Management of Technology, M.S.

Continue creating a self-customized curriculum by organizing electives into “Knowledge Areas.” These informal technology-based specializations reflect the recent directional advances in the field. However, students may elect a unique focus by creating a curriculum that includes courses across the prescribed Knowledge Areas below:

Digital Strategies and Innovation

Technology strategy blends business needs with technology-based solutions to achieve competitive advantage. Learn how to play a vital role in defining the technology direction for an organization and frame the formulation and execution of technology strategy. 

• MG-GY 7703 Entrepreneurship
• MG-GY 8673 Technology Strategy
• MG-GY 8683 Economics Strategies for Digital Platforms
• MG-GY 9753/MG-GY 9781 Selected Topics in Management -Titles include: FinTech: Finance Industry Transformation, Ethical Leadership and Entrepreneurship, and Digital Healthcare Entrepreneurship

Business Design

Business design is a human-centered approach to innovation that combines design principles and methods with the strategy to help organizations create new value and sustainable growth. Learn the principles and methods with the strategy to help organizations create new value and sustainable growth. Learn the principals and methods of design that are now embraced by more traditional companies and management consultancies as well as entrepreneurs. 

• MG-GY 9013 Design Thinking for Creative Problem Solving
• MG-GY 8613 Product Design Studio
• MG-GY 8623 Design Strategies
• MG-GY 8643 New Product Development
• MG-GY 9753 Selected Topics in Management - Titles include Design for Innovation with AI & ML

Project Management

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet the requirements of a particular project. Learn how to assist organizations in achieving their goals by completing projects that contribute to their strategic objectives with minimum resources.

• MG-GY 8203 Project Management
• MG-GY 8223 Agile Project Management
• MG-GY 8233 Quality Management/six-sigma

Data Analytics

Data analytics turns measurements into insights to improve decision making in business. Learn how to rely on the scientific process to collect and interpret data through a mixture of quantitative techniques in order to predict, evaluate, and inform decisions in a variety of business areas, including operations, customer service, marketing, and finance.

• MG-GY 8401 Programming for Business Intelligence and Analytics
• MG-GY 8411 Data Engineering
• MG-GY 8413 Business Analytics
• MG-GY 6103 Management Science
• MG-GY 8423 Machine Learning for Business

People Analytics

Technology can address many complex business problems, but only when it's combined with the right talent, a firm's most important asset. Learn how to leverage organizational data utilizing people analytics, a rapidly expanding field, to create synergies between talent and technology for developing innovative strategies in achieving business success. 

• MG-GY 6181 Talent Management Systems
• MG-GY 6343 Human Capital Engineering & Analytics 
• MG-GY 6373 Human Capital Big Data, Predictive Analytics & ROI

Technological Innovations for Urban Systems

This comprehensive course series delves into the intersection of urban planning, emerging technologies, and management principles. Students emerge with a unique skill set that combines technology management proficiency with sustainable smart city development. They are well-prepared to take on leadership roles in public and private sectors, driving innovation in urban systems.

MOT Students can select up to three CUSP courses from the following list:

• CUSP-GX 7053 Innovative City Governance
• CUSP-GX 8053 Urban Decision Models
• CUSP-GX 8103 Data-Driven Methods for Policy
• CUSP-GX 9113 Digital Civics for Social Innovation

MG-GY 9503 MOT Capstone Project Course

The Evening Full-time and Part-time MOT format is catered for recent graduates who have less than five years professional work experience or for busy professionals, all requiring the ultimate in flexibility of obtaining the MOT degree in an evening format (where classes are held Monday through Thursday, with some courses available on Saturdays). When taken full-time at 12 credits per semester (after your first semester), the degree can be completed in one and a half years.

A unique learning opportunity for M.S. Management of Technology (MOT) students to start their degree at an NYU Global Campus (Shanghai or London) and finish their degree in Brooklyn.

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• MOT London-NYC 
• MOT Shanghai-NYC 

The online MOT format is strictly offered in a pure online internet delivery form (no in-class attendance). It is designed for those professionals who cannot physically attend class due to personal preference, geographical constraints, or work reasons. The curriculum of the Online MOT format mirrors that of the MOT program in scope, depth and content. However, it has been modified to provide delivery online.

The online MOT format also features four newly designed MOT Knowledge Areas in: Operations and Project Management, Cyber Security, Human Resource Information Systems and Human Capital Engineering and Analytics.

Learn  more about the Online MOT Curriculum

• Apply best practices in leadership, innovation, quantitative analysis, and business and technology management
• An emphasis on people, process and tools to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship
• Active involvement with highly respected faculty
• More agility in handling day-to-day challenges at work
• Modern learning methods, e.g. individualized and team-based coaching
• Carefully selected elective courses to maintain flexibility in meeting diverse professional needs
• A professional, modern, and informal learning environment
• Close collaboration with respected partners in industry and relevant scholarly communities
• A curriculum that is continually updated
• Participants are viewed as partners in the learning process