The Accelerated Master’s Degree: A Program for the Working Executive

The University of Virginia’s Accelerated Master’s Degree in Systems and Information Engineering enables you to move beyond the limits of on-the-job training and gain skills and expertise that ensure career advancement—without interrupting your career. This full-fledged master’s program offers a number of advantages for the working executive:

• Two weeks of classes provide bookends for the regular meeting schedule of every other Friday and Saturday, and serve to introduce the Program and provide a culminating capstone experience. With this schedule, you will complete the Program in 11 months—and continue to work full-time.
• All classes are taught by full-time faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
• Friday evening dinner seminars offer a unique opportunity to learn from industry specialists.
• All courses are carefully coordinated, and you will finish the Program with a coherent body of knowledge, ready to apply it on the job at your business.
• Classes for this residential program are held on the grounds of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration—an environment designed expressly for learning.