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Master of Information Management and Systems

Course code: 2401 + Course abbreviation: MIMS + Total credit points required: 72 + 1.5 years full-time, 3 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

This course, offered by the Caulfield School of Information Technology, aims to prepare students for careers in information systems and information management. Graduates of the program are expected to play leading professional roles in Australia and other countries. The course attracts students from a wide variety of educational and professional backgrounds. MIMS can be studied in full-time and part-time modes, and a number of units are available by off-campus learning. Students are required to specialise in at least one area of information systems or information management.

Entry requirements

The normal entry requirement is a degree that is equivalent to an Australian bachelors degree. Candidates without formal tertiary qualifications will enter via the faculty’s Executive Certificate in Information Technology.

Advanced standing

Students who have completed a graduate qualification with a recognised specialisation in information systems or information management may be granted credit or advanced standing. The granting of more than 24 points of credit or advanced standing is rare. Students who have been granted credit or advanced standing must still meet the specialisation and foundation unit requirements in order to complete this course.

Course structure

To qualify with the MIMS, students must complete 72 points of graduate units - a minimum of 60 points from the information management and systems stream (IMSxxxx), and a maximum of 12 points of free choice electives. Electives can be taken from any graduate program in the Faculty of Information Technology including the IMS units or, with the approval of the course leader, from other faculties of the university. The IMS units in the MIMS are shown in the list below. Each student's course of study must include four foundation units and at least one specialisation from information systems development, information technology management, knowledge management, business intelligence, library and information services, electronic recordkeeping and archiving or e-business. Exemption from foundation units can be granted to students whose undergraduate study has provided appropriate knowledge. Students are also required to complete FIT9001 (Masters transition program). The requirement to complete FIT9001 is only applicable to on-campus students. FIT9001 is a 0-point unit studied over four weeks (weeks three to six) through four two-hour workshops. This unit must be completed before students can enrol into their second semester of study.

Students should take careful note of prerequisites for the units in the specialisation they have chosen and complete these units early in their course. Many units have foundation units as prerequisites. The foundation units have been designed for students with little prior study in information technology.

Some electives are classed as ‘special entry’, and admission requires the formal approval of the head of school. It may be possible for some students to complete more than one specialisation in their degree. The specialisations completed will be acknowledged on a student’s official academic transcript.

Students who successfully complete 24 points of study from the IMS graduate units may exit the course with a Graduate Certificate in Information Management and Systems. Students who successfully complete 48 points of study, of which 36 points are from graduate units within the IMS stream, may exit the course with a Graduate Diploma in Information Management and Systems.

One compulsory unit

FIT9001 Masters transition program

Foundation units

Select four units from the following list:

IMS9001 Systems analysis and design
IMS9003 Business information management
IMS9043 Information technology in organisations
IMS9049 ICT fundamentals for IS/IM professionals*
IMS9300 IS/IM fundamentals
CSE9000 Foundations of programming or BUS9520 Business systems A (but not both)

Specialisations