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Advance your career in tech or business with an MBA in IT
Whether you’re a techie looking to build your managerial expertise or an entrepreneur searching for practical understanding of technology's role in strategy and growth, opportunities abound for high performers who excel in both business and technology. Franklin’s MBA with a Specialization in Information Technology combines essential business management principles with fundamentals in database management, information security and project management. The applied nature of the Franklin’s accredited program prepares you to make broad managerial decisions, as well as those related to technology and data operations.
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Bolster your business savvy with an accredited MBA
Through seven 6-week courses in Franklin’s MBA program, which is accredited by the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), you’ll learn to apply business theory to real-world scenarios. These required classes provide knowledge that’s essential for success as a leader or manager, including how to communicate with various stakeholders and improve your presentation skills.
Through course assignments that emphasize real-world decision making, you’ll survey fundamental economic concepts, including supply and demand, as well as elasticity. You’ll gain a working knowledge of marketing theory and grasp effective marketing practices. You’ll develop a clear understanding of the financial and managerial accounting concepts that are routinely used in the management of daily operations. You’ll be able to describe major drivers of organizational effectiveness and acquire strategies to work with HR to attract, develop and retain employees. Lastly, you’ll merge your learnings in all disciplines to formulate a comprehensive strategy to create competitive advantage.
Three additional 12-week courses in project management, information assurance and database management comprise the IT specialization that complements the core MBA curriculum.
Apply database knowledge to solve business problems
Learn data fundamentals via hands-on assignments that include designing a relational database system for a business scenario, optimizing database designs through normalization processes, and conducting data analysis using UML, SQL and MySQL for descriptive and diagnostic purposes.
Additionally, you will explore data warehousing techniques through exercises that require you to analyze and demonstrate your understanding of how to integrate and transform data from diverse sources into a centralized repository.
Gain a strategic understanding of project management
Learn the science of project management by studying topics related to IT management including: strategic planning, assessment, organizing technology resources, prioritizing and selecting information technology, staffing and personnel management.
You’ll be able to define project management, understand its importance, describe the purpose behind it and apply the concepts of project management to projects.
Use real-world scenarios to master information security fundamentals
Become well versed in information assurance concepts including risks and vulnerabilities, threat modeling, policy formation, controls and protection methods, encryption and authentication technologies, network security, cryptography, personnel and physical security issues, as well as ethical and legal issues.
You’ll develop new skills by performing a comprehensive information security risk analysis based on a real-world case. You will configure a firewall, crack wireless passwords, perform SQL injection attacks against a vulnerable web application, create a hardening procedure for the Linux operating system and create a data backup using Windows Server Backup software.
Learn from in-field experts in instructor-led online sessions
If you’re looking for the flexibility of online learning alongside personalized attention from faculty, you’ll find it at Franklin. Online synchronous meetings provide the opportunity to ask questions, dig into assignments, work through problems, and discuss course topics with the instructor as a class. While the interactive sessions are regularly scheduled in advance, they are optional and are recorded for students to access at a later time if they choose to. In addition to accessible faculty, who are in-field practitioners, some courses include industry experts as guest speakers.
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MBA - IT Courses & Curriculum
Microcredentials Align with Job Essentials
In today's dynamic work environments, adaptive professionals thrive. A microcredential - either as a stand-alone course or integrated into your degree program - is a short, skill-specific recognition that enables you to demonstrate your competency in a distinct area. Like Franklin's degree programs, microcredentials are aligned with market and industry demand to ensure what you learn can be put to use right away. Microcredentials are easily shared via digital badges and can be stacked to create a unique portfolio of in-demand skills.
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Employment Outlook
From 2023-2033, jobs in Business & Leadership are expected to increase by 11%
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Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,520 | 18,129 | 20% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Computer and Information Systems Managers
Median Salary: $169,520
Job Postings: 18,129 Projected Growth: 20% |
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Occupation Job Titles Skills Industry DescriptionComputer and Information Systems Managers plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming. Excludes Computer Occupations (15-1211 through 15-1299). Projected Growth
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Database Administrators | $101,504 | 123,181 | 12% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Database Administrators
Median Salary: $101,504
Job Postings: 123,181 Projected Growth: 12% |
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Occupation Job Titles Skills Industry DescriptionDatabase Administrators administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. Projected Growth
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General and Operations Managers | $101,275 | 553,579 | 10% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General and Operations Managers
Median Salary: $101,275
Job Postings: 553,579 Projected Growth: 10% |
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Occupation Job Titles Skills Industry DescriptionGeneral and Operations Managers plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations, overseeing multiple departments or locations. Duties and responsibilities include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one functional area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. Usually manage through subordinate supervisors. Excludes First-Line Supervisors. Projected Growth
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Network and Computer Systems Administrators | $95,347 | 102,148 | 8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Median Salary: $95,347
Job Postings: 102,148 Projected Growth: 8% |
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Occupation Job Titles Skills Industry DescriptionNetwork and Computer Systems Administrators install, configure, and maintain an organization’s local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software. Projected Growth
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Source: Employment Outlook data is provided by Lightcast. Franklin University cannot guarantee employment placement, salary level, or career advancement.
MBA - IT Knowledge and Skillsets
Gain in-demand skills sought by employers with curriculum that teaches you: