Computer environments range from desktop hardware and software to local area networks, enterprise systems, object-oriented programming and Internet-based technologies. Graduates typically go into positions such as systems analysts, applications programmers, web developers, network administrators, technical support and systems consultants.

Specific competencies and outcomes to be achieved by students are:

• Assess the need for, implement and evaluate information technologies at the enterprise and desktop levels.
• Demonstrate proficiency in business software applications and decision support technologies that improve performance at all organizational levels.
• Apply problem solving and analytical reasoning skills within the framework of information systems.
• Recognize the strategic importance of information systems as an integral part of organizational performance.
• Demonstrate knowledge of telecommunications, networking, and multi-user, wide-area platforms.
• Demonstrate the ability to model organizational and quantitative processes and functions as a foundation for designing information system solutions.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply project management tools and techniques that are essential to managing information system projects.
• Identify and design opportunities and strategies for IT-enabled organizational improvement and innovation.
• Demonstrate mastery of functional skills used in designing, building and  managing databases that support information systems in an organization.