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Choosing IS Academic Choices and Career Opportunities: Putting the Pieces Together

Choosing IS Academic Choices and Career Opportunities: Putting the Pieces Together. Agenda. Why IS? Academic Choices Curriculum Majors Minors Career Opportunities. Why IS?. 1. According to the U.S Bureau of Labor, total employment among computing professionals has exceeded 5.8 million.

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Choosing IS Academic Choices and Career Opportunities: Putting the Pieces Together

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  1. Choosing ISAcademic Choices andCareer Opportunities: Putting the Pieces Together

  2. Agenda Why IS? Academic Choices Curriculum Majors Minors Career Opportunities

  3. Why IS? 1. According to the U.S Bureau of Labor, total employment among computing professionals has exceeded 5.8 million. 2. The U.S Bureau of Labor also estimates a 53% increase in computing application engineers over the next 10 years. 3. Nearly half of Fortune Magazine’s Fastest-Growing Professional Jobs are computing and information technology positions.

  4. Why IS? Technology Salaries • $75,500 annual average wage • 86% more than the average U.S. private sector wage. Fastest Growing Occupation 10 Year Forecast. • 36% + Computer Engineers • 36% + MIS/CIS/Info Science • 35% + Technical Support Specialist • 20% + Computer Programmer

  5. Why IS? • Information Technology is pervasive in society, its impact is only going to increase. • There are few businesses that utilize no Information Technology • Women took on slightly more than half of U.S. jobs created in the first part of the decade and made gains in securing the most lucrative openings. • Increase in females faculty and postdoctoral students across the nation.

  6. Business Administration Program Requirements Program Length – 120 hours General Education – 60 to 72 hours Business Core – 30 hours Business Electives – 18 to 30 hours

  7. Program Choices in IS B.S. in Information Systems BA 2800 5 Core Courses 2 Electives Minor in Information Systems BA 2800 (Core Course) 4 Electives

  8. IS Major Highlights BA 2800 Java Track 2 Courses One Programming Course One Programming Course Database Management Systems Analysis Java 2 + Two IS Electives Systems Design

  9. IS Minor Highlights BA 2800 4 IS Electives: Legacy Systems (Cobol) Java Programming Systems Analysis Enterprise Information Systems Telecommunications Decision Support Systems .Net Programming (VB/C#) Database e-Commerce Web Design Security and IS Systems Design Accounting/Finance and IS Marketing and the Internet

  10. IS Area Highlights IS Mentoring Club IS Programming Club Web Development Corps IS Lab List Serve Faculty involved in practitioner - based research

  11. Systems Analysis and Design “Real World” application of classroom knowledge Real clients with real business needs Great experience Differentiation from other majors during interviews

  12. Sample Analysis and Design Projects

  13. Careers in Information Systems Programmer / Software Engineer Systems or Business Analyst Project Manager Quality Assurance and Testing Data Administration Database Administration / Data Modeling Systems Administration Systems Operator Technical Writer Implementation Coordination Governance (Technical Spend Decisions) Customer Support Logistics and others…..

  14. Where do UMSL MIS Majors Work? MasterCard International 110 SBC 85 Boeing Company 60 Edward Jones 48 Accenture 25 A.G. Edwards 18 Anheuser-Busch Companies 17 CitiMortgage, Inc. 16 University of Missouri-St. Louis 15 Nestle Purina PetCare 12 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 11 Monsanto Company 11 IBM Corporation 10 GenAmerica Financial Corporation 9 Amdocs, Inc. 8 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri 8 US Bank 8 Maritz, Inc. 7 Union Pacific Corporation 7 Brown Group, Inc. 6 CAP Gemini Ernst & Young 6 Electronic Data Systems Corporation 6 Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis 6 Solutia, Inc. 6 United Parcel Service 5 Ameren Corporation 4 BJC Healthcare 4 ITT Corporation 4 Scottrade 4

  15. What is the difference between IS and CS? IS teaches you how to exploit information technologies to solve business problems andgain competitive advantage. CS teaches you how to write code and concentrates on the how of programming, not the why.

  16. The MIS Profession InformationSystems & Information Technology The Business Users Supply Chain Business Processes The IS Professional Bridges The Gap And Creates Value

  17. Conclusion http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/business/mis/index.html Area Coordinator: Ashok Subramanian (314) 516-6279 subramaniana@umsl.edu

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