NJIT educates one of the largest groups of information technology students in the nation. Not coincidentally, New Jersey is one of the leading states for computing and high technology businesses. Thirty of the nation's fastest growing technology companies are based in the state, and New Jersey ranks 8th in the nation as a cyber-state and 8th for venture capital investment - $3.5 billion - in information technology and software.
Students will learn concepts, principles, techniques and practices needed to administer a modern IT environment and its security, while gaining extensive practical experience doing IT administration. Security will be a component of core courses in addition to a specific security course. Those who complete the program will be well prepared to play leadership roles as database, network, security and web services administrators, as enterprise application administrators and IT administration managers.
The Professional Management Option in the MSITAS degree is designed to create leaders with both the technical and managerial skills to be of benefit to an organization. Students in this degree program should have both an undergraduate degree in a computing related field and significant experience working in the field.
