Requirements

Students to be admitted into the Information Systems Certificate must hold an undergraduate degree and have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher. Candidates must submit a transcript of their undergraduate degree and an essay. Students can apply to transfer up to 3 credits of graduate course work (that has not counted toward another degree) into the IS Graduate Certificate. While a course may be waived due to substantial repetition of course content, the total of 15 credits in course work must still be acquired. The IS Certificate Graduate Coordinator must approve transfer credits after assessing whether they are appropriate as well as assess proposed waivers and substitution courses on the program of study.

Before or upon completion of the IS Graduate Certificate, students may apply for the MS Information Systems (all courses are both on campus and online) or the MS Spatial Informatics degree (online only). Students may transfer from the IS Graduate Certificate only those courses in which they received a grade of B or higher. If aspiring to both credentials, it is typically less work to apply for both graduate programs at the same time when initially applying to grad school.