The School of Information Sciences in the Faculty of Arts offers a graduate program leading to the Graduate Diploma in Information Management and the Master of Information Sciences (MSI) degree.
Full-time or part-time master’s in information science students take six compulsory core courses during the first year of the program, as well as a capstone project during the last year. quarter.
The master’s program offers three options for obtaining the credits necessary for the MSI degree: master’s degree with coursework, master’s degree with thesis and master’s degree in cooperative education (co-op). The co-op option, which is only offered to full-time students, only has a limited number of internships per year. In all cases, you must take at least 25% of the courses in your second language.
Career prospects for graduates of the MSI program are numerous and diverse: controlled vocabulary specialists, digital documentation curators, information architects, knowledge management analysts, library directors, metadata managers, data analysts privacy, archivists and website content managers, to name a few.
NOTE: The University of Ottawa offers a partial tuition fee waiver scholarship to French-speaking international students. This significant contribution to financing their study project allows for a considerable reduction in tuition fees.
To benefit from the partial exemption scholarship, international students must:
- accept an offer of admission to a program of study offered only in French;
OR
- have completed secondary or post-secondary studies in French for at least two years and have obtained their diploma; And
- register for compulsory courses in French if these courses are given in both official languages (French and English).
