What’s New This Year?

New Programs

New graduate programs and catalog sections that appear for the first time in this Catalog include: 

Master’s Programs with New Concentrations

• Artificial Intelligence, M.S.  
• Economics, M.S. (Charlotte) and Finance, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Economics, M.S. (Charlotte), and International Business, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Economics, M.S. (Charlotte), and Money and Banking, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Economics, M.S. (Charlotte), and Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Entrepreneurship, M.S.  
• Financial Engineering and FinTech, M.S. (Charlotte), and Finance, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Financial Engineering and FinTech, M.S. (Charlotte), and International Business, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Financial Engineering and FinTech, M.S. (Charlotte), and Money and Banking, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Financial Engineering and FinTech, M.S. (Charlotte), and Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Financial Engineering, Graduate Certificate  
• Management, M.S. (Charlotte), and Finance, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Management, M.S. (Charlotte), and International Business, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Management, M.S. (Charlotte), and Money and Banking, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Management, M.S. (Charlotte), and Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, M.S. (NCCU, Taiwan), Dual Degree  
• Real Estate, M.S. (Charlotte) and Real Estate, M.Sc. (Regensburg), Dual Degree  

Graduate Certificate Programs

• AI for Data Science Practitioners, Graduate Certificate ​ 
• Artificial Intelligence Systems Development, Graduate Certificate  
• Financial Engineering, Graduate Certificate  
• Teaching: Health/Physical Education, Graduate Certificate  

Program Changes

Major changes to existing graduate degrees and programs include:

Discontinued Programs

• Elementary Education, M.Ed.

• Workplace Competencies, Graduate Certificate

Additional Changes

• The Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems Development, Graduate Certificate has been renamed to Artificial Intelligence Systems Development, Graduate Certificate  
• The Applied Behavior Analysis, Graduate Certificate has been renamed to Applied Behavior Analysis, Post-Master’s Certificate  
• The College of Engineering introduces the new Albert School of Construction.
• The College of Health and Human Services has combined the departments of Epidemiology and Community Health and Health Management and Policy into a new department of Public Health and Health Administration.
• The Department of Physics and Optical Science was renamed to the Ishwar Aggarwal Department of Physics and Optical Science.
• The Health Informatics and Analytics, M.S. was re-named to Data Science and Health Analytics, M.S.  
• The Mathematical Finance, M.S. was re-named to Financial Engineering and FinTech, M.S.