Accreditations
Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)
Tuition fee non-EU nationals (2025/2026)
The master degree in Information Systems Management lasts for two years, and is comprised of 120 ECTS credits, divided between: 48 in compulsory curricular units, 24 in optional courses, 6 in free electives and 42 for the dissertation or project.
The indicated electives will be available in the evening, allowing the student to choose the recommended courses or others that fit their schedule.
Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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Recommended optative
The current study plan of the Master allows students to graduate with a specialization in one of two possible areas: Digital Transformation Technologies or Data Science.
In order for a student to have one of these specializations, he will have to register, using the optional curricular units (UC), of the 4 specific UC. Only if you successfully complete the 4 UC in that area you can complete the specialization.
The opening of elective courses, and consequently the specializations, is subject to the selection of courses by a sufficient number of students. It is also important to consider that there are limitations on the number of students enrolled per course.
Digital Transformation Technologies:
03691 | Blockchain
03557 | Business Process Management
02674 | Cloud Techonologies and Systems
04401 | Disruptive Technologies
04412 | Digital Transformation
03579 | Iot for Smart Cities
03746 | Internet of Things Laboratory
Data Science:
03363 | Computational Intelligence and Optimization
02864 | Algorithms for Big Data
02870 | Text Mining
03209 | Data Science Fundamentals
Objectives
The course aims to equip participants with integrated abilities in organizational Information Systems, using the most appropriate and current methodologies, technologies and management principles. It aims to provide students with scientific and methodological skills corresponding to the 2nd cycle in the technological and management fields.
With this master's degree students will have the possibility to deepen knowledge about the main topics required and used by the labour market with regard to the governance and management of information technologies for the benefit of business. Agile, scrum, DevOps, project management, IT governance, IT service management, BPMN, process optimization, data science, ITIL, COBIT, will be some of the main approached topics.
It offers a subsequent cycle of studies to 1st cycle graduates in Information and Business Management, as well as to the graduates of other institutions. It also intends to affirm itself as an alternative for graduates who have followed a 3-year plan and who are looking for a training and learning process that follows standards of a high level of demand and result-orientation.
Students should be able to: communicate effectively in writing and orally; think critically; demonstrate high technical knowledge in the essential areas of information technology and management, relevant to management information systems; demonstrate specific skills for diagnostic, synthesis and research work.
These learning objectives are operationalised through the specific objectives of each course unit, duly specified in the respective FUC, and with a direct correspondence to at least one of the course's learning objectives.
The degree of fulfilment is measured in each course unit, in the respective FUC, which contains the assessment methodologies used for each specific objective.
Thesis / Final work
The program intends for students to develop and demonstrate abilities of independent work, planning, investigating, systematizing, developing, writing (in the form of a dissertation) and presenting their introductory work of scientific activity around a well-defined topic. The work will be guided by a supervisor or recognized specialist that, among other things, will help the candidates to choose the most appropriate research methodology. If the theme chosen is multidisciplinary, it is possible to have a co-supervisor in order to adequately cover the scientific areas involved. This curricular unit ends with the defense of the dissertation made before a jury appointed for this purpose in a public examination.
Iscte strongly encourages dissertations to be written in English, not only because this promotes their international dissemination by making them available in the institutional repository, but also because it facilitates the production of scientific articles based on the results of the research described in the dissertation. The acceptance for publication of such an article in an international event or journal with scientific peer review, prior to the defence, is a factor that will positively influence the final grade obtained in this UC. Please note that the dissertation grade counts for almost half of the final master's degree average, as this average is calculated on the basis of the credit-weighted grades of all the UCs taken within the scope of the MIG.
Although the "dissertation" option is favoured, as it provides a good introduction to the world of research, which is the main forge of knowledge throughout the world, the master's student may opt to carry out a "project work" of an innovative nature, totalling the same credits as a dissertation, whose preparation must be anchored in a well-identified development methodology and whose report, which will also be subject to a public defence before a jury, must meet the same quality requirements as a dissertation. Project work will typically be of a more applied nature than a dissertation and may be carried out within the scope of a research centre linked to ISTA, under the supervision of one of its researchers, or conducted in a company, typically under the supervision of a professor from DCTI or IBS and co-supervised by a specialist of recognised merit from that same company.