In the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, we offer three majors: Information and Cybersecurity Management, Business Analytics, and the Analytics Co-Major. In a world of growing dependence on technological and analytic needs, exposure to these fields is becoming increasingly beneficial to young professionals. Our students receive extensive skill sets and experience in the information systems, cybersecurity management and business analytics fields, making them more competitive in the job market. Courses in information systems, cybersecurity and analytics offer students hands-on technical and managerial IT skills and exposure to emerging topics like cyber risk management, big data, data mining, and forecasting trends.

Students Entering Fall 2020 or later

Business Analytics

Business Analytics focuses on the use of data to guide evidence-based decision-making. This field has emerged during a time when massively large data sets are being collected throughout society.  Analytics combines numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics. This major provides a framework for thinking about the collection and use of "big data" and develops skills for handling structured and unstructured data and for developing models to predict behavior in data-rich business environments.

View the prerequisites and courses necessary to complete the Business Analytics Major in this flowchart. For requirements and complete course descriptions, please check out the Miami bulletin.

Information and Cybersecurity Management

The Information and Cybersecurity Management Major provides managerial perspective and technical skills to create, control, protect, and leverage information and data resources of an organization.  The major contains two tracks. One is an Information Systems track focusing on the systems, processes and technologies organizations use to manage the information assets of the organizations.  The Cybersecurity Management track is a managerial focus on cybersecurity and risk management that organizations seek in all of their business units.  Both tracks are a solid foundation of technical understanding delivered from a managerial perspective to enable students to contribute quickly to problem solving in Information and Cybersecurity Management in organizational settings.

For requirements for each track and complete course descriptions, please check out the Miami bulletin.   View the prerequisites and courses necessary to complete a major in Information and Cyber Security Management in this flowchart.

Information Management Track

This track takes a more traditional Information Systems focus on foundational theory and practice in content areas such as business process management, database, data communications, security, systems analysis, and project management. The track also addresses contemporary topics including cloud computing, mobile commerce, enterprise systems, business intelligence, data mining, and big data management. It emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving business problems.

Cybersecurity Management Track

This track focuses on Cybersecurity from a managerial perspective.  It includes foundational knowledge and practice in content areas such as Cyber-attack methods, incident response, protection and detection, cyber risk management, security policies, regulation and compliance, networking, as well as key security technologies such as blockchain and encryption.   It overviews relevant technology and emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving security focused business problems.

Students Entering Fall 2020

Information Systems

Information Systems focuses on foundational theory and practice in content areas such as business process management, database, data communications, security, systems analysis, and project management. The track also addresses contemporary topics including cloud computing, mobile commerce, enterprise systems, business intelligence, data mining, and big data management. It emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving business problems.

View the prerequisites and courses necessary to complete a major in Information Systems in this flowchart . For requirements and complete course descriptions, please check out the Miami bulletin.

Students Entering Prior to Fall 2020

Information Systems and Analytics

The fields of Business Analytics (BA) and Information Systems (IS) have become increasingly intertwined, with intersections in the domains of data skills, programming to manipulate and massage data, and systems development for both collection of data and dissemination of information. In light of this trend, we now offer a major that is a combination of our previous information systems major and Analytics Co-major. The Information Systems and Analytics Major provides managerial and technical skills to create, control, and leverage information and data resources of an organization. The major offers two tracks.

The Information Systems Track focuses on foundational theory and practice in content areas such as business process management, database, data communications, security, systems analysis & development, and project management. The track also addresses contemporary topics including cloud computing, mobile commerce, enterprise systems, business intelligence, data mining, and big data management. It emphasizes the application of technology and information management skills to solving business problems.

The Business Analytics Track focuses on the use of data to guide evidence-based decision-making. Analytics combines numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics. This track provides a framework for thinking about the collection and use of "big data" and develops skills for handling structured and unstructured data and for developing models to predict behavior in data-rich environments.

View the prerequisites and courses necessary to complete the Information Systems and Analytics Major in this flowchart. For requirements and complete course descriptions, please check out the Miami bulletin.

For Students from outside the FSB

Analytics Co-Major

Analytics and the ability to effectively leverage large amounts of information are simply becoming pervasive across many disciplines. It is truly inter-disciplinary in nature. The analytical techniques and abilities are the common base to which the various disciplines provide context specific data, problems, opportunities and approaches. To meet this need the inter-divisional Analytics co-major provides students with the skills to deal with big data and will complement the pursuit of a major in any division. The core of the co-major provides some necessary common ground and the tracks will provide the contexts. The business analytics track provides an applied business oriented context.

View the prerequisites and courses necessary to complete the Analytics Co-Major in this flowchart. For requirements and complete course descriptions, please check out the Miami bulletin.