This major prepares students who plan to design, create, and administer large information bases used by organizations.

Enterprises have an ever-growing investment in the exploding quantity of information, especially in web related data, that requires increasingly sophisticated approaches for efficient access and productive use. Students gain the talents and skills to be successful in today’s organizations following current industry practices: planning, designing, implementing and administering data information and knowledge bases that can be effectively mined; assessing the information and data requirements of an organization and implementing these requirements as an information system; and functioning as an effective member of an information services division in an organization.

These are just a few of the reasons our program is distinctive:

• A commitment to the Jesuit traditions of scholarship, lifelong learning, and service.

• Classes are taught by experienced faculty.

• Our campus is a short ride from downtown Chicago. We offer classes at Water Tower Campus and Lake Shore Campus.

• Excellent laboratory facilities, including Windows and Linux development labs, and a wireless interaction area.

• Our schedules can work around your life.

• We offer a wide base of study that will help prepare you for a long, fulfilling career in computer science.

• Our professors work in the business world, bringing real-world problems and solutions to the classroom.

• We use a systematic methodology that teaches you how to think, not what to think. This will prepare you for the challenging, ever-changing world of computer science.

• Computer science continues to be a lucrative field. This positive outlook is expected to continue(e.g., see this related digest)