Information Systems
DO YOU LIKE PROBLEM SOLVING AND WORKING WITH COMPUTERS?
Today's information age has an ever-increasing need for information systems and the graduates who can understand and use them.
A degree in Information Systems from City will help you develop your career as an information systems professional.
With our Information Systems degree you will gain:
- The technical knowledge to use and apply computer technologies in industry.
- The skills to design and manage innovative information systems.
- Expertise in high demand areas of the computing industry, such as electronic commerce and information security.
While at City, you will learn to construct software and design information systems to create information-rich working environments. You will develop commercially valuable skills in our computing laboratories and work with colleagues on collaborative software projects. For your final year project, you can work with our internationally renowned research centres.
Topics covered include systems for supporting decision making, information retrieval and information management. Techniques for dealing with free-form information, such as text, are covered and methods for securing information systems from unathorised access are studied in depth.
As an Information Systems graduate, you can expect to find employment designing, building and managing information systems. Your degree prepares you for a career that can encompass a technical role, leading teams on the largest software projects, or a managerial role with responsibility for computerised information services.
This degree is suitable for you if:
- You want a creative role in developing future innovative IT applications.
- You have the determination to see technical projects through to the end.
- You want a head start in your career as an information systems professional.
This degree builds on City University's research strengths in computer science and information management, and its long experience in teaching information systems at master's degree level. It is available as a three-year degree, or four years with industrial experience.
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