Since many years HAN University of Applied Sciences offers the master program information Systems Development.

This implies paying attention to latest methodologies, techniques and operational tool support covering the complete information systems life cycle, emphasising project management, analysis and design and application development (including the use of application generators for Windows and Web).

Objectives

Students acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed for designing and developing information systems.

Typical topics are:

• Business administration, information management and project management.
• Transactional and analytical information systems and their role in the business.
• Business function/process modeling.
• Conceptual information modeling and derivation of optimal database/datawarehouse designs.
• Selection and application of appropriate modeling and development methods and supporting tools.
• Making well-founded design choices at the technical level.
• Metadata management principles and metadata management application in practice.
• Model to model transformation and model transformation automation.

Latest changes to the program

Apart from the above mentioned topics, in the program students get also theoretical and practical insight in tool architectures and principles and technologies that can be used for realizing application generators and tool-interconnectivity by developing tool bridges. HAN University is well known for its leading position with respect to research on these subjects conducted in the competence group data architectures & metadata management which is tightly connected to the Master.

Admission requirements

Applicants are registered as students at HAN. In order to be admitted students must be graduated of a Bachelor degree in Engineering (list of marks GPA 2.8 or more) and have sufficient knowledge of the English language (TOEFL score 550 or more/ IELTS score 6.0 or more).

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