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The Master of Science in Technology and Innovation (MSTI) program at United States University prepares students to lead organizational innovation through the strategic application of emerging technologies, data-informed decision-making, and ethical business practices. The program integrates advanced study in technology management, innovation strategy, organizational leadership, and digital transformation to equip graduates with the competencies needed to navigate rapidly evolving global business environments.
Tuition Rate:
$18,436
(including fees)
Monthly Payment Plan:
$450 per month
Designed for working professionals and aspiring leaders, the MSTI curriculum emphasizes practical application, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and strategic innovation across diverse organizational settings. Students develop analytical, managerial, and communication competencies necessary to evaluate technological opportunities, improve organizational performance, and lead innovation initiatives in corporate, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, and public-sector environments.
The program fosters critical thinking, ethical reasoning, collaboration, and culturally responsive leadership while preparing graduates to communicate complex technological and organizational concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Through applied learning experiences, students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to drive sustainable innovation and organizational change in a technology-driven global economy.
Admission requirements can be found here.
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36 Semester Credit Hours
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Explores the components of an eBusiness and describes how this structure can provide value to the customer. Focus is on learning the eBusiness terminology, advantages and disadvantages of running a business on the internet, and the most appropriate business models. Examines the value of aligning eBusiness practices with the organization’s mission and vision.
This course is designed to address the entire technology commercialization process, from idea to market. As technology drives innovation and companies seek more effective ways to exploit the intellectual property they create, it is important for students in business, engineering, and the sciences to understand the processes that result in successful new technology products in the market. This course is a comprehensive look at the issues related to the transfer and commercialization of new technology. High-tech businesses with patentable technology, whether engineering technology, biotechnology, or information systems technology, display different business models, processes, and characteristics from mainstream types of business.
As scholars and managers have raced to better understand innovation, a wide range of work on the topic has emerged and flourished in disciplines such as strategic management, organization theory, economics, marketing, engineering, and sociology. This work has generated many insights about how innovation affects the competitive dynamics of markets, how firms can strategically manage innovation, and how firms can implement their innovation strategies to maximize their likelihood of success. You find as you take Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, that a great benefit will be in recognizing the dispersion of the literature across such diverse domains of study and that many innovation topics have been examined from different angles. This diversity might pose integration challenges to you the student, as you seek to integrate this wide body of work into a single coherent strategic framework.
The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the SQL language. This course not only covers the syntax of SQL, but also shows how it can be used to create and maintain a database and retrieve information from it. It also provides an introduction to relational databases. In addition to explaining concepts, the course uses a variety of assignments to reinforce the material in each chapter.
JavaScript is one of the most used scripting languages on the Internet. It is also the standard for client-side scripting. In other words, even though a JavaScript program resides on a web site, it is using the computing resources of the user's hardware and software. Xtensible Hyper Text Markup Language. The precursor was HTML. However, with XHTML unlike HTML, content can be separated from presentation. A full explanation of XHTML is necessary to take full advantage of JavaScript which is embedded in XHTML web pages. Editing, headings, linking, lists, tables and cascading style sheets (CSS) will be covered as well as many other features. JavaScript will cover control statements, functions, arrays, objects, document object model (DOM) and events. Also, the course project is about creating a working web site based upon sponsorship needs, business and monetary models. The student will use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) web editor.
This graduate-level course provides an in-depth discussion of both the theories behind systems design as well as "real world" information about how the systems design process works in a variety of industries. Systems design is a practical field that relies on a core set of concepts and principles, as well as what sometimes seems an eclectic collection of rapidly evolving tools and techniques. Learning systems design requires an appreciation of the tried-and-true techniques plus mastery of new and emerging tools and techniques that recent graduates are increasingly expected to apply on the job.
Project Management Essentials introduces and provides an overview to the fundamental elements of effective project management, including the Project Management Institute's (PMI) five processes and ten knowledge areas. Tools, methodologies, and sample questions, exercises, quizzes, and assignments are included in the modules of this class. The reading materials required for this class include a significant amount of information, however, our goal is to expose you to all the areas of project management and not expect you to be advanced project manager learners at the end of the course. As such, material you read and research should be understood to the level that you are capable of thoroughly answering the discussion questions, quizzes/exercises, and written assignments.