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MIS GENERAL INFORMATION

In MIS department at Bakırçay University, students are taught business administration and information technologies in an interdisciplinary manner.  In this context, MIS department has three academic tracks: Information Technologies, Decision Sciences, and Information Systems. Our curriculum is designed to support courses related to these academic tracks.

 

Although MIS includes some common goals with Computer Engineering and Software Engineering programs, MIS is actually different from those departments in the way it looks to the problem. These differences are summarized in the following table.

 

 

 

Management

Information Systems

Computer

Engineering

Software Engineering

Focus

Organization

Product

Software

Goal

More efficient or effective work

Developed Engineering Product

Reliable Computer Programmes

Basic Skill

Problem solving

Engineering

Reasoning/procedure

Basic Duty

Determining work requiremnts for information systems

Determining information processing requirements for device

Present information systems to fulfill defined requirements

Theoretical and Practical

Balanced

Balanced

Practical

General Job Title

Analyst/Designer

Architect and Developer

Developer

Typical Starting Job Ttile

Operating Systems Analyst

Engineer

Application Programmer

Career Targets

Senior Organization Manager

Senior Engineer or Product Manager

Programming/Software Manager

 

Generally speaking, Computer Engineering department covers topics related to computer hardware, computer science, and software, while the Software Engineering department provides education on all topics starting from software as a problem through dealing with software maintenance. MIS also has most of these topics. Since MIS department act as a bridge between business and information, it provides a chance to gain knowledge in various social sciences topics such as management, marketing, operations management and accounting.