The purpose of this masters program is to educate a new generation of managers, planners, analysts, and programmers, on the realities and potential for electronic commerce.  This must be understood for all forms of trade and commerce among industrial, commercial, governmental, institutional, and consumer participants.

The student who completes his Masters in this program will:

• Know how to appraise electronic trade and commerce opportunities in precise terms of costs and benefits.
• Know how to construct a variety of complete electronic commerce systems for selling products and services.
• Know how to construct a variety of complete electronic commerce systems for managing vendor relations.
• Be competent to appraise tools such as HTTP Servers, secure transaction software and firewalls, low and high-end database systems, heterogeneous networks, NNTP Servers, client software, financial institution networking tools, and intelligent agents.
• Be competent in the contracts needed to support electronic trade and commerce on the Internet.
• Be competent to provide the financial accounting infrastructure to support electronic trade and commerce.

E-Commerce Degree Curriculum

The E-Commerce master's degree program consists of:

• Four mini-semesters of course work distributed evenly between computer and business courses.  (A mini-semester is seven weeks long.)

• A practicum over two consecutive mini-semesters in which teams of students build a prototype E-commerce system to solve a real-world problem.

The program is designed to be completed in one calendar year of full-time study.