MS in Information Systems, Health Tech
Graduation Requirements
60 Credits
2025-2026 Academic Year
Jacobs Programmatic Core (17 credits)
- 8 credits of Studio Courses (Must be all taken for a letter grade.)
- TECH 5900 Product Studio — 4 Credits
- TECH 5910 Startup Studio, TECH 5920 BigCo Studio, or TECH 5930 PiTech Impact Studio — 3 Credits
- TECH Studio Elective — 1 Credit
Please note: TECHIE 5300, TECHIE 5310, TECHIE 5320 do not qualify as Studio electives.
- TECHIE 5901 Preparing for Spec (FA YR1) — 1 Credit
- 8 credits of Specialization (choose a track)*
- Anchor Course + Paired-Prototyping Project
- Spring (1st year): Anchor course (3 credits) + INFO 5920 (1 credit)
- Fall (2nd year): INFO 5920 (4 credits)
- Faculty-Directed Study
- Spring (1st year): Independent Study (4 credits)
- Fall (2nd year): Independent Study (4 credit)
- Anchor Course + Paired-Prototyping Project
*Students are required to enroll in the Specialization Project over the course of 2 semesters (Spring YR1, Fall YR2). More information on the different tracks can be found here.
Jacobs Technical Core (10 credits)
- CS 5112 Algorithms and Data Structures for Applications or CS 5356 Building Startup Systems — 3 Credits
- CS 5785 Applied Machine Learning or CS 5781 Machine Learning Engineering or INFO 5368 Practice & Applications of Machine Learning — 3 Credits
- INFO 6410 HCI & Design — 3 Credits
- Ethics — 1 Credit*
*Students should take an approved 1-(or more) credit course related to ethics in technology to satisfy the Jacobs Technical Core requirement. Alternatively, with Program Director approval, students can identify other courses they have completed where topics related to ethics in technology are heavily covered to waive the 1-credit requirement.
Concentration Core (9 credits)
- INFO 5360 Healthcare Organizations & Delivery (2 credits) + TECH 5999 Companion Independent Study (1 credit) — 3 Credits
- INFO 5375 Health Tech Oriented Machine Learning — 3 Credits
- 3 additional credits
Choose from available offerings from Weill Cornell and the list of classes approved for the Concentration Core requirement. There may be courses on this list that are not currently offered. Please check the Class Roster for the most up to date list of current offerings.
Concentration Electives (12 credits)
- 12 credits of approved electives
Choose from available offerings from Weill Cornell and the list of classes approved for the Concentration Electives requirement. There may be courses on this list that are not currently offered. Please check the Class Roster for the most up to date list of current offerings.
General Electives (12 credits)
- Select from any offerings on Cornell Tech’s campus (CS, ECE, ORIE, INFO, LAW, NBAY, TECH, TECHIE).
Please note: TECHIE 5310: Business Fundamentals (Fall only) must be taken as a prerequisite for all business courses.
Additional Requirements
- Cornell Tech campus policy indicates that students enrolled in full-time masters programs are required to maintain a minimum of 12 credits of enrollment each semester. Students are advised to enroll in an average of 15 credits each semester, unless your program requirements notes otherwise, to ensure progression towards degree completion.
- Students may not enroll in more than 18 credits per semester without Program Director approval, which will be granted only in exceptional circumstances.
- Please note, Curricular Practical Training credits (TECH 5999) does not count towards graduation/degree requirements.
- All classes must be taken for a letter grade (with the exception of classes that are only offered S/U).
- For Studio courses, students must receive a B or higher in TECH 5900 or TECH 5910/ TECH 5920/ TECH 5930.
- Students must receive a C- or better in all graded courses. Any course that a student receives a grade of below C-will not count towards graduation requirements.
- Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
- Students must comply with the above requirements in order to be in good academic standing. Students who are not in good standing may be asked to leave the program.
- Technion policy for students who take a leave of absence
A student considered to be in a “proper” academic state (GPA of at least 75, compliance with the expanded English/scientific English requirement) may take up to two semesters of break during the degree.
2024-2025 Academic Year
Jacobs Programmatic Core (17 credits)
- 8 credits of Studio Courses (Must be all taken for a letter grade.)
- TECH 5900 Product Studio — 4 Credits
- TECH 5910 Startup Studio, TECH 5920 BigCo Studio, or TECH 5930 PiTech Impact Studio — 3 Credits
- TECH Studio Elective — 1 Credit
Please note: TECHIE prefix classes do not qualify as Studio electives.
- TECHIE 5901 Preparing for Spec (FA YR1) — 1 Credit
- 8 credits of Specialization (choose a track)*
- Anchor Course + Paired-Prototyping Project
- Spring (1st year): Anchor course (3 credits) + INFO 5920 (1 credit)
- Fall (2nd year): INFO 5920 (4 credits)
- Faculty-Directed Study
- Spring (1st year): Independent Study (4 credits)
- Fall (2nd year): Independent Study (4 credit)
- Anchor Course + Paired-Prototyping Project
*Students are required to enroll in the Specialization Project over the course of 2 semesters (Spring YR1, Fall YR2). More information on the different tracks can be found here.
Jacobs Technical Core (10 credits)
- CS 5112 Algorithms and Data Structures for Applications or CS 5356 Building Startup Systems — 3 Credits
- CS 5785 Applied Machine Learning or CS 5781 Machine Learning Engineering or INFO 5368 Practice & Applications of Machine Learning — 3 Credits
- INFO 6410 HCI & Design — 3 Credits
- Ethics — 1 Credit*
*Students should take an approved 1-(or more) credit course related to ethics in technology to satisfy the Jacobs Technical Core requirement. Alternatively, with Program Director approval, students can identify other courses they have completed where topics related to ethics in technology are heavily covered to waive the 1-credit requirement.
Concentration Core (9 credits)
- INFO 5360 Healthcare Organizations & Delivery + TECH 5999 Companion Independent Study — 2 + 1 Credits
- INFO 5375 Health Tech Oriented Machine Learning — 3 Credits
- 3 additional credits
Choose from available offerings from Weill Cornell and the list of classes approved for the Concentration Core requirement. There may be courses on this list that are not currently offered. Please check the Class Roster for the most up to date list of current offerings.
Concentration Electives (12 credits)
- 12 credits of approved electives (includes
Choose from available offerings from Weill Cornell and the list of classes approved for the Concentration Electives requirement. There may be courses on this list that are not currently offered. Please check the Class Roster for the most up to date list of current offerings.
General Electives (12 credits)
- Select from any offerings on Cornell Tech’s campus (CS, ECE, ORIE, INFO, LAW, NBAY, TECH, TECHIE).
Additional Requirements
- Cornell Tech campus policy indicates that students enrolled in full-time masters programs are required to maintain a minimum of 12 credits of enrollment each semester. Students are advised to enroll in an average of 15 credits each semester, unless your program requirements notes otherwise, to ensure progression towards degree completion.
- Students may not enroll in more than 18 credits per semester without Program Director approval, which will be granted only in exceptional circumstances.
- Please note, as of Summer 2024, Curricular Practical Training credits (TECH 5999) does not count towards graduation/degree requirements.
- All classes must be taken for a letter grade (with the exception of classes that are only offered S/U).
- For Studio courses, students must receive a B or higher in TECH 5900 or TECH 5910/ TECH 5920/ TECH 5930.
- Students must receive a C- or better in all graded courses. Any course that a student receives a grade of below C-will not count towards graduation requirements.
- Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
- Students must comply with the above requirements in order to be in good academic standing. Students who are not in good standing may be asked to leave the program.
- Technion policy for students who take a leave of absence
A student considered to be in a “proper” academic state (GPA of at least 75, compliance with the expanded English/scientific English requirement) may take up to two semesters of break during the degree.
Additional Option
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Certificate of Accomplishment in Computer Science
Jacobs students can obtain a certificate of accomplishment from Cornell University and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute in recognition of their completion of Computer Science-related course requirements. To be eligible, students must complete 18 credits of advanced and technical courses at Cornell Tech. At least 15 of those credits must come from computer science courses that are not practicums, seminars, independent studies, or projects. Only courses that are approved by Cornell and Jacobs may be applied toward the certificate, and only those courses taken for a letter grade and where a C- or better is awarded will count toward the certificate. Most technical courses are three credits each.
Students must maintain at least a 2.5 GPA to be eligible for the certificate.
The form must be completed in its entirety to be considered. The form must be submitted by the date of Cornell graduation for all subsequent classes. Please email the Jacobs Institute if you have any questions.
Course Descriptions
Available on the Cornell University Registrar’s website.