MS Information Technology and Management FAQ

Admission Requirements/Procedures - MS ITM FAQ

Yes, you must submit all unofficial documents by the deadline for your application to be complete and reviewed.

Please note prior to enrolling or be approved for financial aid you must be admitted into the program and submit all official required documents.

An official and competitive GMAT or GRE score, no more than five years old by date of application, is required from all applicants.

UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management prefers the GMAT admission test, however, we gladly accept the GRE test as well.

No, you don’t need to submit the TOEFL if you have graduated from a university in United States.

  • Eligibility criterion: The applicants are required to fill the application form and submit it before the application deadline. The GRE or GMAT score should be no more than 5 years old. We also require one letter of recommendation, transcripts from all previous attended universities, a well written statement of purpose and a resume. All international students are required to pass an English language test for example TOEFL. Applicants are also required to submit the application fee.
  • Fee structure: The fee structure varies from year to year. The masters students are required to take 36 semester credit hours which comes out to be 12 courses in two years. Please visit the Bursar’s Office for the current fee structure of our university. The fee is different for resident and non-resident students. Remember that this fee structure changes from year to year.
  • The school’s average GRE score is 320 (1240 based on the old scoring system) and average GMAT score is 600.
  • The average GPA of the enrolled masters student is 3.3 out of 4.
  • Work experience is always recommended but not required.
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Career, Internship and Job Placements - MS ITM FAQ

International students are eligible to work on a curricular internship for a maximum of 12 months while they are still students in the program. Further, since the MS ITM is an approved degree under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program, the graduating students are eligible to work for up to 36 months under the Optional Practical Training program. Please contact the Office of International Student Services for details about these programs.

Yes. You can decide how many credits you want to take as a part of your internship. You can take a 3 semester credit hour internship as long as it meets certain requirements which the Program Director determines on a case by case basis, considering factors such as duties, duration, direct manager and company involved. Domestic students must have completed one long semester and international students, two long semesters before they can take an internship for credit. A maximum of 3 semester credit hours for the internship can count towards completing the Master’s program.

An internship or an applied, practice-based class is a mandatory requirement for graduation. In the last academic year, students in the MS ITM program worked on more than 400 internships for 200 different employers. In addition, the program offers a Digital Consulting class where local employers provide students in the class with projects to work on. Students have a choice to complete an internship, the digital consulting class or complete both. For students currently working, a project or experience from their existing employer may be used to satisfy the internship requirement.

Fall 2021 – Average wage – $26.09, 75 internships

Spring 2022 – Average wage – $28.05, 73 internships

Graduates with a Master of Science degree in Information Technology (IT) and Management find positions such as business analyst, consultant, program analyst, database administrator, IT project manager and IT specialist, depending on prior experience. They are employed in every conceivable industry, including consulting, financial services, retail, energy, transportation and consumer goods. Most companies have a well-defined career path for their IT professionals. The typical top-level positions within the IT function of a firm include chief information officer (CIO), chief security officer (CSO), partner, senior vice president and director of technology.

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For all international applicants, an official English proficiency exam score, no more than two years old from the date of application, from one of three testing services is required. We accept the TOEFL (minimum 80 IBT), IELTS (minimum 6.5), and the Pearson Test of English (PTE, minimum 67). Our institutional TOEFL code is 6897.

Our GRE school code is R6897.

You have met the English proficiency requirement, and do not need to submit an English proficiency exam for admission, if:

No. International applicants who have completed an undergraduate or graduate degree from a college or university in the United States are waived from the English proficiency requirement.

The applicant’s cumulative GPA will be used as a part of the admission committee’s review for competitiveness for admission. Currently, the average admitted GPA is a 3.3.

Local applicants must submit official transcripts from all U.S. based colleges and universities attended, including any graduate program in which the applicant was enrolled for admission. These transcripts must be certified, signed or stamped official by the university’s Registrar Office.

International applicants and U.S. citizen and permanent resident applicants with an international degree must submit an official attested photocopy of academic documents such as a transcript, diploma, mark sheets, provisional degree certificate and or your final degree certificate, in a school sealed envelope with the school seal stamped on the back side of the envelope.

Overall, applicants must provide the following documents:

  • Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended
  • Degree certificate if applicable (international students)
  • GMAT or GRE and TOEFL or IELTS scores from testing centers
  • One letter of recommendation (no specific format)
  • Personal objectives statement
  • Resume

Note: Resume, recommendation letters and personal objective statement, if not electronically submitted with your application or mailed in with your transcripts, please email your letters of recommendation, resume, and/or personal statement to JSOMGRAdvising@utdallas.edu. Please include your application ID with your email.

Yes, you may, once admitted and prior to enrollment you would need to provide official documents.

Fall Deadline: May 1
Spring Deadline: October 1
Summer Deadline: March 1

Late applications will be accepted up to the day prior to classes beginning https://www.utdallas.edu/academiccalendar/.

Yes, for available scholarships at Jindal school of management, please visit the scholarship page: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/student-resources/scholarships/

UT Dallas also provides scholarships. Please visit UT Dallas office of financial aid for more information: https://finaid.utdallas.edu/scholarships/

A competitive GMAT or GRE score, no more than five years old by date of application is required from all applicants, except for:

  • Candidates who have a doctoral degree, such as a PhD, MD or Juris Doctor.
  • High-achieving candidates may request a GMAT/GRE waiver if they have obtained*: T
  • heir undergraduate or graduate degree from UT Dallas (regardless of their major) and achieved a GPA at or above a 3.500. (GPA only includes UTD grades.)
  • Their undergraduate or graduate degree from a university with an AACSB-accredited business school (regardless of their degree’s area of focus) and achieved a GPA at or above a 3.600.
  • Their academic certificate from JSOM, in a related field, and achieved a GPA at or above 3.500.
  • They graduated Summa Cum Laude from a U.S.-based ABET-accredited school
  • They graduated in the top 20 percent of their graduating class from an EQUIS school. (Official verification required.)*

* Once application is submitted, if applicant meets the GMAT/GRE criteria outlined above, they must email JSOMGRAdvising@utdallas.edu to request review without submitting a GMAT/GRE.

You may contact the JSOM office of scholarships via:
For undergraduate: jsom-ug-scholarship@utdallas.edu
For graduate scholarship: jsom-grad-scholarship@utdallas.edu

UT Dallas offers two different tuition plans. The variable tuition rate plan is based on a traditional plan that only locks tuition rates in for one academic year at a time. The rates on the variable tuition plan are subject to change each academic year.

The guaranteed tuition plan is a plan that locks tuition rates in for four consecutive years and protects the student against increases during those four years. This plan is designed to aid students and families in the budget and planning of college expenses.

All new incoming students will be automatically placed into the variable tuition rate plan, but will have the option to lock in their tuition rates for four consecutive years with the guaranteed tuition plan.

To make your tuition plan choice, please follow these instructions on this page https://www.utdallas.edu/finance/bursar/tuition/

Knowledge of calculus is required for the following graduate programs: MS in Business Analytics, MS in Energy Management, MS in Finance, MS in Management Science and MS in Supply Chain Management. Applicants who have not satisfied this requirement may take OPRE 6303 (Quantitative Foundations of Business).

You may contact the International Student Services for questions related to I20, international orientations and F-1 visa or other visa types.

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