Listen to what IT Professionals Say About Our Program

IT Recruiters and HR Professionals Know and Respect the Value of a Degree from UMBC

A master’s degree from UMBC adds strength and respect to your resume. This credential is looked upon with respect by colleagues, professional recruiters, HR professionals, and IT industry leaders. Part of the UMBC mission is to build on our established reputation as an entrepreneurial research institution in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Therefore, the corporate partnerships we maintain through BWTech@UMBC and TechCenter@UMBC help keep the university on the vanguard of emerging technologies. This, in turn, allows us to offer an IS graduate program that truly supports what is happening in the IT industry.

In fact, UMBC graduates work in IT for many top employers including, T.Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Verizon, Black & Decker, Northup Grumman, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and many municipal and government agencies. Our graduates help their organizations better exploit information systems. Many graduates say they implement class work into their jobs while enrolled in the program and achieve recognition from colleagues and supervisors. Often times, salary increases, promotions and more prestigious titles or higher paying jobs elsewhere result from having graduated from our online Master’s in IS.

Such individuals are the kinds of people that organizations want at the middle and senior positions of their information technology operations. CIO's should have this kind of ability and it’s not uncommon for a graduate to advance their career from business systems analyst to CIO.

Listen to what IT Recruiters and HR Professionals Say…