• The Management Information Systems major focuses on IT-supported techniques for exploring, analyzing, integrating, and reporting business data to facilitate fact-based decisions and enterprise-wide management

• The Penn State Smeal Executive MBA Program is the leading expertise of the internationally ranked Smeal College of Business
• Classes are taught primarily on the weekends in the Philadelphia area, complemented with several residence weeks on the University Park campus
• Graduates bring years of experience working at some of the top companies

• The M.S. program in IST is flexible and can be tailored to fit your personal research interests and career aspirations
• The M.S. program includes a thesis or project that typically takes two semesters to organize and complete and that often results in one or more publications
• Students gain in-depth expertise in a specific set of issues and methods that are relevant to their personal research interests

• Master of Arts in Mathematics offers both thesis and the non-thesis options
• Under the thesis and non-thesis option student must complete paper work and register for 6 credits

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• Master of Finance program is designed for intensive and focused study in finance
• The program provides with career interests as finance professionals in financial management, or investment management
• The curriculum of the program reflects a balanced combination of advanced financial theory and practical business applications

• The Master of Project Management (M.P.M.) is a graduate degree program that emphasizes all aspects of project management theory and practice
• The M.P.M. is an interdisciplinary program that utilizes problem-based learning as well as web-based instructional methods to transcend time and space and to support effective teaching and learning
• The key areas of the M.P.M. include:
  • planning, cost, and value management;
  • project control;
  • human issues in project management;
  • strategic issues in project management; and
  • commercial and procurement law as it relates to project management

• The Master of Science in Chemistry program includes total 30 credits coursework
• Candidate must write a thesis which must be approved by a committee of at least three faculty members and must schedule at least 6 credits of CHEM 600 (for a thesis) or CHEM 589 (for a research report) to fulfill this requirement
• Student has to undergo final oral examination which will be administered by a committee consisting of the student's research preceptor and two other faculty members 

• Master of Science in Civil Engineering program provide specialization in construction engineering, environmental engineering, hydrosystems engineering, structural engineering, and transportation engineering

• Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering  prepares students to direct research in a variety of subfields of computer science and engineering, including VLSI, computer architecture, parallel/distributed processors and processing, multiprocessors, interconnection networks, pattern recognition and image processing, performance evaluation, reliability, fault tolerance, theory of computation, computer systems, numerical analysis and optimization, programming methodology, and analysis of algorithms
• The course also provides research and instruction which are supported by extensive computing facilities within the University's Information Technology Services and by the computer laboratories operated by the department

• Course includes 3 credits of individual studies and allows only members of the Department of Electrical Engineering graduate faculty to instruct electrical engineering individual studies courses
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering has 9 credits which is taken at the 400 level that may be counted toward the degree requirements, though students can and often do take credits beyond degree requirements
• Students may take relevant 400-level technical courses from other graduate programs as long as they do not duplicate other course work they have taken

• Master of Science in Human Resources and Employment Relations is designed for students anticipating careers in some aspect of labor and human resources or labor-management relations
• The program prepare students to systematically analyze complex issues and also prepare them for advanced professional training beyond the master's degree

• Master of Science in Psychology course require students to perform thesis work for advancement to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree in Psychology
• Thesis involves a literature review, data collection, analysis, and discussion and a master's degree is not awarded unless a thesis is submitted to the Graduate School
• Students must successfully propose a thesis study by the end of the second year and have a successfully defended a thesis by the end of their third year in the program

• The Master of Science in Public Health curriculum emphasizes courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical research methods, clinical trials, outcomes measurement, health care economics and policy, and ethics of clinical research
• Additional courses are available in data management, translational research methods, and more specialized health services research methods
• The second major component of the master’s degree curriculum is a student-chosen, mentored research thesis that is designed, conducted, analyzed, and summarized during the two years

•The program ranks among the top 15 public MBAs (Bloomberg Businessweek)
•Equip students with the knowledge and skills to land and thrive in that perfect post-MBA job