Master’s in Innovation with User Experience
Grounded in technology, design, and business disciplines, the online Master’s in Innovation with User Experience (IUX) program is designed to deliver a highly qualified and competitive workforce for the IT industry. The WPI Business School has world-class expertise and resources in UX and is ideally positioned to prepare students as UX professionals and set them on a path to take on leaderships positions such as chief experience officers (CXO).
UX-driven innovations are no longer a luxury, but a must for maintaining competitive advantage in the marketplace. The continual demand for innovative technologies in our daily lives, both at personal and organizational level, is intensified by the continually increasing pace of our digital economy. Tech companies must ensure that their products are successfully embraced and effectively used by their intended users at home and at work. To achieve this goal, competition in the IT industry has shifted toward developing an outstanding user experience (UX).
Innovative companies know UX is key to gaining and retaining customers. Become a UX specialist and meet the growing demand for professionals who work with product designers, game designers, and technology designers to deliver exceptional user experiences. Get there by joining our online Master's in Innovation with User Experience graduate program, one of the first such programs in the nation with faculty with UX expertise who provide IUX skills and experiences to professionals with a variety of backgrounds.
A Premier STEM Business Degree, More Affordable Tuition
There is a pressing need for engineers, scientists, and coders with business acumen and management skills. WPI is committed to making STEM education more attainable, and The Business School is doing its part by reducing its tuition for graduate programs. Today, a premier degree from WPI’s business school is more affordable than ever—meaning you can see a high return on investment from your degree even sooner.
The Business School, established at a premier technology-focused university, has world-class expertise and educational resources in technology and business, and thus is suitably poised to offer valuable graduate-level programs that prepare students to apply entrepreneurial thinking and transform into leadership roles.
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Curriculum
Program Requirements
The UI UX master’s online is a 33-credit program, designed as a stackable, professional master’s degree. As such, it involves a realistic capstone project. The MS IUX also serves as an entry to the PhD program in the WPI Business School, and thus allows for research credits (with permission of the IUX program director).
Students will gain specialized knowledge in the following areas/specialties:
- System Design. Prepares students for designing advanced technologies that utilize data science approaches such as business intelligence and machine learning.
- Applied Analytics. Prepares students for careers involving information retrieval, data curation, and data analysis.
- Marketing. Prepares students for developing product management strategies that take advantage of consumer analytics.
Courses
Subject to change based on availability.
View academic term start dates for online courses.
Students must complete the three-course core as follows:
- MIS 583. User Experience Applications
- MIS 585. User Experience Design
- MIS 586. User Experience Methods
Students must complete two three-course specialties, selected from the following specialties:
Brands, Products and Consumers
- MKT 500. Marketing Strategy
- MKT 561. Consumer Behavior and Analytics
- MKT 569. Product and Brand Management
System Design (Select any 3; The first three are online; the others, which are not FBS courses, may not be available online)
- MIS 500. Innovating with Information Systems
- MIS 571. Database Applications Design and Development
- MIS 582. Information Security Design and Management
- IMGD 5000. Game Design Studio
- IMGD 5300. Design of Interactive Experiences
- RBE/CS 526. Human-Robot Interaction
- RBE 595. Synergy of Human and Robot Systems
- WR 593. Robot Futures: Design, Ethics, Communication
Applied Analytics (Select any 3)
- MIS 502. Data Management for Analytics
- MIS 584. Business Intelligence
- MIS 587. Business Applications in Machine Learning
- OIE 559. Optimization for Business Analytics
- DS 501. Introduction to Data Science
- DS 502. Statistical Methods for Data Science
- or, MA 511. Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
Organizing and Managing Innovation (Select any 3)
- FIN 500. Financial Management
- ETR 500. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- ETR 593. Technology Commercialization
- MIS 576. Project Management
- OBC 533. Negotiations
- OBC 537. Leading Change
Students must complete a two-course capstone project experience
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