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New Science Master's Education Book
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has published a broad and comprehensive guide to best practices, activities and processes required to create a professional master’s program which draws on the experiences of participants in the CGS Professional Master’s Initiative. This book provides essential advice for graduate deans, universities and faculty on the development of collaborative degrees as well as interaction with business, industry and government to devise programs that respond to regional employer needs. The book is available from CGS by clicking here.
Updated Science Master's Education Tables and Graphs Now Available
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Report Outlines Differences Between Traditional and Professional Master's Programs
A report published by the American Institute of Physics entitled "Programs that Match Every Interest - Master’s Degrees in Physics" updates the discussion about differences between professional masters programs and traditional academic masters programs. Read the entire article here.
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Featured Master's Program
Thursday, September 2nd
University of Pittsburgh
Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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Category:
Information Sciences
Contact:
Mr. Terrance Kizina
Director of Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aid
Information Science and Telecommunication
SIS 510
Phone: 412-624-3988
Fax: 412-672-9435
Send Email to Mr. Kizina
Master's Program Web Site:
http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/
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Program Description
Connecting people, information and technology is at the heart of the School's mission. The Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) program builds on that mission by preparing students to assume professional responsibilities as system analysts and designers, database developers and managers, information security experts, web designers, geoinformaticists, information retrieval specialists, and other information-related specialists.

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