Courses

Fulfillment of the doctoral program requires that the student complete between 136 and 162 course units. The exact course-unit requirement is dependent upon the student's prior preparation in information systems and business.

Listed below is a selection of courses offered in the information systems program.

Courses in Information Systems:

• 47-951-54IS Ph.D. Seminars
• 47-951 IS PhD seminar
• 47-952 IS PhD seminar
• 47-953 IS PhD seminar
• 47-954 IS PhD seminar
• 45-870 Management of Information Systems
• 45-871 Information Strategy, Systems and Economics
• 45-872 Information Resource Management
• 45-874 Programming for Web Business
• 45-875 The Web: Increasing Firm Value
• 45-878 Information Systems Development
• 45-879 Telecommunications for Business
• 45-889 Introduction to E-Commerce
• 46-941 Information Systems Modeling
• 45-821 Internet Marketing

Concentration Areas:

The Tepper School of Business has defined several concentration areas within information systems for students to develop, in consultation with their advisors. Students wishing to concentrate in information systems have the opportunity to examine problems of theoretical and practical importance to management and the research community.

Among the more popular concentrations in information systems are the modeling of individual and organizational responses to new information technologies, the economic evaluation of information systems, electronic commerce, software productivity and quality, and business value of Internet technologies.