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  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

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    • Time: 57 hours
    • CEUs: 5.7
    • Free Certificate
    Management Information Systems (MIS) is a formal discipline within business education that bridges the gap between computer science and well-known business disciplines such as finance, marketing, and management. In spite of this, most students will only take one or two MIS courses as part of their undergraduate program. The term Management Information Systems has several definitions that might depend on where you look or who you ask. Common among these many definitions is that MIS represents a collection of technologies, people, and processes that manage the information and communication resources of an organization. Even if you do not realize it, you use MIS every day. If you use email, you are using MIS since email is an information system--though you, the user, only see one end of it. If you log into a computer every morning and access or edit data on corporate servers, you are using information systems.