Looking for School with a really technical MIS undergrad cirriculum

Hey please help!!!!!

I am looking for a school who offers a really technical curriculum for their undergrad MIS program. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Most MIS undergrad programs are so business heavy that you don't learn much of the technical stuff.

 

If you want a really technical degree, perhaps you should consider something other than MIS. It doesn't have to be something as hardcore as CS. You could select something like CIS or IT. I like the program a WGU, personally, because you can get a BSIT in many different sub-fields like networking, software development, web design, etc.

 

They ARE a business degree, aren't they? I know they are at Excelsior at any rate (their program was interesting me lately), I assume everywhere is the same. Maybe you are looking at the wrong major as mentioned above?

 

I would also recommend looking at CIS and adding some more CS electives wherever you can. The way that business outweighs the technical courses in an MIS program is the same way tech outweighs business in a CIS program. CS is all technical/no business and I haven't looked at BS IT programs but they might also suit your needs.

 

Excelsior's MIS degree is a business degree; it's a "concentration" like Accounting or Finance. In addition to the Business Core, you take 4 required MIS courses (databases, networking, programming and systems analysis & design) plus your choice of electives. I took e-Commerce, Project Management, and the MIS DSST, making for a management-heavy curriculum. I supplemented with Quantitative Methods and Supply Chain Management, because I developed an interest in Operations Research late in my degree. I would have liked to find Business Intelligence and/or Enterprise Architecture courses, but they were pretty rare in DL when I was looking.

One could as easily take the 4 required classes then go technical with the remaining credits, via either classes or certs. The EC catalog, in fact, mentions this in terms of a choice of "tracks" though I was not asked to declare a track.

Phillip

 

Philip,

That is what i was thinking of doing, I was thinking of majoring in MIS and minoring in IS that way I can get the technical background that I desire.

What do you guys think of this approach?