Fast-Track Programmes
SIS Bachelors-CMU Masters Fast-Track Programme
Fast-Track moving forward quickly....
Our first 3 students have completed their term at Carnegie Mellon. They have survived the cold, a week trip to New York city and come out with great success. The even managed to cook a dinner for the program coordinator during a visit to CMU. All three will be starting the Master of Information Systems Management program at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz school in August.
Shirley LEOW, DU Yanchao and HUANG Liang at their apartment in Pittsburgh
with SIS Lecturer Kevin STEPPE.
 Prof Randy WEINBERG Information Systems Programme Director College of Humanities & Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University |
It was a delight to have the first three SMU - CMU fast trackers with us during the spring semester of 2007 as they finished the requirements for their BSc degrees. Their course work at SMU prepared them well for the demands of the Carnegie Mellon curriculum. They thrived nicely in CMU courses and I'm confident they will be very successful in their Master's degree studies and beyond. It was also great to get to know these students better as individuals. We did a number of things together, including a visit to the world-class Pittsburgh Glass Center, where we observed some amazing glass blowing demonstrations, and made our own glass flowers. |
We have 2 third year students who will be going to CMU in January. Additionally several in-progress students applied for the National Infocomm Scholarship and are completing company interviews. Those selected will add to the pair heading to Pittsburgh in January.
Additionally we have 4 fast-track students who have just completed their first year at SMU. This is our first batch to commence their studies as fast-track students so we are eagerly observing their great success now and to come.
Entering students are going through interviews now and we hope to get even more students into the programme!
More information on SMU - Carnegie Mellon Fast Track Programme
Expanded Bachelors - Post-Graduate Fast-track Options
New SMU BSc (ISM) - MITB (Financial Services) Fast Track
Our brand new Masters programme offering the Master of IT in Business (Financial Services) degree will begin this coming August! This programme targets at training technology and operations professionals for the financial services industry. For a start, the curriculum will focus mainly on retail and wholesale banking.
The programme will equip students with financial industry knowledge and skills related to:
Business processes
IT applications and solutions
Management of technology investment, people, projects and vendors
Linkage of technology to business processes to business outcome
Two of our very own SIS undergraduates, Daniel GOH and Melvin LENG, will embark on their Bachelors-Masters fast-track journey in this programme this coming August. Let us wish them a fruitful learning experience!
 Daniel GOH |
 Melvin LENG |
New SMU BSc (ISM) - MSc (Information Systems) Fast Track
SIS is planning to introduce a Master of Science in Information Systems degree. The new degree program is likely to be launched in the 2007/8 academic year.
The M.Sc. (Information Systems) degree is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in the specializations of data management and information retrieval, information security, and intelligent decision support systems.
This program is ideal for:
- Candidates who aspire to an IT professional career, such as IT consultant, IT architect, IT project manager, instructors.
- Candidates who plan to work in research and development, or product innovation.
- Candidates who wish to prepare for Ph.D. studies.
Selected students in the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) program will have the option of fast-tracking through the M.Sc. degree, by double-counting modules from the M.Sc. curriculum to satisfy the elective requirements of the B.Sc. degree. The entire B.Sc.-M.Sc. programs can be completed in 4 to 4.5 years.
Graduates of the M.Sc. program may be admitted to the Ph.D. in Information Systems program. They will be deemed to have satisfied the coursework requirements of the Ph.D., and thus will proceed directly to the thesis research.
