Technology Management

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 48.9 k Foreign:$ 59.6 k Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:5993 Duration:1 year

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The Master of Technology Management (MTM) program prepares early career engineers and scientists to be leaders in technology ventures — within both startups and established companies.

This 9-month intensive program is designed to teach the frameworks, skills, and techniques you need to be a successful technology manager. No fluff, no filler.

Students focus on the challenges that are regularly encountered by managers and business leaders and the practices they employ as they work to build technology-based products and services that match (or create) market needs.

What Will I Learn in MTM?

In the MTM program, you will learn how to:

  • Recognize opportunities for a new product
  • Determine what your company needs to go after it
  • Secure the resources to develop it
  • Manage the people and processes to implement and deliver it

Through a robust combination of real-world case studies, hands-on field assignments and extracurricular interactions with engineering managers, entrepreneurs and CEOs of tech companies, students are introduced to challenges and practices that leaders regularly encounter when building technology-based products and services that match market needs. None of the Master of Technology Management course material is generic. Assignments give students the opportunity to write business models for tech startups and to re-engineer work in large companies to support tech innovation. In total, students will be exposed to more than 50 companies through their coursework, field trips and extracurricular activities.

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT?

COMPETENCIES YOU NEED

 

RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES 

(FALL)

DEVELOPING CAPABILITIES

(WINTER)

GROWING AND EXECUTING

(SPRING)

MANAGING THE MARKET

TMP 411

Economics of Competition in High Tech Industries

TMP 412

Strategy for Technology-Based Companies

TMP 413

Building Brands

MANAGING THE ORGANIZATION

TMP 421

Finance and Accounting for Technology Businesses

TMP 422

Decision Analysis

TMP 423

Technology-Based Operations

MANAGING THE PROCESS

TMP 431

Product and Market Validation

TMP 432

Project and Program Administration

TMP 433

Organizational Design for Continuous Innovation

MANAGING THE PEOPLE

TMP 441

Creating Value Through Human Capital

TMP 442

Leading Technology Teams

TMP 443

Building Strategic Partnerships

MANAGING YOURLEARNING

TMP 451

Opportunity Recognition Practicum

TMP 452A

Field Project and Leadership Practicum

TMP 452B

Field Project and Leadership Practicum

Requirements

  • Online Application: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/eapp
  • Statement of Purpose, Personal Achievements/Contributions, and Resume or CV (Submitted in the online application)
  • Three Letters of Recommendation (Submitted online. Note: At least one academic reference is required.)
  • Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended (Submitted online)
  • GRE General or GMAT test scores
  • TOEFL scores 550 Paper-Based Test (PBT), 80 Internet-Based Test (IBT) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Overall Band score of 7 or higher (if applicable)
  • MTM Admission Information Page: http://www.mtm.ucsb.edu
  • Final/Official transcripts will be required for all applicants who are admitted and have indicated their intent to enroll at UC Santa Barbara by submitting a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR). UC Santa Barbara reserves the right to require official transcripts at any time during the admissions process, and rescind any offer of admission made if discrepancies between uploaded and official transcript(s) are found.
  • Housing: Add $9,837 (based on 9 months in San Clemente Housing)  

Scholarships

  • MTM Fellowships: Available for exceptional applicants and awarded based on merit. 
  • Teaching Assistantships (TAships): pays a monthly stipend plus fees, and health insurance. Offers are subject to approval by home department.
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