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Management Information Systems are crucial to modern businesses and organizations. They enable connections with remote suppliers, vendors, distributors, employees, customers, and corporate partners that enhance the efficiency of any operation, leading to increased profitability. They also represent a growing sector, as software and hardware automation takes over jobs once performed manually.
Cedar Crest’s online graduate certificate in MIS allows learners from multiple disciplines — from health care to human resources to distribution — to understand the strategic importance of information, which can lead to new potential opportunities, products and partnerships.
The 12-credit online Management Information Systems graduate certificate will enable students to assess, leverage and manage technology innovations to increase organizational efficiency and to understand how to compete effectively in a global information economy. The program is designed for the busy working professional who is looking to change careers or move up in their current field and can be completed in one to two years.
The goal of the certificate program is to provide students with the ability to:
- Create strategies for leveraging management information systems to create competitive advantage, operational efficiency and enhanced responsiveness to market change.
- Assess core information technologies and alternatives to accomplish the tasks of collecting, processing and outputting data.
- Leverage and assess project management techniques that are applicable to all business situations, as well as those particular to management information systems.
- Develop strategies for determining appropriate data architecture and management techniques for enterprise data.
- Develop strategies for negotiating disruptive innovation to organizations and markets, and for leveraging business automation such as intelligent agents.
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Cooperative Agreements
Cedar Crest College collaborates with several academic institutions to provide our students with innovative pathways that help them succeed in their chosen fields.
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Accreditation
The Cedar Crest College business program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
ACBSP Current Graduation Data
ACBSP Historical Graduation Data
Nov. 2019 Report
Faculty & Staff
Who’s teaching you is as important as the curriculum you choose.
Let’s put a face to some of the names you’ll be seeing on the course listings!
Michael Zalot
Chair of Business, Director of the Modular Master of Science program, and Associate Professor
Scott V. Bartkus
Director of the MBA Program, Assistant Professor
Nina Patel
Assistant Professor of BusinessNina Patel
- Gujarati
Beverly Magda
Founding Director of the Elaine and John Harmon Center
Brigitte Nassar
Administrative AssistantBrigitte Nassar
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