MIS professionals are the “communication bridges” between IT and the business community. They analyze, design, implement, and manage IT applications and strategies to help solve business problems. MIS students first learn business processes and then analyze how to improve the processes using IT.

MIS professionals secure positions in website design and development, consulting, security risk assessment, internet marketing, Sarbanes-Oxley audit control, business analysis, customer relationship management consulting, eCommerce, legal forensics, medical records automation, enterprise resource planning, and supply chain management.

Eller College MIS students are prepared for the future because they learn more than technical skills — they learn how to apply technical skills in support of business processes.

A key component of the program is a Masters project. It enables a student to purpose an area of his/her interest and study it in-depth, sometimes in conjunction with a summer internship project. The project is usually defined in the second semester of a student’s 17 month program and completed in the third semester. With a summer internship in-between, a student can spend close to 8 months to work on a meaningful project. This varies of course if a student is in an accelerated one year program.  For each project, a student generally has a faculty mentor to help guide the project. Typically, depending on the nature of the project, it may eventually result in an application prototype (exploration of a technology) or an in-depth paper (if it is a major case study or a research on a particular topic).

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