Management Sciences

Undergraduate Major in Management Information Systems

Technology-savvy business decision makers understand how to make their organizations more profitable, productive, and competitive through the use of current and emerging technologies. With a degree in management information systems (MIS), you’ll learn how to design and manage information technology that will solve business problems and help a company meet its goals and business challenges.

Graduates find satisfying positions in business with an average salary that often exceeds that of other business majors. While business graduates nationwide have done remarkably well in recent years, MIS majors have had the best success in salary offers, with an average increase of about 5% each year. In recent years, our graduates have enjoyed a 100% placement success rate, and Department of Labor statistics project a 25% growth rate in employment through the year 2014. And there’s more good news—according to the book 200 Best Jobs for College Graduates, four of the top-five job categories are IT-related.

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Iowa’s MIS Program

Understanding the language of business and information technology is a skill set sought by many companies, so many students choose to add an MIS major to another business major.

The landscape of technology is continuously changing, but Iowa’s MIS program will provide you with the knowledge and tools for a career filled with learning and growth.

MIS undergraduates take required and elective courses that balance theoretical concepts with hands-on experiential learning. In our program, you will:

  • Analyze business processes to determine information requirements and then create business solutions.
  • Learn to design and develop database applications making data available in the most appropriate manner, such as web access.
  • Develop skills that will solve network infrastructure problems including networking computers and telecommunication systems as well as providing security for such systems.
  • Bring management skills to manage information technology projects.

The department offers a number of required courses and elective courses for the MIS major. In addition, you can click on any of the courses in the following chart to read course descriptions, or you may view and print a document outlining requirements for the MIS major.

MIS Instructional Lab

Undergraduate MIS majors have access to the department's MIS Instructional Lab (located inside the Pomerantz Business Library). The lab includes computing resources and networking hardware for designing network systems, plus specialized software for web design, multimedia, and data management. Students also have access to the College's well-equipped general computer lab (the largest on campus), which is continually updated with the latest hardware and software.

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Chart of Undergraduate courses in Management Sciences

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