MS Degree Program

Area of Concentration in Management Information Systems

The Management Information System concentration is designed for students who plan to integrate Information Technology into organizations. Strategic Advantage in the Internet Age has been achieved by adopting a new business model, a model that allows core competencies of Information Technology, IT management and knowledge management capability to form a single whole. This awareness has resulted in a growing need for managers at all levels of an organization to be conversant with strategies and tactics for managing IT. Our MIS concentration meets this need by exposing students to IT management concepts and theory. Interdisciplinary, project- and case-based, this concentration lays a solid foundation in several areas--systems analysis and design, IT project management, information architecture planning and design, evaluation of IT value, and the assessment of opportunities for IT-enabled process reengineering. Students with an MIS concentration find positions in IT systems departments of organizations and also in consulting. Degree Requirements The MIS concentration requires 30 credit hours of coursework (that is, 10 graduate classes), a 9 credit hour individual research project, and successful completion of a comprehensive exam. The course listings below indicate in greater detail the content of our training in MIS. The 4 Core Courses are: CIS501 Information System Design CIS502 Database Management Systems CIS504 Programming Languages and 1 of the following: CIS509 Knowledge Engineering CIS510 Software Project Management 6 Area Courses are: BA501 Management Information Systems BA503 Decision Support Systems BA508 Quantitative Methods BA509 Operations & Production Management BA512 Financial Markets and Institutions BA531 Data Mining   MS Research Project in MIS (9 credits): CIS599A, CIS599B, and CIS599C     >> For students who lack an adequate computer science background, there may be prerequisite requirements of up to seven courses within a chosen concentration. Contact us