How many MIS majors do we have here?

[MiniThug]

I am still trying to decide what to choose as my major. Lately I have been looking into MIS and I was just wondering if any of you chose that as your major as well. For those of you who have graduated, what are you doing now? From a students viewpoint, what does MIS consist of? What type of workload did you experience? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated as well. Thank you all!

 

[Windogg]

Major: Accounting and Business Law
Minor: MIS
Job: IT Manager/Network Admin

MIS is more mamagement and business related than hands on technical. A lot of it is interfacing with the geeks and suits. A lot of people that did MIS in my school mostly went into consulting. I just happen to like working on the tech part and most of past experience was on tech so I went on to do networking.

Windogg

 

[MiniThug]

I am interested in both computers and business. I do not want to get seperate degrees though. I may be under the wrong impression, but I thought that MIS dealt with the tech area of business. I was split two ways between computer science and business, so I thought MIS might be a good comprimise. What do you think?

 

[Valhalla1]

MIS here

 

[KB]

MIS is a Management, database, network, web development, administration degree. Thats why I choose it. Well that and its easy. I figured with an MIS degree I could do computer stuff, like programming and networking then move into management when I got old and couldn't do anything else.

 

[nateholtrop]

MIS MIS MIS MIS!!! whoot whoot....I am going into the hardware aspect/networking it is my belief that programmig kills you.

Nate

 

[DarkRipper]

I work in MIS. I took a degree in Computer Cartography, a BS. I am also a MCP...

I say go for it, you will always have a job as long as you keep current.

DR

 

[MiniThug]

Bedtime Bump

 

[ElFenix]

MIS = Microsoft Indentured Servant

if you want to be a VBC (visual basic cowboy) and impress people with your ability to use two dimensionaly arrays, you should be an MIS major. i've gotten tons of horror stories from techs who have MIS majors hired in their companies (tivoli, trilogy, etc) only to discover they don't know crap cuz they aren't taught a damned thing except how to aminister SQLserver.

 

[poop]

It really depends on the school. Some schools have stronger programs than others. It is like that with CIS at my school. CIS is where all the Computer Engineering dropouts go. My experience is that they are usually lazy and don't want to tough out the harder workload. So they end up 'programming' in VB and writing HTML. They do end up with more business classes, but not quite enough to be useful.

Then again, other schools really do prepare people for the future. So it really depends on where you are going to school. A good copmany will know from both the interview and school reputation if you got a good background or not.

 

[MiniThug]

I was planning on Texas A&M, any idea on how their program is?

 

[DarkRipper]

You should work on a A+ cert, desktop support will always be needed, even when your programming language dies and you haven't been working on training in a new one.

DR

 

[pmark]

The reason why most MIS majors aren't good programmers is that they aren't suppose to be programmers in the first place, they are meant to be designers!

They design computer solutions to business problems, then are suppose to handle off the coding to the programmers. Simple as that.

Where places go wrong is that they hire MIS people to do the coding and then wonder why they don't know how to code in X language off the bat!

 

[pmark]

Oh and I was a MIS major, but I'm now a programmer. The skills that you learn in MIS won't be coding skills, but more management skills, interaction skills, etc.

I think MIS is good to start out in and then when you go to grad school, you can then decide whether you would like to go more on the management side or more of the technical side.