7 Best Information Systems Master of Arts (MA) Degree Programs for 2024

The deepest dive into transformative creative leadership for the digital era and beyond. Expanding the reach of creativity, design, and ingenuity in the industry into new territories. This program equips future leaders to create resilience and leads visionary change. Mastery to navigate an uncertain future. Candidates for our Full-time MA Digital Management programs are taken on a transformative journey to become a new kind of leader – one who is adaptive, collaborative, and creatively driven, who can go beyond conventional thinking practices to create effective teams and business value.

The MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (DAMM) programme explores the opportunities and challenges that organisations face as they attempt to develop effective strategies to manage ever-increasing amounts of data in the form of digital assets. Because the management of digital assets has become a critical concern for organisations operating across nonprofit and for-profit sectors, this programme is playing a critical role in preparing students for DAMM-related careers.

The rapid evolution of digital communication technologies has dramatically impacted the essential knowledge and skills required to carve out and advance a communications professional or scholar's career. This innovative Master of Arts program - offered on-campus or fully online - prepares students to embrace technology - and technological change - as an essential part of their professional portfolio.

Our Part-Time, Online MA Digital Management program has been designed to enable you to face the challenges of our uncertain modern world, but with a schedule, that enhances a transformative journey. Together with classmates from all over the world, you will become a new kind of leader; one that’s adaptive, collaborative, and creatively driven. Go beyond other conventional master’s programs and thinking practices on how to create effective teams and business values.

Advances in digital technologies have drastically changed almost every aspect of our society including public administration, industrial structure, employment, and private lives. Organizations can no longer delay their digital transformations (DX). The digital future is right now. It is estimated that nearly 40% of all business may disappear in the next 10 years, if these businesses do not transform and accommodate new digital technologies. There is now high demand in many industries for employees equipped with knowledge of digital transformation. After nearly 20 years of offering its globally top-ranked e-Business Management Program, GSIM’s new MA in Digital Management aims for nurturing future leaders who can lead a global business in a digital society by utilizing digital technologies and culture to achieve business growth and to gain competitive advantage. Instructors for the program are professors with cutting-edge research on digital technologies, invited industrial practitioners, and guest speakers worldwide. The case method is a principal pedagogical means in most classes, in addition to others like simulations and real-life global virtual team projects. Our graduates will gain hands-on knowledge of cutting-edge digital technologies (Big Data, blockchain, AI, cloud computing, IoT, cybersecurity, etc.). They will be equipped with knowledge of digital strategies, platforms, business models, digital entrepreneurship and innovation, FinTech, digital marketing/human resource/supply chain, and much more. Careers for graduates from the program include, but are not limited to managers who can take advantage of digital technologies, managers in charge of implementing digital transformations, IT specialists who consult about technology projects, and civil servants who build and manage digital environments in public organizations.

Join us at the iSchool for a progressive and challenging program. Accredited by the American Library Association since its inception of accreditation (1924), our program will support you in becoming innovative information professional.

Are you interested in cultural heritage as well as digitalization? Digital humanity is an interdisciplinary field of study that represents a bridge between the arts and humanities to information technology. It further stretches beyond academia, mainly through collaboration with the cultural heritage sector.