What do the iSchools do?
UMBC’s Department of Information Systems
UMBC is among the nation’s leading public research universities in awarding IT degrees. In addition to offering master’s and doctoral programs in information systems—including an entirely online master’s in IS, UMBC is also among a select few universities in the nation to offer an M.S. and Ph.D. in human-centered computing. Most research within the IS Department fits within five core areas: artificial intelligence/knowledge management, database/data mining, decision making support systems, human-centered computing, and software engineering. Our undergraduate offerings include a B.S. in information systems, a B.A. in business technology administration, and numerous certificate programs including decision making support, auditing for information systems, web development, network administration, and project management.
Indiana University School of Informatics
The Indiana University School of Informatics, the first of its kind in the country, was created as a place where innovative multidisciplinary programs could thrive within a school where information technology is applied to a range of other fields.
Department of Information Studies at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
The Department of Information Studies at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is internationally recognized for research in areas such as digital archives and libraries, multimedia databases, social implications of the Internet, organization of knowledge and information policy. The department educates future librarians, archivists, and information professionals, focusing on system design and end-users of information and their needs and studying the ways people search for and use information.
School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University
The mission of Singapore Management University (SMU) is to generate leading edge research with global impact as well as to produce broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders for the knowledge-based economy. School of Information Systems (SIS) has been created to extend SMU’s mission into the realm of business-focused information technology. The SIS education and research environment benefits from the strong partnership with Carnegie Mellon, as well as from the existing collaboration between the Wharton School and the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business.
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Faculty of Information - University of Toronto
The Faculty of Information - The iSchool@Toronto has gone through major transformations aimed at broadening the scope of the Faculty and adding more areas of specialization, while maintaining our strengths in libraries, archives and information systems.