Program Overview

Master of Science in People Analytics

Curriculum

The Master of Science in People Analytics program at Illinois Institute of Technology is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the field. The curriculum includes:

• IO Psychology Core Courses (9 credit hours)
  • PSYC 511: Psychometric Theory (3 credit hours)
  • PSYC 529: Personnel Selection and Evaluation (3 credit hours)
  • PSYC 556: Organizational Psychology (3 credit hours)
• Statistics and Data Science Courses (15 credit hours)
  • PSYC 545: Graduate Statistics I (3 credit hours)
  • PSYC 546: Graduate Statistics II (3 credit hours)
  • CS 425: Database Organization (3 credit hours)
  • CS 422: Data Mining (3 credit hours)
  • or CS 484: Introduction to Machine Learning
  • CSP 571: Data Preparation and Analysis (3 credit hours)
• Internship (3 credit hours)
  • PSYC 558: Industrial Psychology Internship I (3 credit hours)
• Electives (6 credit hours)
  • Select 6 credit hours from the following:
    • PSYC 517: Performance Appraisal Seminar (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 531: Organizational Attitudes and Behavioral Seminar (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 532: Occupational Health Psychology (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 535: Seminar in Personnel Selection (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 552: Legal Issues in Human Resource Management (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 555: Seminar in Industrial Training (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 588: Graduate Psychology Seminar (3 credit hours)
    • PSYC 714: Assessment Centers (1.5 credit hours)
    • PSYC 720: Individual Assessment for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (1.5 credit hours)
    • PSYC 722: Consulting Fundamentals (1.5 credit hours)
    • PSYC 723: Machine Learning in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (1.5 credit hours)