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Undergraduate programs

Business Analytics

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Business Analytics (BA) involves the collecting, storing, and analyzing of data to shape and make business decisions.

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Information Systems

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Businesses worldwide depend heavily on advanced information and communication technologies for managing data, information and delivering efficient business operations. IS professionals are involved in designing, developing, deploying and managing these information systems that ultimately solve problems for people.

Courses in information systems include a variety of in-demand topics and skill development including information technology, data analytics, business core knowledge, software applications, project management and a systems perspective.

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Graduate program

Information Technology Management

Graduate degree Graduate certificate Gain the knowledge to excel in IT leadership roles with a three-course certificate or a full master’s degree.

Areas of study

Enterprise Infrastructure

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IT Leadership

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IT Operations

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Attention!

Information Systems and Business Analytics Majors!

All Information Systems and Business Analytics Majors will have access to the IS Student Lounge/Resource Center (Wing 31) once again next Fall during building hours using their student ID.

This room is particularly useful for group projects!

Featured courses

  • Information Systems for Business Management
    IS 220 | 3 credits
    This course provides the basic level of management information systems literacy. The course introduces the building blocks of information systems, the various organizational aspects of utilizing information systems, and the role of information systems in the digital economy. Students gain familiarity with spreadsheet and database applications that provide useful information to business functional areas. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Offered Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.
  • Data Management for Business Problem Solving and Decision Making
    IS 300 | 3 credits
    This course provides an understanding of data management used to help solve business problems and make sound business decisions. In addition to the conceptual and academic foundations of data management, the course also explores the application of software tools to manage, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data. Prerequisite: IS 220 or healthcare analytics management minor. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Information Systems in Networked Environments: Technical Foundations and Applications
    IS 310 | 3 credits
    This course provides fundamentals of data communications and business networking requirements, and examines the linkage of information technology strategies and technological solutions for enabling effective business processes within and between organizations in emerging environments. Major topics include fundamentals of data communications and business networking, applications to data communications, basic technologies of the internet and the web, commercial use of internet technologies, e-business applications, and cases in online industries. Prerequisite: IS 220. Offered Spring.
  • Enterprise Systems for Decision Making and Data Analytics
    IS 320 | 3 credits
    This course provides an introduction to enterprise systems and their impact on organizations. An enterprise system application is utilized to illustrate the concepts, fundamentals and integration of enterprise-wide applications and processes. Enterprise system data analytics applications are applied to analyze business results and support business decision making. Prerequisite: IS 220. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Business Choices and Telecommunications Decision
    IS 330 | 3 credits
    This course examines the business and organizational role of telecommunications. The course focuses on using telecommunications to support and achieve business strategies and does not address the theoretical foundations of telecommunications. Course topics include how businesses are being reshaped by advances in telecommunications; how businesses plan, deploy and manage telecommunications resources; and how businesses are utilizing and administrating local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) technology to achieve business objectives. Prerequisite: IS 310. Offered Occasionally.
  • Information Systems Security and Data Assurance Management
    IS 340 | 3 credits
    This course provides an overview of information systems security management and data assurance principles. Coverage includes privacy concerns and safeguards, ethical issues surrounding data and information, information risk analysis, information system vulnerabilities, security threats and countermeasures. Prerequisite: IS 220. Offered Fall.
  • Management of Business Analytics
    IS 360 | 3 credits
    The course addresses the remarkable impact that analytics is having on business. This course provides students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations. The course examines issues that both information systems managers and non-information systems managers face in managing and performing business data analytics within an organization. Students apply business analytics approaches to support business decision making and problem-solving efforts and learn how to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for business decisions. The course covers managerial statistical tools in descriptive analytics and predictive analytics. Prerequisite: IS 220; junior standing. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Management Information Systems: Analysis and Design
    IS 401 | 3 credits
    This course covers the development process for computer-based management information systems. This course emphasizes information analysis and the logical design of management information systems. Prerequisite: IS 300. Offered Fall.
  • Management Information Systems: Project Management and Implementation
    IS 411 | 3 credits
    This course emphasizes the use of project management techniques to support an information system implementation. In-depth exposure to key tools, techniques, practices, and knowledge areas of project management are applied to system implementation. Prerequisite: grade of "C" or better in ACC 221, ACC 222, BLAW 205, ECO 110, ECO 120, ENG 110 or ENG 112, MTH 160 or MTH 175 or MTH 207, and STAT 145 or STAT 245; 54 credits earned. Offered Spring.
  • Introduction to Econometrics
    ECO 307 | 3 credits
    This course is an introduction to regression analysis and its application to economic and business research. Topics include using secondary data sources, simple and multiple regression, and interpretation and communication of results. The course develops various empirical techniques and culminates with a final research paper. Prerequisite: STAT 145 or STAT 245; ENG 110 or ENG 112. Offered Fall, Spring.
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With IT, you can’t learn everything. When you’re in a technical field, you can’t possibly know it all because there are niches, like cybersecurity or data. That’s why I like it. Because I can try. It’s that excitement, where you can’t get bored...

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Jackson Radenz

I’ve gained confidence in myself and my ability to solve problems on my own and overcome shortfalls too, which I’ll need in the job market.

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Ben Pruzek

The IS major at UWL has allowed me to develop valuable skills highly sought after by employers, thanks to the supportive instructors who consistently create a positive learning environment. With opportunities outside the classroom like company tours, professional development, and student organization involvement, I highly recommend this program.