Overview
To complete the Management of Complex Systems (M.S.) program, students must:
- Complete at least two semesters in academic residence at UC Merced.
- Complete a minimum of 24 units of courses at the upper division and graduate levels, with at least 20 units of graded graduate (200-level) courses in the major subject, including Fundamentals I (MIST 252) and at least two Methods courses. (with letter grade B or better).
- Enroll in the Management of Complex Systems seminar (MIST 251) once for credit (S/U)
- Either pass a comprehensive exam, or give a public oral presentation and successfully defend a master's thesis containing original research.
Courses
The following is a non-exhaustive list of recommended MIST courses that have previously been offerred (docx version). See the Registrar's Course Descriptions webpage for a more up-to-date list.
Required
- MIST 251 - Graduate Seminar
- MIST 252 - Foundations I
Electives
- MIST 201 - Leadership, Organizations, and Communications
- MIST 202 - Managerial Finance and Accounting
- MIST 203 - Quantitative Tools for Management
- MIST 204 - Spatial Analytics
- MIST 205 - Technology-Enabled Service
- MIST 206 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- MIST 207 - Project and Operations Management
- MIST 208 - Law, Policy, and Risk Management
- MIST 215/ES 241 - Political Ecology
- MIST 218 - Social Reality
- MIST 220 - Service Science
- MIST 230 - Strategy & Innovation
- MIST 231 - Organizational Behavior
- MIST 240 - Operations Management
- MIST 241 - Information Systems
- MIST 254 - Systems Thinking
- MIST 261 - Qualitative Methods in Studying Innovation
- MIST 270 - Data Science
- MIST 271 - Network Science
- MIST 272/ES 232 - Stochastic Modeling
- ES 292 - Special Topics
- ES 232 - Applied Climatology
M.S. Program Sample Plan of Study
Year 1
Fall MIST 252 (4), Methods I (4), Elective I (4)
Spring MIST 251 (1), Methods II (4), Elective II (4), Elective III (3), thesis or exam
MS Concentrations
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Decision Science and Analytics. Three courses from MIST 203, 204, 260, 261, 270, 271; ES 232; or courses approved by petition to Graduate Group Chair.
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Program Management. Three courses from MIST 201, 202, 205, 206, 207, 208, 211, 215, 218, 231, 241, 254, 264; or courses approved by petition to Graduate Group Chair.
To apply, visit the UC Merced Graduate Division website.
