With the ever-accelerating pace of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science—and the immense potential these technologies hold for the business world—organizational leaders must be cognizant of the latest tech, forecast its deployment, and anticipate policy to remain competitive. The Master of Professional Studies in IT Leadership and Strategy at SCPS—a distinctive degree encompassing leadership, strategy, and technical skills—cultivates strong, forward-thinking IT professionals and aspiring business leaders for this contemporary reality.

The program blends concepts from IT and business with an understanding of governance, risk assessment, and security to help professionals strengthen critical leadership and strategic thinking skills to position organizations for sustainable success. It also incorporates Loyola’s commitment to social justice, inviting an earnest examination of the moral and ethical implications of new technologies, data mining, and other leading-edge issues.

Courses taught by practitioners in the field—chief information officers and directors of technology programs among them—ensure a focus on market application, a priority of the Computer Science Program Advisory Committee (CSPAC).

The SCPS group monitors curriculum design, workforce development, and industry alignment to keep programs like the MPS in IT Leadership and Strategy relevant and future ready.