Rankings
The MIS Department at Eller College is proud of its successes and accomplishments including:
Rankings
- #1 in Top Performing Individual Programs by Academic Analytics
- #1 in Research Productivity by Decision Line Survey
- #1 in Faculty's Scholarly Productivity by The Chronicle of Higher Education
- #1 by U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges among all public universities and #3 overall (undergraduate program)*
- #4 by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools*
- #9 globally in IT (information technology) specialty category by Financial Times
- Exceptional by UofA's Graduate Council
* U.S.News & World Report: Our MIS program has been among the top-five MIS programs in the country for over 20 consecutive years, a record only matched by MIT and Carnegie-Mellon.
The only MIS program to generate over $80M in grants to fund research in:
- Collaborative systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Data management
- Decision making behavior
- IT management and strategies
Producing
- Over 150 doctoral students
- Over 1,200 Graduate MIS students
- Over 3,500 Undergraduate MIS majors
Establishing
The first MIS curriculum in collaboration with Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and other schools.
Research and Technology Transfer
The MIS Department at Eller College generates more research dollars annually than any other management school in the country. The cumulative amount of research funding for the MIS Department is in excess of $80 million.
A substantial portion of the research funding comes through the Center for the Management of Information, the Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the Advanced Database Research Group. Large sources have included the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and IBM. This work has led to commercial products in the areas of group systems and information sharing for law enforcement.
In addition, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s recent faculty scholarly productivity index, the MIS Department at Eller College of Management ranks #1 for 2007. (View the rankings here).
The MIS Department research excellence includes:
- Focused support in the areas of group systems in support of collaborative decision-making,
- Text mining in support of applications such as digital libraries,
- Artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems in support of security/police/health applications and web-monitoring applications,
- Semantic data management in support of combining heterogeneous data bases,
- Process flow automation/web services,
- Supply chain management, and
- IT economics and strategy.
For a complete listing of our faculty awards and accomplishments, please visit our Department and Faculty Accomplishments page.
For further information, please contact us.
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