IS Cohort 2024/2025

Overview

The four-year IS programme provides a stimulating education that equips students with the ability to integrate infocomm technology fundamentals with domain expertise to develop innovative solutions for organisations. Through projects and case studies that are aligned with industry best practices, students will develop an in-depth understanding of the strategic exploitation of infocomm technology in emerging organisational forms. Students become proficient in the design and development of infocomm solutions and the management of infocomm projects. Such skills are vital in helping students develop careers that are being emphasised in the National Infocomm Media 2025 masterplan, such as techno-strategist, solution architect, and infocomm project manager. Students can also take a specialisation in Digital Product and Platform Management, Financial Technology or Artificial Intelligence (AI) System Solutioning.

IS Industrial Experience Requirement (IER)

Students may fulfill the Industrial Experience Requirement via the following 3 options: (A) Take any internship programmes that are at least 12 units and of at least 6 months continuous duration:
  • CP3880 Advanced Technology Attachment Programme; or
  • IS4010 Digital Transformation Leadership Programme; or
  • Relevant internship related NOC courses
(B) Take two separate 3-month internships consisting of CP3200 Internship (6 units) and CP3202 Internship II (6 units) (C) Take a single 3-month internship consisting of CP3200 Internship (6 units) and any 6 units of courses chosen from the given elective list below. These courses cannot be used to double-count as programme electives or specialisation courses.
  • CP3201 Industry Seminar (2 units)
  • CS4352 Industry Seminar in Cybersecurity (2 units)
  • IS4236 Cloud Services and Infrastructure Management (4 units)
  • IS4243 Digital Transformation Consulting (4 units)
  • IS4301 Agile IT with DevOps (4 units) (4 units)
Students with Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.00 or higher may opt to replace Industrial Experience Requirement by CP4101 B.Comp. Dissertation. Students who aim for Honours (Highest Distinction) must pass the CP4101. Students with GPA of 4.00 or higher after completing at least 70% (i.e. 112 units) of the total unit requirement for the degree programme may opt to replace the Industrial Experience Requirement by CP4101 (12 units). Note that the CP4101 project selection process takes place one semester ahead of the semester in which the students commence CP4101. Thus the students can tentatively select CP4101 projects; but the condition “GPA of 4.00 or higher after completing at least 70% (112 units) of the total Unit requirement for the degree programme” must be satisfied before they can commence CP4101 in lieu of IS4010.

NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) – Information Systems

Students who attended NOC Programme may:

  • count ETP3202L Innovation & Enterprise Case Study and Analysis (8 units) partially in lieu of CP4101 B.Comp Dissertation (8 out of 12 units).
  • count ETP3203L Innovation & Enterprise Internship Practicum (8 units) partially in lieu of CP4101 BComp Dissertation (4 out of 12 units). The remaining 4 units can be used to meet the total unit requirement of Programme Electives at level-3000.  ETP3203L is not mapped to any specific course in IS/BZA programme.
  • count ETP3206L Innovation & Enterprise Internship (12 out of 16 units) towards Industrial Experience Requirement (i.e. IS4010 Digital Transformation Leadership Programme). The remaining 4 units will count as unrestricted electives.

Summary of degree requirements for BComp (Information Systems)

CoursesUnitsSubtotals
COMMON CURRCULUM REQUIREMENTS  1 40
University Level Requirements: 6 University Pillars24 
Digital Literacy — CS1010J Programming Methodology4 
Critique and Expression — GEX%4 
Cultures and Connections — GEC%4 
Data Literacy —  BT1101 Introduction to Business Analytics4 
Singapore Studies — GES%4 
Communities and Engagement —  GEN%4 
Computing Ethics4 
IS1108 Digital and AI Ethics (old: Digital Ethics and Data Privacy)4 

Interdisciplinary & Cross-Disciplinary Education 

Comprises of Interdisciplinary (ID) Courses and Cross-disciplinary (CD) Courses

Students are required to take 12 units from the above course with at least two ID courses and no more than one CD course to satisfy the 12 units required in the group.

12 

PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS 

Note that least 80% of the unit requirements in a Bachelor programme’s major (i.e. Programme Requirements) must be at level 1000 to 4000.  

 80
Core Courses60 
BT2102 Database Management and Visualization or CS2102 Database Systems4 
CS2030 Programming Methodology II4 
CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms4 
IS2101 Business and Technical Communication 3
4
 
IS2102 Requirements Analysis for Business IT Systems (old title: Enterprise Systems Architecture and Design)
4
 
IS2103 Enterprise Systems Server-side Design and Development or IS2108 Full-stack Software Engineering for AI Solutions I4 
IS3103 Digital Transformation and Leadership Communication
4
 
IS3106 Enterprise Systems Interface Design and Development or IS3108 Full-stack Software Engineering for AI Solutions II4 
CP4101 B.Comp Dissertation or Industrial Experience Requirement12 
IS4103 Information Systems Capstone Project or IS4108 AI Solutioning Capstone Project8 
MA1312 Calculus with Applications or
MA1521 Calculus for Computing 4 or
MA2002 Calculus
4
 
ST2334 Probability and Statistics 5
4
 
Programme Electives
Complete 5 Information Systems programme electives with at least 3 courses at Level-4000		20 

Digital Business

  • IS3150 Digital Media Marketing
  • IS3240 Digital Platform Strategy and Architecture
  • IS4151 AIoT Solutions and Development
  • IS4262 Digital Product Management

Financial Technology

  • IS4226 Systematic Trading Strategies and Systems
  • IS4228 Information Technologies in Financial Services
  • IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • IS4303 IT-Mediated Financial Solutions and Platforms

IT Solutioning

  • CS2105 Introduction to Computer Networks
  • BT3017 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
  • CS3240 Interaction Design
  • CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • IS3107 Data Engineering
  • IS3221 ERP Systems with Analytics Solutions
  • BT4014 Analytics Driven Design of Adaptive Systems
  • BT4221 Advanced Analytics with Big Data Technologies
  • IS4100 IT Project Management
  • IS4234 Governance, Regulation, and Compliance Technology
  • IS4236 Cloud Services and Infrastructure Management
  • IS4243 Digital Transformation Consulting
  • IS4246 Smart Systems and AI Governance
  • IS4248 Digital Business and the Metaverse
  • IS4250 IT-enabled Healthcare Solutioning
  • IS4301 Agile IT with DevOps

IT Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • CP3100 Information Systems and Analytics Research Methodology
  • IS2109 AI and Machine Learning Techniques I
  • IS3109 AI and Machine Learning Techniques II
  • IS3251 Principles of Technology Entrepreneurship
  • IS4152 Affective Computing
  • IS4241 Social Media Network Analysis
  • IS4242 Intelligent Systems and Techniques
  • IS4261 Designing AI-driven Business Innovations
  • IS4400 Human-AI Interaction
  • IS4401 Generative AI and Business Applications
  • IS4402 Machine Learning with Unstructured Data

IT Security and Legal Aspects

  • CS2107 Introduction to Information Security
  • IFS4101 Legal Aspects of Information Security
  • IS4231 Information Security Management
  • IS4233 Legal Aspects of Information Technology
  • IS4238 Strategic Cybersecurity
All courses are 4 units each 
UNRESTRICTED ELECTIVES 6 
40
Grand Total 160
Footnotes: 1 Students can refer to:https://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/academic-information-policies/undergraduate-students/general-education/for-students-admitted-from-AY2021-22 for the requirements for University Level Requirements. Two programme requirements are used to satisfy the new university level requirements, specifically BT1101 will satisfy the Data Literacy pillar and CS1010J will satisfy the Digital Literacy pillar. 2 CS2102 has a pre-requisite for CS1231 Discrete Structures. Students who wish to read CS2102 can read CS1231 as an unrestricted elective course. 3 Taught by the Centre for English Language Communication. 4 MA1521 to be chosen if student wants to keep the option of switching to Computer Science stream. Mathematics Department will still mount MA1312 in Semester 2, AY2025-26. 5 If a student has taken (ST2131 or MA2216 or MA2116T or MA2116) and ST2132, then the student does not need to take ST2334. 6 Students are encouraged to use their unrestricted electives to take courses that will build up their business domain knowledge. Having a strong knowledge of a business domain will provide IS graduates a favorable advantage in employment opportunity in the industry.

Information Systems Specialisations

Students may choose to read one or more specialisations for the BComp (Information Systems) programme. In the case of common courses between these specialisations, the extent of double counting should be no more than 8 units among the specialisations. To ensure academic integrity of NUS specialisations, at least 60% of the Specialisation requirements to be earned from courses read at NUS. Note that at least 60% of the Unit requirements in a Bachelor programme’s specialisation, must be at level 1000 to 4000.

Some of the courses require pre-requisites from outside this list. Students must have the pre-requisites to take them.

(A) Digital Product and Platform Management Specialisation

To be awarded the Digital Product and Platform Management, students must pass 20 units (5 courses) from the prescribed list below:

  • IS3150 Digital Media Marketing
  • IS3240 Digital Platform Strategy and Architecture
  • IS4100 IT Project Management
  • IS4233 Legal Aspects of Information Technology
  • IS4234 Governance, Regulation, and Compliance Technology
  • IS4236 Cloud Services and Infrastructure Management
  • IS4241 Social Media Network Analysis
  • IS4243 Information Systems Consulting
  • IS4250 IT-enabled Healthcare Solutioning
  • IS4261 Designing AI-driven Business Innovations
  • IS4262 Digital Product Management
  • IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

(B) Financial Technology Specialisation

To be awarded the Financial Technology Specialisation, students must students must pass 20 units (5 courses) from the prescribed list below:

  • BT4014 Analytics Driven Design of Adaptive Systems
  • IS3107 Data Engineering
  • IS4226 Systematic Trading Strategies and Systems
  • IS4228 Information Technologies in Financial Services
  • IS4233 Legal Aspects of Information Technology
  • IS4234 Governance, Regulation, and Compliance Technology
  • IS4242 Intelligent Systems and Techniques
  • IS4246 Smart Systems and AI Governance
  • IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • IS4303 IT-Mediated Financial Solutions and Platforms

(C) Artificial Intelligence (AI) System Solutioning Specialisation

To be awarded the Artificial Intelligence (AI) System Solutioning Specialisation, students must must pass 20 units (5 courses) from the prescribed list below:

  • BT3017 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
  • BT4014 Analytics Driven Design of Adaptive Systems
  • BT4221 Advanced Analytics with Big Data Technologies 
  • IS2109 AI and Machine Learning Techniques I
  • IS3107 Data Engineering
  • IS3109 AI and Machine Learning Techniques II
  • IS4151 AIoT Solutions and Development
  • IS4236 Cloud Services and Infrastructure Management
  • IS4242 Intelligent Systems and Techniques
  • IS4243 Information Systems Consulting
  • IS4246 Smart Systems and AI Governance
  • IS4302 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • IS4400 Human-AI Interaction
  • IS4401 Generative AI and Business Applications
  • IS4402 Machine Learning with Unstructured Data