Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems

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Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration
Major: Management Information Systems
Concentration: Enterprise Systems
Hours: 120

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Enterprise Systems Overview

�鶹AV's Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems with a concetration in Enterprise Systems combines the application of technology to solve business problems with the help of large-scale IT systems. This program, which is offered both on-campus and online, will teach you how to deploy, configure and manage these systems, such as SAP, to solve business problems and gain a competitve advantage in the global marketplace.

Our department follows the model information systems curriculum designed by the Association of Information Systems. Our MIS graduates have found gainful employment in many major businesses and earn among the highest salaries in the College of Business at LU. Graduates also gain a competitive edge as they learn how to analyze, design, develop and maintain information systems that support organizational functions, along with how to work with large amounts of data to provide valuable insights and solve business problems.

An MIS professional will apply technology to integrate and support business functions such as accounting, finance, marketing and management. In your career, you will typically manage a network of information technology workers who work together to create, maintain and manage computer systems. Watch the faculty interview to learn more about this degree program and the School of Accounting and Information Systems.

Enterprise Systems Courses You May Take

IS Infrastructure: This course provides an introduction to IT infrastructure issues for students majoring in Information Systems. This course covers topics related to both computer and systems architecture and communication networks, with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that IT infrastructure solutions enable in an organizational context. It gives the students the knowledge and skills that they need for communicating effectively with professionals whose special focus is on hardware and systems software technology and for designing organizational processes and software solutions that require in depth understanding of the IT infrastructure capabilities and limitations. The course also prepares the students for organizational roles that require interaction with external vendors of IT infrastructure components and solutions. This course focuses strongly on internet based solutions, computer and network security, business continuity, and the role of infrastructure in regulatory compliance.

IS Analysis and Design: This course serves two audiences: (1) those who want to be an information systems analyst; and (2) those who will be users or managers involved in systems development projects, an active member of a project team, or the client for a system request. Since systems development is central to the IS field, this is a basic course for training you for your career. Information systems concepts, systems analysis and design methodologies and techniques and tools used during the development of information systems will be covered. Students will be exposed to both classic methods and emerging methods of systems analysis and design. The topics necessary for changing environment for systems development will be covered along with a renewed focus on agile methodologies including SCRUM.

Project Management and Practice: The student who successfully completes this course should be able to understand the genesis of project management and its importance to ensure the success of information technology projects. Students will be exposed to project management concepts and techniques such as: the triple constraint of project management, project management knowledge areas, project life cycle, tools and techniques of project management (for example: project selection criteria, work breakdown structures, network diagrams, critical path analysis, cost estimates, and schedule management). Students will learn the essentials of using Primavera P6 to plan and manage IT projects.

Fundamentals of Software Development: This course will provide the students with the fundamentals of software development using a high-level programming language. The course will focus on programming in a windows environment along with the use of a popular integrated development environment. the programming concepts that will be covered include language syntax, variable declaration, decision and iteration processing, method construction and development, data structures, object-oriented programming techniques, file I/O and database integration. Students will construct various small applications to learn the fundamentals of development leading up to a capstone project. Little or no programming experience is required for this course.

E-Commerce Design and Development: This course covers both the principles and practices of conducting business with the help of technologies providing an overview of the past and future of the discipline, business models, traditional and disruptive technologies, marketing strategies and various business systems. In addition, some of the major issues associated with e-commerce, such as security and privacy, will be explored. Also, students will conduct hands-on projects on the latest version of SAP platform, experiencing business processes on the cloud.

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Enterprise systems allow businesses to achieve high performance through distinctive capabilities and is one of the fastest growing areas of information systems. The ES used in the program is SAP—the world’s leading producer of business software. SAP has led all ES vendors with the most market share for the last several years. Today, more than 404,000 companies in more than 180 countries run SAP applications.