| MSMIS Admissions Deadlines |
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| U.S.
APPLICANTS |
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| Admission
Semester |
Application
Deadline |
| Fall: August –
December |
July
1 |
| Spring:
January – May |
November
1 |
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| INTERNATIONAL
APPLICANTS* |
| Admission Semester |
Application Deadline |
| Fall: August –
December |
March 1
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Spring:
January - May
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August 1
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Applicants are
required to submit a completed OSU Graduate College application (may be
completed online) with official transcripts of academic degrees to the Graduate
College. International applicants must also supply the official results of the
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), and a financial affidavit.
Applicants are also
required to submit a program application packet to the M.S. in MIS (may be completed online ). Three
letters of recommendation along with official Graduate Management Admissions
Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, a goals statement, and
any previous MIS experience should be sent directly to the Director of the M.S.
in MIS.
- The admission standards for the M.S. in MIS suggests a minimum of 550 on the GMAT, or 1200 on the GRE (since October, 2002), or 1900 on the GRE (prior to October, 2002); a minimum 3.0 overall GPA average for the bachelor’s degree; and a minimum 3.25 GPA average in the major area. Exceptions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
International students must submit a minimum TOEFL score of 233 (or 575).
- Each student, upon admission to the program, will receive individual academic counseling as to undergraduate deficiencies, if any. All students, regardless of the optionselected, are expected to have completed at least six hours of computer programming classes, including Visual Basic and Java or C++. These requirements should be met before a student undertakes the M.S. in MIS.
Knowledge prerequisites for the M.S. in MIS include areas shown in Table 1 and may be satisfied by prior coursework, industry experience, or a combination of courses and experience. Any deficiencies among these can be remedied by the class or classes shown in Table 1. A student must complete any classes necessary for him/her to remedydeficiencies before the M.S. degree will be issued, but not necessarily before he/she may begin taking courses required for the degree. A student may take a course for the degree as long as he/she has met the prerequisites for the particular course. For example, a student may take the database class before or concurrently with a class needed to eliminate a deficiency in finance. A student may not, however, take the class on Enterprise Resource Planning before completing the financial and managerial accounting prerequisites for the program.
- The counseling of each student will result in a Plan of Study and a list of classes necessary for that student to remedy any deficiencies.
- Classes for this degree are offered at the OSU Tulsa and OSU Stillwater campuses, and also through Distance Learning.
Table 1. Knowledge Prerequisites for the M.S. in MIS and Some Suggested Academic
Alternatives for Meeting Them:
| Knowledge Prerequisite |
Suggested Alternatives for Meeting
the Stated Prerequisite
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| 1. Financial Accounting Concepts
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ACCT 5183 (Financial Accounting)
or ACCT 2103
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| 2. Programming Capabilities
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Java or C++; and Visual BASIC or C
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| 3. Organizational Behavior and
Management/Policy
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MGMT 5113 or (MGMT 3123 and BUSAD
3513)
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| 4. Quantitative Modeling
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MATH 2103 (or MATH 2245) or STAT 5013
or MSIS 5303
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5. Integrative Business Concepts (6 graduate hours from two categories)
Business Law
Economics
Marketing
Finance
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LSB 5163 or LSB 3213
ECON 5113 or (ECON 2023 & ECON 2013)
MKTG 5133 or MKTG 3213
FIN 5053 or FIN 5013
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