Department of Decision & Information Sciences
Effective Fall 2008, all DISC courses will have new rubrics, although the course numbers will remain the same. The new rubrics are:
- MIS - Management Information Systems
- SCM - Operations Management, Supply Chain Management
- STAT - Statistics
Example: DISC 4361 is now SCM 4361
Today, more and more information is needed to manage organizations, large and small. From the entrepreneur to the large multinational corporation, managers are looking for the right information in the right format provided at just the right time to make decisions.
The Department of Decision and Information Sciences in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston offers two areas of concentration to support just this type of decision making: Management Information Systems, and Supply Chain Management.
How We Rank
The MIS program ranked #1 in research productivity among information systems programs in the Gulf Coast, according to a 2002 study by Alan R. Dennis published in the Academy of Management Journal.
The faculty in the MIS is ranked in the top 30 internationally in terms of research productivity, with Dennis Adams, Randy Cooper, and Blake Ives each ranked in the top 40 in terms of research impact, according to a 2007 study by Karuga, et al. published in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
In addition, Wynne Chin is one of the top five human computer interaction researchers and one of the top 10 researchers in technology acceptance, according to the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and the Communications of the Association for Information Systems.