MASTER OF SCIENCE
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES DEGREE
ANTICIPATING, INNOVATING, AND SHAPING THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Emerging Technologies (EmTech) is a technology foresight, innovation, and strategy degree,
focused on foreseeing, creating, and managing rapidly changing and emerging technology products
and services. It is ideal for creative, practical, and solution-oriented professionals seeking
to anticipate, shape, and take advantage of current advances and coming developments in any of
six accelerating, global, and world changing technology clusters:
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Information Technologies, AI and Robotics
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Physical Sciences, Engineering and Nanotech
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Energy, Resources, and Greentech
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Biotech, Medicine and Enhancement
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Social, Economic and Political Technologies
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Military, Security, and Transparency Technologies
The EmTech curriculum provides basic literacy across these exciting and transformative technology
clusters, teaches well-respected technology foresight and innovation methods, and improves strategy
via business cases and your thesis. You will learn how to identify, forecast, and assess emerging
technology opportunities and threats, to assess and improve your organization’s innovation practice
and culture, and to bring foresight to business strategy and planning teams. Do you have a technology,
business, or humanities background? A desire to learn technology foresight, innovation, and strategy
methods to address global challenges or advance your organization? EmTech is your degree.
You will gain professional forecasting expertise, demonstrate foresight and innovation competencies
in those industry technologies most applicable to a particular client or industry, and engage in a
foresight or innovation intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship project in your thesis. You will also
be encouraged to do an optional client internship during your thesis, and to take an optional industry
forecasting certificate exam during or after the program. EmTech graduates are ready to work in
technology foresight, innovation, or strategy roles in the following client types: startup, corporate,
consulting, nonprofit, journalism, education, government, military, security, assessment, policy,
and other organizations.
Why EmTech?
EmTech Faculty
EmTech Curriculum
Internship, Certification and Placement
EmTech Workload
Professional Networks
EmTech Wiki
Masters of Science Emerging Tech Course List
PROGRAM INFORMATION (MS)
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Total Program Credits:
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36
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Program Core Credits:
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12
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Semesters to completion:
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6
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Creation and presentation of a Graduate Innovation Project is required to graduate.
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The ON TIME COMPLETION RATE: Program inception was September 2009;
therefore there are no graduates for this program to-date.
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For a more detailed breakout of completion time frames and rates, please see the
UAT FAST FACTS page.
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DEGREE OBJECTIVES
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Gain literacy in six rapidly improving technology clusters currently broadly
impacting 21st-century societies, and which may have even greater effects in
the coming decade and beyond.
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Explore exponential trends, cycles of change, convergences, interrelationships,
and first- and second-order uses and effects of these technologies on organizations
and society.
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Understand ethical, social, economic, legal and political forces mediating the
development and deployment of new technologies, and implications for organizational
strategy.
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Learn to assess and analyze emerging technologies from the perspective of a range
of real-world clients, including corporations, media, non-profits, education,
government and the military.
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Gain basic business forecasting skills and be equipped to sit for an optional industry
forecasting certificate exam upon graduation.
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Complete an innovation project involving research, data, basic forecasting, foresight and strategy
in relation to an emerging technologies opportunity or threat for a specific real-world
client or industry.
FUTURE CAREERS
The University matches programs and potential/actual job titles graduates may work in with
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) standard job titles or categories and codes known as the
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes. These codes and salary information associated
with them are provided below.
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS (BLS) STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION (SOC)
13-1111 Management Analysts
11-1021 General and Operations Managers
25-1011 Business Teachers, Postsecondary
STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION (SOC) MEDIAN SALARY
13-1111 Management Analysts
11-1021 General and Operations Managers
25-1011 Business Teachers, Postsecondary
Program Costs and Graduation Data
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Masters
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Information provided below represents
CIP (Classification of Instructional Program) Programmatic
data from students that have graduated between 7/1/11 & 6/30/12:
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# of Semesters for Normal Completion Time Frame of Program
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6
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Average # of Semesters to Completion**
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% of Students Completing in Normal Time Frame:
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Program Costs per Semester:
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Tuition
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$6,350
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Room & Board***
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$2,191
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Estimated Books & Fees
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$500
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Median Loan Debt (Federal/Private/Institution) of Program Completers*:
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Information provided below represents Institutional data
from attending UAT students between 7/1/11 & 6/30/12:
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Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid (FA) during 12 month period**
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83%
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Average % of Tuition Covered by FA during 12 month period**
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100%
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Average Amount of Scholarship/Grant Awards during 12 month period**
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$7,126
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*Median Loan Debt is calculated using the debt that students incurred during their duration at the University.
**Item not required disclosures but included for potential enhancement to information.
***Rate is that of a shared room and bath per semester based upon a 12-month lease.
****Median Loan Debt and On Time completion percentage not posted based on Department of Education guidance with respect to small programs.