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MISM Concentrations
Our flexible curriculum allows you to choose among five concentrations geared to your level of interest: electronic commerce, business intelligence, information security management, service management and medical informatics. These concentrations 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 concentrations.
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 concentrations 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 the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon is a thought leader in the economics of information security, risk management, and privacy. See a sample curriculum.
Medical 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.
Service Management
Service Management educates you in the sourcing, provisioning, and management of services. This is an under-studied yet critical skillset in the U.S.’s ever growing service economy. Carnegie Mellon is the birthplace of the Capability Maturity Model that helped revolutionize IT service delivery. This concentration emphasizes global outsourcing, project and risk management, contracting and negotiations, performance and quality measurement and improvement. See a sample curriculum.