Hello all, I am trying to decide between Nova's M.S. Information Security Program and the Management Info Systems program. I was originally looking at their MBA program, but decided that I probably wouldn't be worth going in to that much debt for a 3 tier school. I was told that when you graduate from SCIS your diploma does not say your major, just" Master Of Science" I was made aware that the diploma does not say your major on it. Is this true? If so, has this affected you in getting a job? How is the program? Theory based or Theory/Practical? Any advice would be appreciated! Mike
Yes, the diploma doesn't say the major but the transcript does. The diploma also has the name of the department/school (that is, Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences). Generally, higher education employment requires submission of official transcripts, so the fact that there was no major on the diploma hasn't affected me adversely. As a matter of fact, I applied for adjunct teaching positions at two colleges in Jersey in early 2000 with my Nova master's degree and those two colleges offered me the positions. Overall, I will say that the CS/CIS/MIS programs are strong and my Nova experience was a positive one. Perhaps, 80% of the courses are practical in the sense that most DL students are already working in the IT industry.
Re: Management Any one of the two will certainly help you to become an IT manager or a CIO but MIS is more technical than MBA.
I teach at Roosevelt University - NSU's program wasn't the plus Harvard would have been - but it was OK. What they really wanted was my telecommunications expertise - the degree was the "enabler". And of course, no degree will help if you cannot interview well
