The 32-unit M.S.E.C. degree is designed to provide a professional education for persons who are working in or planning to work in the field of electronic commerce. The 32-unit M.I.S. degree program is designed for professionals in information systems and information systems users who want to improve both their professional and management skills and do not plan to continue beyond the master's level.
Courses focus on information science issues.
The 56-unit M.S.M.I.S. degree program is designed for professionals who want a master's degree that leads to management or senior staff positions in information systems organizations or for students who plan to continue on to a doctoral program. Specially designed courses allow students in each program to be exposed to the areas emphasized in all three programs. The 76-unit Ph.D. program in the management of information systems is designed to prepare graduates to make advanced contributions in either university or applied organizational settings. Since its inception in 1987, the Ph.D. program has produced 41 graduates, more than half of whom hold faculty appointments at universities in the United States, Korea, and Israel. The comprehensive combination of the technical, organizational, and systems elements in the curricula trains future managers to interact effectively with the technical specialists within their organization and trains technical specialists to be more sensitive to the management aspects of information systems.