Business Administration - MIS (A.O.S.)

Embedded in a conceptual framework of information technology, the A.O.S. degree program in Business Administration with MIS integrates professional-core courses in a business administration configuration. The MIS program prepares students for both management and information-technology positions in private and public-sector organizations. ASA's associate degree program in Business Administration with MIS is reliably valid in content and process.

The program reflects a hybrid of business theories and technical training. Students develop competencies in programming languages that will enable them to use it in information resource management, and in the process, bridge the technological-organizational chasm. The MIS curriculum is supplemented with general education courses and electives. Through these courses, students acquire a variety of intellectual and personal competencies that generally characterize successful business analysts. The program stresses lucid, rational, and methodic thinking. Optimal problem-solving and decision-making skills are reinforced as ruling principles of the coursework. With admirable devotion, faculty members are resolute in orienting students toward career empowerment and assertiveness. Adequate exposure to the relatedness of theory and practice are provided the students as they anticipate the world of work.

The A.O.S. program solidifies the prospect of continuing with the aim of acquiring a baccalaureate degree in business administration. Articulation agreements with select four-year-degree institutions afford the convenience of credit transfers.

Business Administration with Management Information Systems offers a number of occupational alternatives.Graduates can be employed as business analyst, information resource consultant, or information security operative.Further, graduates may be employed as office technology specialists and managers of information systems at small and medium-size institutions.

The Associate of Occupational Studies degree program in Business Administration with Management Information Systems requires the successful completion of 63 semester credit hours for graduation.

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