MISM Specializations

Our flexible curriculum allows you to choose among five specializations geared to your level of interest: electronic commerce, business intelligence, information security management, IT strategy & management, and healthcare informatics. These specializations enable you to develop an enhanced level of expertise and domain knowledge. You can also choose to mix courses to build a broader foundation of skills across all the specializations.

Admitted students do not need to declare their interest in a concentration. You have full flexibility to choose electives within a concentration or to totally ignore the specializations when selecting classes.

Here's what you can learn from each:

Electronic Commerce

Successful electronic commerce involves blending technological, marketing and management practices in ways that are fundamentally new. E-Commerce explores best practices in linking firms to customers and suppliers in business-to-business and business-to-consumer models. See a sample curriculum.

Business Intelligence

Large organizations face significant challenges maximizing their intertwined information repositories. The Business Intelligence concentration confronts technical and managerial issues associated with the acquisition, representation, retrieval, and analysis of extremely large and fuzzy data sources. See a sample curriculum.

Information Security Management

This concentration integrates technical, managerial and policy issues in information security and assurance. You'll learn from renowned experts in information security from the Software Engineering Institute's CERT© Coordination Center and Heinz College. Carnegie Mellon is a thought leader in the economics of information security, risk management, and privacy. See a sample curriculum.

IT Strategy & Management

The IT Strategy & Management specialization is geared for students with CIO aspirations. Students take a combination of leadership, process, and IT management classes to prepare them to lead organization in today's complex, digital world. The focus of this concentration is on understanding and leveraging the connectivity across people, processes, and technology. See a sample curriculum.

Healthcare Informatics

Hospitals, insurers and governments are finally recognizing the importance of strong IT practices in the effective treatment and delivery of healthcare. Effective knowledge retention, knowledge sharing, and point-to-point IT solutions are needed to control costs and improve the quality of care through successful medical informatics practices. See a sample curriculum.