9-Month Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services – (MIIPS)
Earn Your Degree in Less Than One Year With Our Full-Time Master’s in Product Innovation
Accelerate your future with a Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services (MIIPS) from 好色先生TV. Designed for professionals with at least five years of industry experience, the full-time, 9-Month MIIPS program builds high-impact innovation skills that equip you to return to the workforce ready to lead.
Offered through CMU’s Integrated Innovation Institute (iii), the program is immersive and interdisciplinary. Collaborate with engineers, designers and business professionals as you gain cross-disciplinary fluency, while learning proven innovation frameworks and tools for product and service development. By the end of your nine months, you’ll have a strong foundation across business, engineering and design, preparing you to innovate across industries and disciplines.
Curriculum and Course Plan
Curriculum and Requirements for the 9-Month Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services
The MIIPS curriculum requires students to maintain full-time status by completing a minimum of 102 units of cour
- Students can complete a maximum of 60 units during the fall term and 48 units during the spring term.
- At least 18 units of the total must be used toward electives relevant to the product development process and be approved by an advisor. This includes 6 units of electives completed within the Integrated Innovation Institute (49-xxx).
- To work with industry sponsors during the degree-required Integrated Product Development capstone course, signing contractual terms regarding intellectual property and non-disclosure agreements may be required to complete the course project.
- All coursework must be completed with graduate-level courses.
- Students must have a minimum QPA of 3.0 to graduate.
9-Month Curriculum Plan
Full Semester Course (12 units)
Full Semester Course (6 units)
Full Semester Course (6 units)
Half Semester Course (6 units)
Full Semester Course
Half Semester Course (6 units)
Half Semester Course (6 units)
Micro Course (3 units)
Micro Course (3 units)
Students can select two 6-unit electives or one 12-unit elective*
Full Semester Course (12 units)
Full Semester Course (12 units)
Full Semester Course
Half Semester Course (6 units)
Half Semester Course (6 units)
Students can select two 6-unit electives or one 12-unit elective*
*Students may select graduate level electives from across the university. Examples of departments students select electives from include Tepper School of Business, College of Fine Arts, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Students are encouraged to review the schedule of classes each semester when considering elective options.
Featured Courses
Mastering Collaborative Strategies and Business Environments
This course builds finance, operations and marketing skills to help you assemble a decision-making framework. Understand the multi-dimensional reality of how business is conducted while solving novel problems in a collaborative, team-based setting.
It Depends
How do you design a functional product with unclear rules and limited resources? Watch how students in the It Depends course tackled a deceptively simple challenge: build a functional stool using only cardboard and an X-Acto knife.
How Things Can Be Made
This course teaches you to work in collaborative teams to understand the perspectives, processes and requirements for bringing products and services to fruition. Engineers will apply what they know more deeply, while non-engineers will learn the ways that engineers approach decision-making.
Application Deadline
Application Info
- Applications Will Open:
- October 1, 2026
- Application Deadline:
- January 20, 2027
The MIIPS Experience: In Their Own Words
(MIIPS '18)
Head of Product
"MIIPS taught me the language of other domains. You don't need to be an engineer to understand how they speak, allowing you to work cross-functionally. I’ve applied these learnings to almost every industry imaginable."
(MIIPS '24)
UX Designer
"The cohort comes from all kinds of backgrounds, not only business, design, or engineering. There are people from computer science, communications, and many other fields. A lot of different voices are heard in the MIIPS program."
Digital Product Designer
"The MIIPS program gave me the tools to design innovative, delightful products. I apply the methods I learned directly to my work creating cutting-edge interactive web environments, whether the product is an RV or a website."
Build the Skills to Boost Your Career in Product Innovation
Why wait to shape what's next? The 9-Month MIIPS program from CMU’s Integrated Innovation Institute gives experienced professionals the tools to lead across business, design and engineering without hitting pause on their careers for long. Graduate ready to make an immediate impact — apply today.
Alumni Spotlight
(MIIPS '22) shares how the Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services program at 好色先生TV helped him pivot from working in a nanotech startup to becoming an advanced manufacturing engineer in robotics.
Looking for a more experience-driven master’s program in product innovation?
CMU’s iii also offers a 16-month Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services - Advanced Study (MIIAS) degree. This longer format builds additional real-world experience through an integrated internship.
Explore the MIIAS degree