The top 10 ranked Fox BBA Major in Management Information Systems (MIS) produces leaders who initiate, design, and apply technology to transform business functions and produce innovative products and services: You will learn how to:
- Initiate and lead technology enabled change (e.g., act as a change agent in a large firm)
- Analyze and design innovative digital products and services (e.g., create and implement the social media strategy for a new start-up)
- Apply IT to automate and improve business processes (e.g., patient information system for a hospital)
- Transform a business function with IT (e.g., use iPhone apps to reach new customers)
- Analyze clients, specify needs, integrate applications, and manage projects (e.g., select and acquire a new web conferencing system)
- Leverage the Fox MIS student organization to engage with industry and network with your peers
Students have access to:
- Scholarships
- Direct job placement, internship opportunities, job interviews
- Mentoring program with industry professionals
- Professional development, career counseling
- Nationally connected student professional organization
- Creation of an e-portfolio to showcase your skills
Our students are different?
- We prepare our students to be come leaders using technology-enabled products and services.
- Courses feature extensive hands-on projects, teamwork, and use of high-end technology.
- Students look for jobs that are at the intersection of the needs of large IT firms, smaller entrepreneurial firms, and traditional large business.
- Our students successfully compete in a new world in which traditional large corporations continue to streamline their IT operations but grow as they add new technologically enhanced innovative capabilities
Students are focusing on a unique set of themes
The MIS major at Fox has three distinctive elements:
Connected
- Designed in partnership with MIS Industry Advisory Board
- Extensive networking and placement opportunities through Fox’s Institute of Business and Information Technology and exclusive Fox Center for Student Professional Development
- Fox MIS faculty and students work on real-world projects that address current industry trends and problems
Recognized
- Fox is ranked number 1 worldwide for research
- Fox is one of the largest and most highly-ranked business schools
- Ranked Top 10 in the U.S. by TechRepublic and The Chronicle of Higher Education
Innovative
- Learn the latest technologies: app development, mobile comuting and social media
- Exclusive interactive case study provides real world experience
- Curriculum is first in the country to focus on integration as a unifying theme
Career options
- Business analyst
- Data analyst
- Information systems / project manager
- Consultant
- App developer
- Systems architect
Learn more
- Read the material on Why Fox MIS? and What is MIS?
- Review the qualifications of our internationally recognized faculty
Relevant links
- Fox School of Business and Management
- Temple University Undergraduate Bulletin FSBM/MIS
- College Graduation Requirements
- Undergraduate course descriptions