麻省理工大学的信息管理是工学院(School of Engineering)和商学院(Sloan School of Management)合办的，专业是System Design & Management系统设计和管理，偏重于产品创新与设计(诸如航天系统，汽车系统，信息技术，软件工程，生物工程，投资理财，供应链管理，消费电子，数字媒体和纳米技术等等)。SDM的课程设置是偏工科的，核心的课程都是与系统设计有关的，综合系统设计和管理两方面的知识的，例如系统架构、系统工程和系统项目管理等。
学校的录取要求对工作经验有严格限制，要求技术层面的工作经历同时还需要具备管理经验。
Hold an MS in engineering or an equivalent degree and have three or more years of professional experience in a technical field, including some leadership experience
OR
Hold a BS degree in engineering or a hard science and have five or more years of professional engineering experience, preferably combined with some graduate engineering education
而这个专业对于申请人硬性条件的要求是IELTS7.5，特别需要提示大家的是这所学校不收托福成绩(Please note that SDM no longer accepts TOEFL scores.)
New York University
纽约大学的MSIS(Master of Science in Information Systems)是由柯朗特研究所(Courant Institute)d的计算机系与斯特恩商学院(Stern)合办的项目，特别吸引人的可以选修斯特恩商学院MBA的课程，含金量非常高。这个项目总共是13门课程，其中商学院提供5门课程，计算机系提供另外六门课程，最后的两门课留给学生，可以从商学院或计算机系选择。
纽约大学的这个专业在申请的时候要求有一年的工作经验，并且有详细的规定：
At least one year full-time experience in a demanding position
Evidence of leadership and management potential
Evidence of ability to excel professionally in a corporation
纽约大学这个专业也是针对于计算机背景比较强的技术人士开设的，除了工作经验要求是技术型岗位，在专业知识上也有具体要求：
The minimum prerequisite background for admission to the MS program consists of：
1 Languages: Deep working knowledge of C and familiarity with object-oriented concepts and work with some object-oriented language such as Java or C++(熟练掌握C或C++ Java等面向对象编程语言)
2 Data structures and mathematics: Understanding and working knowledge of pointers, lists, stacks, queues, trees, arrays and recursion; induction, order of magnitude growth, probability and elementary combinatorics, set notation.(熟练掌握数据结构)
3 Working familiarity with windows and Unix. 掌握Windows以及Unix系统
4 Knowledge of assembly language (e.g. Intel or Motorola) sufficient to understand self-modifying code. 了解汇编语言