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.
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Management Information Systems |
Computer Engineering |
Software Engineering |
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Focus |
Organization |
Product |
Software |
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Goal |
More efficient or effective work |
Developed Engineering Product |
Reliable Computer Programmes |
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Basic Skill |
Problem solving |
Engineering |
Reasoning/procedure |
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Basic Duty |
Determining work requiremnts for information systems |
Determining information processing requirements for device |
Present information systems to fulfill defined requirements |
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Theoretical and Practical |
Balanced |
Balanced |
Practical |
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General Job Title |
Analyst/Designer |
Architect and Developer |
Developer |
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Typical Starting Job Ttile |
Operating Systems Analyst |
Engineer |
Application Programmer |
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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.