IT professionals need to rise up to the
challenges of managing new IT and market trends such as
IT outsourcing and offshoring, IT entrepreneurships, and
commercialisations and management of innovative and
complex IT products and services. The concurrent
programme combining Bachelor of Computing (School of
Computing) and Masters of Management (School of
Business) provides a multi-disciplinary platform for
students to marry strong technical computing skills with
the requisite management, communications, and marketing
skills to respond effectively to these challenges.
In this programme, students of School of
Computing will take management courses from School of
Business in addition to their usual pursuit of Bachelor
of Computing degree. These management courses consist of
20 management and leadership modules drawn from BBA, MBA
and PhD curricula. Thanks to the broad-base nature of
NUS curriculum structure, such double focuses may be
completed within five years. The programme is
particularly attractive to students pursuing Bachelor of
Computing degrees in Information Systems or E-Commerce,
as the combined curricula provide an enriching education
in management of both human resources and information
technology.
Following on from this concurrent programme is an European Master in International Management (MIM ), which are eligible to students after completing this concurrent programme. Through this route, students can therefore get three degrees: Bachelor + MSc + MIM in 5.5 to 6 years. MIM requires students to spend half year in each of two top European management schools. About a quarter of MIM students end up as management consultants, many with the prominent corporate members of CEMS (Community of European Management Schools). School of Business is offering a number of scholarships for students to go to Europe . Detailed information about MIM can be found in http://bba.nus.edu/cems.htm . Applications are welcome anytime, and
undergraduate students are admitted
year-round. Details on application procedure for
the concurrent MSc(Mgt) programme can be found at:
http://bschool.nus.edu.sg/mscmgt/aboutmsc.htm
The structure for the concurrent MSc(Mgt) programme
is as follows:
40-MC Domain
Knowledge Requirements (DKR) segment:
A student must complete the following 10 modules, or
40 MCs, chosen from modules currently offered in the Minor
in Business programme:
- 4 Level-1000 modules or their
equivalents;
- 4 Level-2000 modules or their
equivalents; and
- 2 Level-3000 modules: 1 module, or
its equivalent, from each of 2 different areas out of
those available.
For details on modules listed under the Minor in
Business, please refer to: http://bschool.nus.edu.sg/bba/minor.htm
For transitional arrangements (for cohorts matriculated before 2007), students who are
currently enrolled in the MSc (Mgt) programme can also
do the following:
- 5 Level-1000 modules or their
equivalents;
- 3 Level-2000 modules or their
equivalents; and
- 2 Level-3000 modules: 1 module, or
its equivalent, from each of 2 different areas out of
those available.
40-MC MSc Requirements (MSR) segment :
A student must complete 40 MCs from the modules
below:
- at most 2 Level-4000
modules chosen from any offered by the School of
Business, or equivalent modules;
- at least 3 Level-5000/6000
research-type coursework modules chosen from any
offered by the School of Business ; and
- at most 5 MBA-type
modules chosen from any offered by the School of
Business , which had not been covered by the student
for the DKR segment.
The key features of the programme are listed below:
School of Computing students use the
MCs from breadth requirements and unrestricted electives
(UEM) as well as equivalent modules from the B.Comp.
(Hons.) programme requirements to meet the 40-MC Domain
Knowledge Requirements (DKR) segment.
School of Computing students in the
B.Comp. (Hons.) (Information Systems) and B.Comp.
(Hons.) (E-Commerce) degree programmes are deemed to
have satisfied item (1) of the MSR segment as their
degree requirements include 16 MCs of level-4000 modules
offered by the Information Systems Department. These
modules are business and IT related.
School of Computing students are
allowed to partially meet item (3) of the MSR segment by
taking up to 2 MBA-type equivalent coursework modules
offered by the Information Systems Department listed
below:
• CS5251 Integration of IS and Business
• CS5253 Knowledge Systems and Management in
Organizations
These two graduate modules cannot be
used to satisfy the unrestricted electives of B.Comp.
requirements should students discontinue the concurrent
programme.
School of Computing students must meet
all the other requirements for admission, continuation
in the programme and the award of the concurrent
programme.
School of Computing students who have
completed the MSc(Mgt) programme, as well as their
B.Comp. honours programme will be awarded two degrees
depending on their honours classification for their
bachelor programme.
Please refer to:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/undergradprog/concurrentprog_summary.htm for
the module requirements, and computation of CAP, for the
following concurrent CAP, for the following concurrent
programmes: The tables below give the 2005 BComp(Hons.)
curricula.
Degree Classification
The MSc(Mgt) degree will be awarded to students who
have
• earned at least a Second Class Lower division
in the B.Comp.(Hons.) degree and
• maintained a CAP of 3.5 in the modules
counting towards the MSc(Mgt) requirement.
Further Enquiry
Please submit your enquiry to bcomp@comp.nus.edu.sg. |
