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Graduate Degrees for an Information-driven World
The College of Information Sciences and Technology offers a research-based M.S./Ph.D. program and a professional master's degree program.
Personalized Curriculum
The Ph.D. curriculum is flexible and can be tailored to fit your research interests. We offer four tracks of study, chosen for strategic relevance to emerging issues:
The Master of Professional Studies curriculum is designed to give working professionals the skills they need to further their careers with a convenient and flexible online degree program.
Faculty Mentors
Your IST career will be guided by an interdisciplinary faculty of exceptional quality. Not only are they research leaders in their fields, but some of them have substantial experience as leaders in industry and government.
Among the IST faculty members with whom you may work are:
This age of information explosion and rapidly increasing accessibility is producing exciting opportunities for research in areas such as Web science, rational network science, extreme events systems science, X-informatics, global self-awareness, and change in the culture of work and education.
Personalized Curriculum
The Ph.D. curriculum is flexible and can be tailored to fit your research interests. We offer four tracks of study, chosen for strategic relevance to emerging issues:
- Computational Informatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Social and Enterprise Informatics
- Security Informatics
The Master of Professional Studies curriculum is designed to give working professionals the skills they need to further their careers with a convenient and flexible online degree program.
Faculty Mentors
Your IST career will be guided by an interdisciplinary faculty of exceptional quality. Not only are they research leaders in their fields, but some of them have substantial experience as leaders in industry and government.
Among the IST faculty members with whom you may work are:
- 1 ACM CHI Lifetime Achievement recipient
- 4 IEEE Fellows
- 2 ACM Fellows
- 7 NSF Presidential / Young Investigators / CAREER recipients
- 1 Fulbright Chair
This age of information explosion and rapidly increasing accessibility is producing exciting opportunities for research in areas such as Web science, rational network science, extreme events systems science, X-informatics, global self-awareness, and change in the culture of work and education.
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Why IST?
The way people interact and solve problems has evolved quickly. These changes raise interesting research questions that can be addressed only by integrating perspectives from technology, information, and people.
Are you interested in tackling interdisciplinary problems of this kind? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
In this information-rich world, new complex phenomena and new types of information often emerge, which provide a golden opportunity for discovering the principles regarding these new phenomena and new information.
Are you interested in these discoveries? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
The world faces global challenges in the use of information technology for improving health care and for enhancing the security in the cyber space while protecting the information privacy of people.
Are you attracted to research that can help solve problems like these? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
Are you interested in tackling interdisciplinary problems of this kind? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
In this information-rich world, new complex phenomena and new types of information often emerge, which provide a golden opportunity for discovering the principles regarding these new phenomena and new information.
Are you interested in these discoveries? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
The world faces global challenges in the use of information technology for improving health care and for enhancing the security in the cyber space while protecting the information privacy of people.
Are you attracted to research that can help solve problems like these? Come to IST@PENNSTATE.
Alumni Making an Impact
Alumni of IST’s graduate programs are emerging to become thought leaders in the academic world and in leading corporate and government laboratories.
Among our graduates are tenure-track assistant professors at Harvard and Columbia universities. Others are joining well-known organizations such as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), GE Research, Bloomberg, IBM, Yahoo! Research, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Among our graduates are tenure-track assistant professors at Harvard and Columbia universities. Others are joining well-known organizations such as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), GE Research, Bloomberg, IBM, Yahoo! Research, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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