H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management

The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management is consistently ranked among the top ten public policy and public affairs schools in the nation and is ranked first nationally in information systems and technology. The research and teaching interests of the information systems faculty at the Heinz School include electronic commerce, security and confidentiality, enterprise modeling, information retrieval and data mining, globalization of the software industry, applications of geographic information systems, Bayesian probabilistic networks, and health information systems. For the Masters in Science in Computational Finance Program, the Heinz School provides a rich understanding of the underlying technology supporting electronic commerce activities in the financial sector.  The object oriented programming sequence teaches the fundamentals of modern programming practice while e-commerce Technology I and II provide an in-depth understanding of the structure of the internet and thetechnical tools which support electronic commerce.  The Security course addresses the critical issues of developing and maintaining systems which are defensible against external intrusions as well as flexible to changing internal demands. Students may take additional electives in a wide variety of areas including database management, networks and telecommunications management, information retrieval, enterprise resource planning and decision support systems.