Enterprise Systems masters course

yer man!

Has anyone done the enterprise systems masters course? would you recommend it or do you think it has benefited you?

Kajaga

This is a long shot but did anyone on here complete this? Can anyone offer any insight?

ToddyDoody

I did. Probably a bit late to be responding at this stage.

A lot of group course work / continuous assessment which takes the emphasis off the exams, which can be good. Heavy workload sometimes though. I can remember being pained writing reports, especially during semester 1.

Safety and Risk Management has 5 field trips in Semester one. There's no exam on a few modules, just continuous assessment.

It's an applied course. Some of the content might not be the most glamorous / interesting but it is geared towards industry and is good on the cv.

The drop out rate was low in my year, just one former arts graduate dropped out.

Had a few mechanical, civil and industrial engineering graduates on the course. Also some commerce and science (me) people. All completed the course and in some form of related employment (though one re-trained to accountany)

As it's a taught masters, there is a Summer-time thesis. This can be hard work if you want to do well, and it'll need to be on a practical / applied topic. Lean Six Sigma was a popular thesis topic / module the year I did it.

All of my lectures fell on a Monday and Tuesday which was a great help.

Kajaga

Thanks very much for the response! And it's well timed, I'm starting this course next week. You mentioned a heavy workload but that the lectures were only 2 days a week, do you think it's doable to maintain a part time job during this year or is the workload too heavy?

Thanks again!

ToddyDoody

Kajaga wrote: »

Thanks very much for the response! And it's well timed, I'm starting this course next week. You mentioned a heavy workload but that the lectures were only 2 days a week, do you think it's doable to maintain a part time job during this year or is the workload too heavy?

Thanks again!

No probs.

The lectures for me happened to be Monday and Tuesday with practically a 9-5 schedule. This may have just been luck.

Someone in my year completed the course while working part time so it is do-able. (she was possibly even funded by the company)

I would play it by year though. There's a two year part time option for people who are working full-time in industry to complete the course while working reduced hours. For the one year option, working in e.g. a bar the weekends / some weeknights should be ok. Anything heavier than that could be difficult, though there's always one that never shows up to lectures and still passes, as was the case with us!