Employers
Our students work or have worked at a variety of local, national and international organizations, including:
- Air Force Research Lab
- Analog Devices
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer Corporation
- BAE Systems
- Biogen Idec, Inc.
- Children's Hospital, Boston
- Cisco Systems
- Comverse, Inc.
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- Eaton Vance
- EMC
- Fidelity Investments
- General Dynamics
- Genetics Institute
- Genzyme Corporation
- Gillette
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- Intel Corporation
- Keane, Inc.
- Lucent Technologies
- Macromedia
- MathWorks, Inc.
- Millennium Pharmaceuticals
- New Balance
- Oracle Corporation
- Parametric Technology Corporation
- Rational Software Corporation
- Raytheon
- State Street Corporation
- Sun Microsystems
- Synta Pharmaceuticals
- Verizon
- Wyeth
Positions
At GPS you'll study with individuals with titles such as:
- Application Developer
- Assistant Controller
- Associate Attorney
- Business Analyst
- Bioresearch Technician
- CIO
- Communication Specialist
- Computational Biologist
- Database Administrator
- Documentation Specialist
- Electrical Engineer
- Library Systems Coordinator
- Network Administration
- Nurse
- President-CEO
- Product Manager
- Product Support Specialist
- Programmer/Analyst
- Project Manager
- Project Scientist
- Publisher
- QA Manager
- Scientist
- Software Engineer
- System Analyst
- Technical Project Analyst
- Unix System Administrator
- Web Developer
Current Student Profile
Our part-time students are working professionals who find the combination of theoretical and applied knowledge immediately applicable to their work and an asset to their continued professional development.
Characteristics
- Middle to upper-middle management, seeking applied knowledge
- Often financially supported by their employers in pursuing more education
- Often holders of other graduate degrees and professional credentials such as M.B.A., C.P.A., M.S., M. Eng.
- Generally in their 30s and 40s, with some building second or third careers
- 26 percent female, 74 percent male
- 25 percent international students
Age Range
Degrees Awarded
Over the past 10 years, GPS has awarded more than 700 degrees to its professional students. In 2008, 121 master's degrees were awarded as follows: 68 Master of Software Engineering, 7 Master of Science in Bioinformatics, 14 Master of Science in Program Management and 32 Master of Science in Information Technology.
