Military

Army Signal Center Graduate Partnership

Please Note: Previous Army Signal Center Courses have been discontinued.

• Army Graduate Signal Center Tentative Course Schedule

The UMUC Graduate School of Management and Technology (GSMT) is dedicated to offering you the most current career-relevant education.  Since November 2001, The Army Signal Center and UMUC have been working together to help students in the Department of the Army to achieve their graduate goals in the fields of Management and Technology.  Students can pursue a degree in the Master of Science Information Technology from UMUC.

Fall 2007 Students

Students starting in the fall 2007 can pursue a graduate degree in the Master of Science information technology.  Army Signal Center students stationed at Fort Gordon will be able to attend the following courses toward their Master of Science Information Technology:

• ITEC 610 Information Technology Foundations
• ITEC 630  Information Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Design 
• ITEC 640  Information Technology Project Management
• TMAN 625  Economics and Financial Analysis for Technology Managers. 

Pre-Fall 2007 Students:

Students (who began their program prior to fall 2007) taking courses through UMUC in pursuit of the Master of Science degrees in:

• information technology
• computer systems management
• telecommunications management

may continue to do so but will need to register using the new course names and numbers.  Students who received credit for the ITSM 600 series seminars can look up course equivalences using the Degree Map.

• Signal Seminar Degree Map

UMUC, in coordination with the U.S. Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia, offers officers, non-commissioned officers and Department of Army civilians the opportunity to continue their post-baccalaureate studies throughout their career. 

UMUC's Web-based education programs enables Army leaders to pursue various graduate degrees in the fields of Management and Technology. If you are stationed anywhere in the world, you can enroll and take UMUC courses entirely online.

If you are stationed at Fort Gordon or will be attending training there you may be able to participate in a special program, the information technology graduate seminar for junior and mid-career officers attending resident training at Fort Gordon. 

Signal FA24 and FA53 officers, and other eligible students assigned to Fort Gordon, may complete a portion of their graduate degree program in just 10 weeks while concurrently attending career or branch qualification courses.

Students will then complete remaining classes online at follow-on duty stations to obtain a graduate degree.

The first seminar was completed in November 2001 and, according to the Chief of Signal, was a huge success. 

While at the Fort Gordon seminar, students take courses that do not duplicate their military subjects. They learn basic skills as graduate students including writing, presentation, and research skills, under the live tutelage of an instructor who comes in from UMUC for the weekend course presentation.

Courses covering technology topics, similar to those received in training, are taken later when a soldier returns to his or her permanent duty station.

The impact on the soldier is to gain depth and reinforcement of the learning that took place at Fort Gordon. The net effect is a better-trained, more competent signal corps officer, who has also gained civilian recognition for completing an advanced education.