MISM BIDA Admission Requirements

The Admissions Process

With a Carnegie Mellon MISM degree, you'll see an immediate return on your investment. Better positions, better quality firms, better salaries, and better potential for advancement are the most often cited benefits from previous graduates. Top consulting, financial services, and technology firms most frequently hire our MISM graduates. The goal of the program is to position you for a career as a leader in IT management. We have a robust network of corporate recruiters to provide ample opportunity for achieving your career goals.

MISM BIDA Admission Requirements

Applicants are expected to have undergone at least one college level computer-programming course. We recommend an object-oriented programming course, specifically Java. In addition, students are also required to exempt either Database or Statistics to be able to complete this concentration. Students accepted into this concentration are required to complete the BIDA Core courses in addition to the MISM Core courses, please refere to this page for a list of Core level course for this concentration.

What are we looking for?

Students who have success in this program have demonstrated an ability to synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative concepts. Students tend to have a non-liberal arts undergraduate background that can vary from engineering, to IS, to physics.

For more information on our student body, including demographics and test scores, view the class profile.

Before applying, please read our Application Requirements.