML Lab 2: Regression
3. Model Selection & General • Text Analytics & Processing +
ML Techniques Text-Based Predictive Modelling

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING / DEEP LEARNING - MACHINE LEARNING - II

1. TREE MODELS • Advanced Regression Assignment

2. Model Selection & General ML Techniques • Bagging and Boosting
3. Principal Component Analysis • Time Series Analysis
4. Advanced Regression • Telecom Churn Case Study

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - SQL AND NOSQL DATABASES

1. Data Modelling • NoSQL Databases and Best Practices

2. Advanced SQL and Best Practices • Introduction to Big Data and Cloud
3. SQL Assignment: IMDb Movies • Hive and Querying
4. Advanced Excel • Hive Case Study

BUSINESS ANALYTICS - ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING

1. TREE MODELS • Model Selection & General ML

2. Time Series Forecasting Techniques
3. Retail-Giant Sales Forecasting Assignment • Advanced SQL - II
• Advanced Excel

DATA ENGINEERING - DATA ENGINEERING - I

1. Introduction to Big Data (Optional) • Data Ingestion with Apache Sqoop

2. Introduction to Cloud and AWS Setup and Apache Flume
3. Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce • Hive & Querying
Programming • Assignment (Optional)
4. Data Management and Relational Database • Amazon Redshift
Modelling • Introduction to Apache Spark
• Project: ETL Data Pipline

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STUDY ABROAD CURRICULUM
IELTS PREPARATION

• Preparation of IELTS Exam

ACADEMIC ENGLISH

• Language Development
• Academic Writing Skills
• Spoken Academic Communication
• Reading and Listening in Academic Context

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

• Introduction to Research
• Research Sampling

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & RESEARCH

• Introduction to Academic Integrity

• Introduction to Plagiarism
• Plagiarism : Advance Understanding
• Ethical Considerations

ACADEMIC REFERENCING

• Academic Referencing
• Referencing Style Guides

FORMS OF ACADEMIC WRITING

• Different forms of Long Format Writing

• Dissertation or Thesis Writing
• Writing SOPs

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CRITICAL THINKING

• Being a Critical Thinker

• Reasoning Skills
• Persuasion
• Critical Thinking as Life Skill

NETWORKING AND PROFILE BUILDING IN FOREIGN DESTINATION

• Networking
• Profile Building

FINDING JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS

• How to Find Jobs and Internships in Foreign Destinations

IMMIGRATION AND VISA RULES

FINANCING EDUCATION

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MS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
2. MS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FROM CLARK UNIVERSITY, US (YEAR 2)

CORE COURSES
1. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Despite its current and future technological capabilities, the computer still owes its power and
usefulness to people. Business people define the business problems to be solved by the comput-
er. Computer programmers and technicians apply information technology to build information
systems that solve those problems. Systems Analysis and Design is the study of a business prob-
lem domain to recommend improvements and specify the business requirements for the solution
through the specification or construction of a technical, computer based solution.

2. CYBER SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS

Begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of data security both physical and logical. It
continues with dealing with data security standards, the SSL and S-HTTP protocols, data integrity;
data encryption; coding methods; the use of smart cards; assurances of financial transactions,
payment methods of E-business and E-Commerce; medical information security, legal aspects of
information security.

3. CAPSTONE PRACTICUM
Integrates the course work of the MSIT program into a comprehensive application. While in teams
under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an
organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry
trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members
of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the
team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.

4. IT STRATEGY LEADERSHIP
IT Strategy requires a business-driven enterprise IT governance framework and use of day-to-day
best practices. Leaders must ensure that IT investments respond to the most important business
issues and opportunities. The scope of project efforts needs to cover business and IT people
(internal and external), business process improvements and IT factors in a balanced solution. The
velocity of change in most industries today requires companies to periodically defer continuous
improvement efforts in favor of those that genuinely transform the firm dramatically and rapidly to
another state. Such changes are almost always highly leveraged by technology.

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It takes strong leadership and discipline to make it happen? leadership from the executive team
and board, from the CIO and senior IT staff, from key functional managers across the company
who get it and insist on it. The course goal is that you gain understanding of the factors involved
and you start to define what all this means to you and your career.

5. NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

This course addresses both fundamental and advanced concepts in modern data networking and
security. Text, articles, labs and cases focus on understanding, planning, building, and securing
IPv4/IPv6 LAN, WLAN, MAN and WAN environments.

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MSIT
CONCENTRATIONS (CHOOSE ANY 1)

A). CYBER SECURITY CONCENTRATION (CHOOSE 3)

1. SECURITY ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
This course addresses the components required to implement security within the System Develop-
ment Life Cycle (SDLC)). Text, articles and cases focus on how to analyze internal applications,
computing platforms, network infrastructure relative to an enterprise’s operating model to insure
optimized security architecture.

2. DATA MINING WITH SPLUNK

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the standard platform for billions of smart devices that generate
machine log data. Splunk Enterprise can harness and leverage this valuable machine data (which
contains a definitive record of all user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, security
threats, system health, fraudulent activity and more) to provide enterprises valuable business,
operational, and security intelligence. Coursework will cover Business Intelligence key concepts,
Splunk Enterprise architecture and hands-on working sessions requiring students to install Splunk
to complete the exercises (mine machine data, identify data patterns, create Splunk reports,
dashboards, alerts, and applications).

3. CYBER SECURITY ETHICS:TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT

Given the nascent market for Cyber Security and the number of privacy concerns, This course will
identify, review, decompose and discuss new approaches to a number of legislative bills, Laws,
regulations and social concerns that continue to evolve related to cyber security exposure. Cyber
security ethics and privacy have become a top global priority concern with social media service
giants pushing the divide between innovation and privacy protection rights.

4. CYBER SECURITY WARFARE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

This course focus on the managerial aspects of assessing and mitigating the pre-dominant cyber
risks faced by an organization. Topics covered include access control models, info security gover-
nance an IT security program assessment and metrics. Coverage on the foundational and techni-
cal components of information is included to reinforce key concepts. This course will explore the
current threat landscape and provide a strategic approach to securing enterprise assets.

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5. ADVANCED TOPICS: CYBER SECURITY (CAPSTONE)
This core course will provide students more specialized focus areas of Cyber Security as individu-
als and/or small teams that will work with established business projects applying the knowledge
and experience gained during the year in the Graduate Cyber Security Program at Clark Universi-
ty. This course also covers essential practice security architecture standards organizations must
deploy and evolve with today’s cyber security challenges. Many industry control frameworks will
be reviewed and explored across different industries to assist in applying effective an consistent
cyber security controls across enterprise level assets. Topics such as cloud, mobility, identity
blending, social media, Cryptography and Identity & Access Management are explored.

6. CYBER SECURITY POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT

Cyber Security executives must construct security policies aligned with and supportive of the
enterprises’ business model and associated processes. This alignment helps insure that executive
leadership is supportive and all employees within the organization follow the policies. This course
examines the steps required in policy development.

7. SPECIAL TOPICS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This course addresses current or timely topics (in Information Technology) that are in a pilot phase
or are known to be one time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester.

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MSIT
CONCENTRATIONS

B). IT LEADERSHIP CONCENTRATION (CHOOSE 3)

1. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
Enterprise Architecture is the organizing logic for a firms IT infrastructure relative to its business
processes/operating model. This course provides an introduction to EA Planning in support of
Enterprise Strategy and helps the student to develop a solid understanding of the importance of
enterprise architecture design.

2. CIO IN TRAINING
An IT leader’s effectiveness and career trajectory is increasingly based on their ability to impact
the performance of the enterprise’s operating units. This requires business insight, political savvy
and transformational leadership in addition to technology skills. This course, through a variety of
case studies, readings and discussions will “put the student in the CIO’s seat” to develop an
understanding of how IT can be a partner and leader in business transformation.

3. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR & LEADERSHIP

Develops an understanding of concepts, analytical tools and communication skills underlying
behavior in organizations. The course explores the relationship between task accomplishments
and human fulfillment in the context of planned organizational change. Various learning experienc-
es are incorporated, including case studies, simulations, role playing and group discussion. Issues
of public involvement, participatory decision making, employee empowerment and forms of
leadership are also addressed.

4. IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS

This course provides participants with the foundation, techniques and tools to manage each stage
of the project life cycle, working within organizational and cost constraints, setting goals tied
directly to stakeholder needs, getting the most from their project team, and utilizing
state-of-the-art project management tools to get the work done on time and within budget. It
covers all Project Management Knowledge Areas: Integration, Scope Management, Time Man-
agement, Cost Management, Scheduling, Estimating, Risk Management, Contract Management,
Quality Management, and Leadership & Communication, and covers the entire project life-cycle
as well as all Project Management Process groups (Initiating, Planning, and Executing,
Controlling and Closing).

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It also provides an introduction to the principles and practices of project management. A blend of
lecture, discussion and practical application in managing projects and teams this course provides
the students with an optimized learning process and practical application of the technical and
soft-skills learned.

5. SPECIAL TOPICS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This course addresses current or timely topics (in Information Technology) that are in a pilot phase
or are known to be one time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester.

For more details visit:

https://www.clarku.edu/academics/graduate/programs/masters/information-technology/

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MSIT
ELECTIVES
1. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Despite its current and future technological capabilities, the computer still owes its power and
usefulness to people. Business people define the business problems to be solved by the
computer. Computer programmers and technicians apply information technology to build informa-
tion systems that solve those problems. Systems Analysis and Design is the study of a business
problem domain to recommend improvements and specify the business requirements for the
solution through the specification or construction of a technical, computer based solution.

2. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN IT
A critical part of any IT leader’s responsibility is to remain current with the overall trends and
issues within the industry in order to understand their potential impact on their organization and
their own careers. This course is intended for new MSIT students and will provide an overview of
current industry trends and issues.

3. CYBER SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS

Begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of data security both physical and logical. It
continues with dealing with data security standards, the SSL and S-HTTP protocols, data integrity;
data encryption; coding methods; the use of smart cards; assurances of financial transactions,
payment methods of E-business and E-Commerce; medical information security, legal aspects of
information security.

4. HEALTH DATA AND RECORD SYSTEMS

There have been dramatic advances in health data technologies as well as exponential growth in
the amount of data being produced. This course aims to provide an overview of the healthcare
data landscape including the history of the digital healthcare industry and supporting IT infrastruc-
ture, a brief overview of the legislation responsible for shaping the current state and path
forward, and a deep dive into the almost limitless options for tackling and analyzing health data.
Many efficiencies and opportunities are on the horizon, from enhancements in quality of care,
clinical decision making, population health, and economies of scale. In this course, students will
gain deep understanding of how to leverage a multitude of disparate data sources, with Big Data
methods, in order to have a positive impact on healthcare.

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5. IT STRATEGY LEADERSHIP
IT Strategy requires a business-driven enterprise IT governance framework and use of day-to-day
best practices. Leaders must ensure that IT investments respond to the most important business
issues and opportunities. The scope of project efforts needs to cover business and IT people
(internal and external), business process improvements and IT factors in a balanced solution. The
velocity of change in most industries today requires companies to periodically defer continuous
improvement efforts in favor of those that genuinely transform the firm dramatically and rapidly to
another state. Such changes are almost always highly leveraged by technology. It takes strong
leadership and discipline to make it happen? leadership from the executive team and board, from
the CIO and senior IT staff, from key functional managers across the company who get it and
insist on it. The course goal is that you gain understanding of the factors involved and you start to
define what all this means to you and your career.

6. HEALTH INFORMATICS
Health informatics in today’s healthcare industry is driven by the need to improve quality and
efficiency through the use of big data, business intelligence and performance measurement and
improvement. This course will approach practical applications of health informatics from many
perspectives within the healthcare industry (i.e. physicians, hospitals, insurers, government agen-
cies, research institutions, pharma). Students will gain a detailed understanding of how to conduct
research and identify trends in health records, evaluate healthcare operations and understand
effective measurement of healthcare financial performance. Additionally, students will explore
key trends in health care technology driven by response to policy changes in the United States,
such as the expansion of electronic health record systems.

7. AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY

Whether you work at a startup (breaking into a market) or a large corporation (attempting to main-
tain market share), your customers demand delivery of frequent innovations that make their user
experience better and differentiate your products from the growing competition. To ensure this,
organizations need to embrace a new way of developing these strategic features.

Continuing the project management journey, this course builds on the foundations gained in the
Project Management Fundamentals course and extends them to the Lean Agile delivery methodol-
ogy. By acknowledging that delivery methodologies are not ‘one size fits all’, we become versed
in the one that meets the challenges faced by today’s technology innovators. This is the basis on
which we can layer the progressive techniques found in Lean Startup and the Scaled Agile Frame-
work.

As a project leader, you’ll investigate new roles, responsibilities, checkpoints (ceremonies), and
metrics. Our course goals are accomplished through reading, homework assignments, in-class
discussions, group presentations and an agile project simulation.

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8. CYBER SECURITY: INFORMATION ASSURANCE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

This course covers what an Enterprise Information Assurance (aka Information Security or Cyber
Security) Program should include regarding strategic goals and objectives, roadmap planning,
people, process, structure and technology capabilities, services and competencies. A view
through a CISO’s eyes in developing, growing, establishing talent management, investment
planning and on-going compliance management for organizational cyber security preparedness.

9. CYBER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND DELIVERY

This course covers the IT operations side of cyber security from a daily management responsibili-
ty. Highlighting operational challenges and solution approaches to maturing cyber security tech-
nology practices. Topics such as solution engineering, Incident Response, forensics, chain of
custody, integration, Project delivery with other key IT Infrastructure, Systems, Databases and
Applications are explored. This elective course also covers essential cyber safe practices to begin
addressing significant weaknesses in vendor and organizational services/applications today that
cyber attackers use as easy gateways into breaching organizations. Both Product and Application
Development lifecycles are explored including agile methods.

10. LEAN PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

This course will lead students through the building blocks of a progressive framework, which
enables the benefits of an agile development methodology at the enterprise level. In doing so, the
opportunity to implement the culture of a learning organization is supplemented with Lean Startup
techniques like Design Thinking. Together, the enterprise is better able to compete with the
disruptive, nimble challengers popping up in their marketplace.

11. DESIGN THINKING APPROACH TO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Creating a product or service that will disrupt an industry is every entrepreneur’s vision. Providing
next level innovative features that allow continued dominance in a market is every large corpora-
tion’s goal. Both of these executive aspirations are predicated on a culture of continuous innova-
tion. Design Thinking is its fuel. Utilizing the design firm IDEO’s texts, we’ll study their process for
innovation and discover the strategies that made them a Silicon Valley success story. Through
readings, homework assignments, presentations and classroom discussions, we’ll explore their
ideas for team-work, the deep-dive, observational based learning, and problem statements.

Having traversed the project management track, you’ve built an understanding of the technical
product delivery framework. You’ve mastered advanced agile skills and absorbed the concepts of
the learning organization. Now with Design Thinking Approach to Product Development, you’ll
finally add the critical processes for innovation that will feed the system with customer pleasing
features.

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12. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Businesses today are constantly changing, becoming more and more complex. Organizations,
private and public, are under pressures forcing them to respond quickly to change and to be
innovative in the way they operate. This drives them to be more agile and to make frequent and
quick strategic, tactical, and operational decisions — decisions that often require considerable
amounts of relevant data, information and knowledge. Processing these information assets, in the
framework of the needed decisions, is what business intelligence is all about. This course address-
es BI solutions which deliver computerized support for managerial decision making.

13. ENTERPRISE DATA ARCHITECTURES

Hadoop, the open source framework supporting extremely large data sets, has been evolving
towards becoming a more integrated component of an enterprise’s overall IT architecture. This
course is intended to provide a pragmatic understanding of Hadoop and how it’s evolution
enables an enterprise to make more effective use of all forms of data.

14. CYBER SECURITY POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT

Cyber Security executives must construct security policies aligned with and supportive of the
enterprises’ business model and associated processes. This alignment helps insure that executive
leadership is supportive and all employees within the organization follow the policies. This course
examines the steps required in policy development.

15. CAPSTONE PRACTICUM

Integrates the course work of the MSIT program into a comprehensive application. While in teams
under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an
organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry
trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members
of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the
team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.

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MEET
THE CLASS
INDUSTRIES
OUR LEARNERS COME FROM
15% Others

1% Finance
1% Manufacturing
1% Telecom
1% Education

1% Consulting

57% IT
3% Retail

5% E-commerce

5% Healthcare

10% BFSI

WORK EXPERIENCE (IN YEARS)

15% 6.1-9 years
11% 9.1-12 years

21% 3.1-6 years

33% 0-3 years

20% 12.1+ years

A few of the companies our students are from: Accenture, Amazon, Cognizant, Deloitte, Infosys, Microsoft, Wipro, EY,
CitiBank, Cisco, Thomson Reuters

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HEAR FROM
OUR LEARNERS (IIITB)

Kunwar Alok, Experience: 15+ Years

“You may not believe but I have never done coding in my life. I did it during this program and
was thrilled to see the outcomes coming out of those codes. Just the way I used to get happy
after solving a good (tough) math problems during my school age. Thanks to upGrad for doing
a great service to people like us who at the age of 43 can dream to study with budding talents
around.”

Sachin Aggarwal, Experience: 18+ Years

“Learning with IIITB and upGrad has been an experience like no other. Being an online
program, you have your worries about how the program and teaching methods will be. My
favourite part about the learning experience has been programming through well designed
and thoughtful content shared by IIITB professors and industry experts on upGrad platforms.
Kudos to upGrad.”

Savita Upadhaya, Experience: 4 Years

“It has been amazing journey with upGrad till now. Starting with their Program material to Live
sessions to Mentor support helps one to always be on track and progress efficiently with Data
Science program. My sincere Thanks to the entire team of upGrad. And Profs of IIITB to show
me the path and direction for my dream to become a Data Analyst.”

Sidharth Mahapatra, Experience: 3 Years

“The concepts of R programming and Machine Learning will be taught by Prof. Chandrasekhar
Ramanathan and Prof. G Srinivasaraghavan respectively. Both of them have been listed in top
twenty prominent data science academicians list published by Analytics India Magazine. So
you need not worry about quality of teaching in this program.”

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Tuhin Pal, Experience: 5 Years

“I appreciate the platform upGrad how they have arranged the modules and the assignments
are quality ones. You will relish your college days again as the exams are felt like semester
ones, you can’t talk to anybody . Modules are locked till you complete the previous one so it
feels like clearing a semester and going to the next one.”

Harkirat Dhillon, Experience: 8 Years

“A dedicated regimen for studying the program and keep learning is the key to be successful
and pass the program. This program will help build a strong foundation for successful
transition to data science. Additionally, participating in hackathons and Kaggle competitions to
solve real world problems will definitely give you an edge and land a job if one is willing to
work hard.”

Shravani Shahapure, Experience: 16 Years

“For someone who really wants to pursue career in the field of data science, it is worth to opt
for the complete program by IIIT B and upGrad. Data science is experimental science. We
need to develop right kind of thinking ability to approach to the problems. And to develop this
ability, we need experts direction. Knowing tools won’t solve the problems always, we need to
use them wisely and correctly. IIITB and upGrad‘s online program on data science gives this
opportunity and develop student for their future as they provide best professors, thought
provoking assignments and case studies .”

Sagar Tekwani, Experience: 2 Years

“A very well-structured and well-balanced program content which you won’t get in other
programs/nano-degrees. Being a beginner in DS, I found the structure of Executive PG
Programme from IIITB and upGrad most helpful. They even teach you most of the prerequisites
with prep sessions before you even start the program. Being a working professional, it was
neither too difficult nor too easy to keep up with the pace of the program.”

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UPGRAD ABROAD
ONSHORE ALUMNI BENEFITS
Our support does not end up once you board a flight to your study destination but also continues
in the University you join. Once you reach the University, you will be provided following additional
support by upGrad abroad:

• upGradabroad Onshore Buddy

Entering a foreign land can be a blissful experience when one knows that someone is always
there to assist in attuning to the culture and other important aspects related to the country.
With upGradabroad courses, the students will be entitled to one such service which is onshore
upGradabroad buddy.
As the name suggests, the onshore upGradabroad buddy will extend the support in many
ways like helping them with the orientation session, arranging the city tours, guiding you with
the local visa process, finding the accommodations, city registration, opening a bank account,
and other mandatory services.
Not only this, the onshore buddy will organize insightful sessions on destination country
cultures so that the students can easily get along with the local students at the university. The
onshore buddy will extend his support in finding part-time work at the university or outside
University (if allowed) and providing guidance on how to apply for a post-study work visa /
OPT (optional practical training).

• Extended upGrad Career Services

There are also extended career services offered by upGradabraod and that include building a
strong resume, organizing mock interviews, and providing guidance on the best practices to
find onshore jobs.

• Alumni Portal
As an upGradabroad student, the students are entitled to access the Alumni portal where they
can build a professional network with other upGradabroad Alumni for assimilating information
related to finding jobs or social integration.

• upGrad Alumni Discount

Under the upGrad Alumni discount, the students can avail of great discounts on the courses
that they would like to take up in the future which can help them in upskilling their careers and
suit their resume for jobs abroad.

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 ADMISSION
PROCESS
PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT
10 months Online | 12 months On-Campus in United States

PROGRAM FEE
Online Course Fee - INR 3,00,000 (incl. of all taxes)
On-Campus at Clark University
- Indicative Tuition Fees - USD 17,052
- Indicative Cost of Living - USD 19,330

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
• Applicants with 4 year bachelor’s degree need to have minimum 66% marks.
Maximum backlogs (ATKTs) accepted will be 6.
• Applicants with 3 year bachelor’s degree need to have minimum 60% marks.
Maximum backlogs (ATKTs) accepted will be 4.
• A 4-year Undergraduate degree is preferred. However, if a learner has completed 3 years of
Undergraduate, then the awarding University must be NAAC A or A+ (in year 2019/ 2020/2021 and
preferably from a Science background i.e. BCA/B.Sc/BIT. If an applicant is coming fromcany other
stream (Business, Humanities etc) the applicant needs to have substantial work experience in relevant
area of application.

PROGRAM START DATES

Please refer to the website for program start dates.

SELECTION PROCESS

Step 1: Complete Step 2: Get Shortlisted & Received your Step 3: Block your Seat & Begin the
Application Form offer Letter Prep Course
Fill out an application Our admissions committee will review your Block your seat with a payment of INR
form Online profile. Upon qualifying, an offer letter will 25,000 to enroll on the programme.
be sent to you. Begin with your Prep course and start
your Information Technology journey!

For further details, contact:

[email protected] | 1800-210-2020

upGrad Education Private Limited

Nishuvi, 75, Dr. Annie Besant Road Worli, Mumbai - 400018
[email protected] | 1800-210-2020