Master of Business Administration: Management Information Systems
Master of Business Administration: Management Information Systems
Management Information Systems Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Why an MBA Concentration in Management Information Systems (MIS)?
Technology choices shape how organizations operate, communicate, protect information, serve customers, manage data, and invest resources. Decisions about systems and digital capabilities can influence efficiency, security, service quality, scalability, and the ability to respond when business needs change. Management Information Systems (MIS) provides a business-oriented perspective on those choices, helping professionals evaluate how technology supports processes, where it creates risk or constraint, and what organizations need from their information systems.
MIS connects technology with the way work gets done. That can involve designing and implementing systems, managing technology projects, protecting information and infrastructure, organizing data, supporting electronic commerce, and evaluating emerging technologies. These decisions often require tradeoffs among cost, functionality, security, usability, integration, and long-term maintainability. They also require attention to implementation: a technically capable system still has to fit business processes, connect with existing infrastructure, meet organizational requirements, and be adopted effectively by the people who use it.
Students can shape the MIS Concentration around the technology and information-system questions they want to examine more deeply. Depending on the courses selected, they can explore systems design and implementation, project management, information security, data infrastructure, electronic commerce, or emerging technology topics. That focused perspective can complement work in analytics, operations, finance, marketing, supply chain, and management, where technology and information systems increasingly shape how organizations make decisions and carry out business activity.
Planning Note for Rowan MIS Graduates
Students who completed Rowan’s undergraduate Management Information Systems major may want to consider whether another MBA concentration would provide greater academic differentiation from their prior coursework.Concentration Details
Requirement: 9 credits; select 9 credits from approved Management Information Systems courses. For the STEM MBA, select 9 credits from the STEM-designated options.
Approved options allow students to emphasize systems design and implementation, project management, security, data infrastructure, electronic commerce, or emerging technology topics while maintaining a business perspective on how information systems are managed and used across organizations.
Concentration courses may also be taken as graduate business electives when students satisfy any listed Foundations and prerequisites.
*STEM-designated course. For degree-level requirements, see the STEM MBA.
Course Details
MIS 02515 – Electronic Commerce (STEM*)
This course will introduce students to electronic business. It will cover such diverse issues as: e-commerce payment mechanisms, encryption and authentication of data, web assurance, electronic data interchange, legal issues on the web, and web marketing. There will also be a lab component that will provide students with exposure to and practice in web page design and creation.
MIS 02522 – Systems Analysis and Design (STEM*)
This course explains the methodology and techniques in analysis and design of computer information systems. The systems analyst, the architect of information systems, is a liaison between user and programmer. The roles and responsibilities of the systems analyst are emphasized at all stages of the systems development life cycle.
MIS 02525 - Project Management
In this course, students will learn the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as put forward by the professional association, the Project Management Institute (PMI). Students will not only study the various phases and documents of project management, they will also have experience creating each of the documents for a given project.
MIS 02530 – Information Security for Managers (STEM*)
This course is designed to provide students an overview of the strategies and skills required to develop and manage an Information Security Program. The course focuses primarily on information security governance, program development and management, incident management and risk management. Students will gain the skills needed to establish information security strategies, build and manage an information security program, prepare for and respond to security incidents and business continuity planning.
MIS 02538 – Database Design (STEM*)
This course explores the fundamentals of designing a database. It emphasizes the relational model; however, the course also explores the hierarchical and network models. Additionally, the course covers such topics as data insertion, modification, and extraction using SQL. CASE tools and database management tools will be employed.
MIS 02599 – Special Topics in Management Information Systems (STEM*)
Students will study advanced level topics in Management Information Systems. The exact topics to be covered will change over time. Contact the MBA office or the Management and MIS Department for details.
Management Information Systems Certificate Option
The Management Information Systems Certificate of Graduate Study combines the MBA Core course in MIS with 9 credits of specialized MIS coursework. For students who complete the COGS before entering the MBA, the coursework can satisfy both the MBA Core MIS requirement and the Management Information Systems Concentration.
