The Walter Cerf Master of Science in Managing Innovation & Information Technology

Quick Facts/Highlights

Focuses on the effective use of IT from a management perspective
MSMIIT professors are seasoned practitioners of both business and IT disciplines
Learn to leverage Information Technology across an enterprise in today’s rapidly changing global environment
The MSMIIT program combines the best practices of both business and technology management
The MSMIIT program is an IT management degree that not only benefits the IT professional, but also provides the skills necessary for any professional seeking a management career path within an enterprise

The Master’s of Science program in Managing Innovation & Information Technology (MSMIIT) at Champlain College focuses on the effective use of information technology from a management and decision-making perspective. The goal of the MSMIIT curriculum is not to teach you the new technology, but to teach you how to manage it.

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Application Deadline for Summer 2012

April 30 is the deadline to apply for Summer 2012 admission.

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Program Details

The MSMIIT degree is the ideal program for current and aspiring business and IT leaders seeking to understand the management principles that support the decision-making process of an enterprise. The end product of this understanding is the effective implementation of technology-based solutions.

Through the Champlain MSMIIT program, you will gain a broad understanding of all aspects of how leaders can bring every functional level of an enterprise together through the implementation of innovative technology. The program focuses on the major areas of technological innovation likely to have a direct impact on a business. Learn how the convergence of innovative business and technology solutions can leverage the success of both your business and your career.

Your Champlain MSMIIT degree will enable you to use information technology creatively and strategically, while developing your ability to be a perpetual learner and a truly resourceful, adaptive leader.

Practical Skills

You will gain the skills and knowledge to understand key enabling technologies and to assume a leadership role in one of an organization’s most vital assets: information and the intellectual capital that it produces.

Strategic and Competitive Advantage

Learn to be an adaptive leader who strategically proposes, implements and delivers innovation to your organization with the confidence that the entire organization will achieve a higher level of success.

Work-based approach enhances learning

Your courses feature learning in context through work-based projects; you apply the concepts taught in the class to solve real management issues in your organization.

Project-based learning gives greater visibility at work

The program’s work-based projects enable you to have interaction with colleagues at all levels of your organization, giving you greater on-the-job visibility.

Powerful networking opportunities

The MS degree program in Managing Innovation & Information Technology has been developed to give you the maximum opportunity to connect with peers from points all across the country. You will meet those with a deep IT background, as well as seasoned business professionals from a wide range of industries and functional disciplines.

About Walter Cerf

Thanks in large part to a major donation by Walter Cerf, Champlain College was able to offer its first bachelor's degree programs in Business and Accounting. In 2005, the College named the Master's of Science in Managing Innovation & Information Technology in his honor. Born in Germany in 1907, Mr. Cerf became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1943. He served in military intelligence with the U.S. Army's 35th Infantry Division during World War II, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war, Mr. Cerf taught philosophy at Princeton, the University of Minnesota and Brooklyn College. He retired to Vermont in 1971. Always a generous benefactor-over the years, he gave over $12.5 million to more than 120 Vermont organizations, including Champlain College-Mr. Cerf passed away in 2001. His philanthropic legacy continues through an Advised Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation.