Explore Our Graduate Programs
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock offers graduate programs in Information Quality (IQ), including a Graduate Certificate, Master of Science, and Ph.D. track. These programs prepare students for careers in data governance, information quality management, analytics, and information science through online and on-campus study.
We are dedicated to contributing new ideas to the information quality body of knowledge and to establishing partnerships with the industry, government, and professional societies.
What is Information Quality?
Information quality is the discipline focused on ensuring data is reliable, accessible, secure, and valuable. It is concerned with maximizing the value and minimizing the risk of an organization’s information assets, and assuring the information products create value for the customers who use them.
Career opportunities include:
– Chief Data Officer
– Director of Data Governance
– Information Quality Manager
– Business Intelligence Analyst
Graduates are also prepared to pursue doctoral-level graduate studies.
Why Study Information Quality?
Organizations across healthcare, government, finance, technology, education, and business rely on accurate, trustworthy data to make critical decisions. At UA Little Rock, you’ll learn how to improve data quality, design effective information systems, develop data governance strategies, and help organizations make better decisions through information.
With the growing demand for qualified professionals, our IQ graduates:
- Can create a learning environment that promotes critical thinking, communication skills, and project management
- Are able to strategically manage enterprise data and information assets to achieve business goals, create business value, and gain competitive advantage
- Are well-versed in the concepts, principles, tools, and models essential in defining, measuring, analyzing, and improving information quality
- Can develop information quality strategies, policies, and programs to support an organization’s operational, tactical, and strategic needs
- Understand the interrelationships between information quality and other key information issues such as data privacy and protection, enterprise architecture, data mining, data science, and data integration processes such as entity resolution, master data management, and customer relationship management
- Are well-grounded in Information Science Theory and its practical application to database systems, systems analysis, and information visualization