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MS Information at University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Programme overview

The M.S. in Information is an “along-the-way” masters degree program available only to our admitted Information Studies PhD students. This program will allow students to earn a Master’s degree if they have completed all of their coursework and integrative paper (our college’s version of the comprehensive exam.) This program will therefore share many aspects of the PhD program, which prepares students to address social and technical problems of today and tomorrow.

Faculty: Information  |  Duration: 30 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: College Park, MD, United States

What you will study

Required courses include Pre-Candidacy Proseminar, Theoretical Foundations in Information Studies I, Theoretical Foundations in Information Studies II, Foundations of Data Science, Analyzing Social Networks and Social Media, User Experience Research Methods. The degree requires 30 credits in total.

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Application information

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Each graduate program sets its own admission requirements and deadlines.

Graduate applications are submitted online through the TerpEngage Graduate Admissions System; the application fee is $90 per program applied to (non-refundable). Deadlines are set by each program.

Apply through the official page: https://gradschool.umd.edu/admissions

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