Department of Decision and Information Sciences

Effective Fall 2008, all DISC courses will have new rubrics, although the course numbers will remain the same. The new rubrics are:

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 Operations Management.

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How We Rank

The MIS department ranked #1 in research productivity among IS departments in the Gulf Coast, according to a 2002 study by Alan R. Dennis published in the Academy of Management Journal. In addition, the MIS department 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.

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