- About the program
The program can be completed within two academic years and courses are provided in five rounds and thesis work.
- Objectives of the program
The main objective of this program is to produce highly trained graduates in Information Technology that perfectly fit to the demand in the academia, industry, etc.
Admission requirements
The following requirements must be fulfilled in order to be admitted into the MSc program in Information Technology:
- Applicants must have:
- BSc degree in Information Technology / Computer Science from the recognized University. or
- BSc degree in related fields: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Statistics, Information Science, Information System and etc. from a recognized University and have taken a minimum of 30 credit hours of Information Technology / Computer Science courses.
- Applicants must meet the general admission policies of the University.
- Applicants are required to have 40% marks (score) for their transcripts / grades / CGPA they scored in their previous or Under Graduate degree level and successfully pass an entrance examination with minimum of 60% score (marks), which will be conducted before registration.
Course breakdown (Core courses, Elective Courses, Thesis and Project)
Core Courses
A graduate student should take the following core courses.
| Course Code | Course Title | Total Credit Hours |
Theory Credit Hours |
Lab Credit Hours |
| MSIT541 | Distributed Computing | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| MSIT532 | Artificial Intelligence &Expert System | 3 | 3 | – |
| MSIT641 | Wireless Communication Technology | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| MSIT504 | IT Project Management | 3 | 3 | – |
| MSIT502 | Research Methodologies in IT | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| MSIT512 | Advanced Networks principles and Protocols | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| MSIT13 | Advanced Database Management System | 2 | 2 | – |
| Total | 20 | 17 | 3 | |
- Elective Courses
A graduate student should take two or three of the following courses depending on the plan from which the student is in. Thesis option should take only two courses where as other should take three courses.
| Course Code | Course Title | Total Credit Hours |
Theory Credit Hours |
Lab Credit Hours |
| MSIT624 | Multimedia System | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| MSIT622 | Web Engineering | 3 | 3 | – |
| MSIT511 | Object Oriented System Development | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| MSIT610 | Current Issues in IT | 2 | – | – |
| MSIT534 | Information Retrieval(IR) | 3 | 3 | – |
| MSIT544 | Data and Web Mining | 3 | 3 | – |
| MSIT | Advanced Data Structure and Algorithm | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| MSIT | Embedded Systems | 2 | 2 | – |
| MSIT | IT Workshop in Programming Languages | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 25 | 21 | 4 | |
- Thesis and Projects
| Course Code | Course Tile | Credit Hours |
| MSIT640 | Thesis | 6 |
| MSIT660 | Project | 3 |
| Total | 09 | |
Course schedule
| Plan A |
Year I |
Semester I | Semester II |
| MSIT514 4 MSIT512 3 Elective*** 3 Total 10 |
MSIT523 3 MSIT520 2 MSIT521 3 Elective*** 3 Total 11 |
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| Year II |
MSIT614 3 MSIT610 2 Total 5 |
MSIT ***6 |
| Plan B |
Year I |
Semester I | Semester II |
| MSIT514 4 MSIT512 3 Elective *** 3 Total 10 |
MSIT523 3 MSIT520 2 MSIT521 3 Elective 3 Total 11 |
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| Year II |
MSIT614 3 MSIT610 2 Total 5 |
MSIT *** 3 Elective 3 Total 6 |
Graduation Requirements and Degree
- Students must complete all the required courses and achieve the required CGPA of 3.0 and complete and defend successfully his/her thesis work to be eligible for graduation. No student can graduate with an “F” and / or “D” grades in any of the courses
A candidate who fulfills graduation requirements shall be awarded the “
Master of Science in Information Technology”.