The Graduate Mis Course in the Schools and Colleges of Business

Abstract:A survey of AACSB Schools and Colleges of Business that offer graduate programs indicates that even though more schools are creating independent departments of management/computer information systems, the graduate mis course is similar to the undergraduate mis course in about half of the schools and a course later in the program (with a number of prerequisites) in about half of the schools. Due to this disparity in responding schools, the results are mixed. The topics covered by most schools have been covered in mis courses for a number of years. More recent topics such as strategic uses of mis, end-user computing, and artificial intelligence are foreseen for the future by some respondents, but they do not appear to have made inroads into the content of the graduate mis course.Key Words and Phrases:: mis educationgraduate mis course Notes1 The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments, which helped to improve the quality of the paper.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJatinder N. D. GuptaJatinder N. D. Gupta is Professor and Chairperson of Management Science, Adjunct Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Industry and Technology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He holds a B.E. from Delhi University, an M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Co-author of a textbook in Operations Research, Dr. Gupta has published numerous research and technical papers in such journals as Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Systems Management. He serves on the editorial board of several journals, has been the departmental editor of the IIE Transactions, and is a member of several professional societies including the American Production and Inventory Control Society. Dr. Gupta's primary research interests include production planning and scheduling systems, information systems education, and information systems and management science implementation in organizations.Irmtraud S. SeeborgIrmtraud S. Seeborg is Associate Professor of Management Science at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. She holds a Diploma in Mathematics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, an MBA from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Her publications have appeared in Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Human Resources, and other journals. Dr. Seeborg is a member of the Academy of Management.