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Management Information
Systems (MIS) Option Website Welcome to the MIS Option website. This site contains news and information about the MIS Option and is maintained by the MIS faculty. Suggestions about how to improve this site should be sent to Dr. Dave Sullivan, MIS Option Coordinator. Job Outlook The US Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests "Job increases will be driven by very rapid growth in computer systems design and related services, which is projected to be one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. economy." ComputerWorld says, "Computer science graduates and other students leaving college with IT skills appear to be in demand: Starting salary offers are up, according to a recent report, and university officials say that IT recruiters are crowding campuses." |
Overview
The Management Information Systems Option provides a solid foundation in business administration while preparing you for a career in business management information systems. Graduates from the college's MIS program have become programmers, business process analysts, quality control managers, data modelers, teachers, system's analysts, software compliance testers and more.
Why MIS?
Management Information Systems comprises the analysis and organization of information through the application of technology. As such it blends core concepts of management and information and systems theory with computer science and engineering methods and technologies to manage an organization's data.
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Chris Lee, an MIS Option student, prepared this video showing the sort of activities MIS students do. It is a 25M file so it may take a healthy Internet connection to play well. |
'Information,' is a funny thing. Unlike material commodities it can be copied without reducing the original resource. Also, the cost for storing and transporting information is low and advances in technology throughout history, from the invention of the printing press to the advancement of the World-Wide Web, have pushed these costs ever lower. Because these technologies allow information to accumulate at increasing rates and become easier to transport, dramatic changes are taking place in the geographic distribution of employment and business opportunities, both nationally and internationally.
Studying information systems involves, among other things, learning how to design, build and evaluate these systems. To do this, we must develop an intricate understanding of the information needs of the organization, the business processes that generate and consume information, the roles of people and working groups in this process and the efficiency of these processes. We furthermore must develop a thorough understanding of the nature of the data involved in these processes including the data's persistence, transience, ownership and binary nature. Based on this understanding, supplemented with a good grasp of the available technologies, we can then design and build a set of technical and managerial tools that contribute to a problem's solution or the realization of a business opportunity.
Studying MIS also involves learning about the various organizations involved in the development and standardization of information technologies and the implications of the technical choices organizations make. This implies we must learn how to evaluate and measure the effects of these choices on the behavior and performance of the host organizations.
The MIS option of the OSU Business Undergraduate degree prepares you for a career in business management information systems. The business degree provides a solid foundation in business administration, to which the MIS option adds an emphasis on business information systems. Graduates from the college's MIS program have widely varying careers. A few choose to become programmers, but most others become business process analysts, quality control managers, data modelers, teachers (yes, it happens!), system's analysts, software compliance testers, or something else entirely. Some students, especially those with a dual option, find ways to specialize in the MIS aspects of a specific business discipline. An example would be those with a double Accounting and MIS option who establish a career in accounting information systems.
