Computer Information Systems, in cooperation with the Departments of Criminal Justice, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering, offers a Master of Science degree in  Information Assurance. The 30-credit hour program is designed to produce rigorously and comprehensively educated leaders to engage in protecting the nation's information infrastructure. Information Assurance is a key element in homeland security and is also vitally important to businesses as protection against theft.

The College of Business Administration has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for 2004-07. Only 59 universities have received this designation.

The College of Business Administration now offers a Master of Science in Business Turnaround Management. Students can also earn an MBA with a full concentration in Business Turnaround and Transformation Management or earn a graduate certificate in the program. According to the Turnaround Management Association in Chicago, UDM is the first graduate school to offer a graduate certificate within the MBA on Turnaround Management.

UDM offers the Master of Science in Product Development, one of only four such programs offered in the U.S., through a partnership with MIT and six international corporations with funding from the National Science Foundation. The program is offered jointly with the College of Business Administration and the College of Engineering and Science.

Black Issues in Education has consistently ranked UDM's MBA program among the top 40 programs in the nation for the number of African Americans awarded the MBA.

The College of Business Administration's chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma was named as one of 40 premier chapters in the nation and qualified to participate in the national BGS scholarship program. UDM is one of less than two dozen universities nationally that has been eligible to participate in the scholarship program since its inception eight years ago.