<p>[Undergraduate</a> Program - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/undergrad_program.cfm]Undergraduate”>http://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/undergrad_program.cfm)
That basically outlines the different tracks one can take with Operations Management and Information Systems. Management Science and Information Systems are different things.</p>
<p>There is overlap between CS and MIS jobs but the students have different aspirations/interests. For example, MIS students will often aspire to become IT consultants while CS students will often aspire to work do hardcore programming at a company like Sun Microsystems. MIS grads will tend to be more extroverted and better at dealing with others while CS students tend to be better at working on complex technical issues by themselves. </p>
<p>A CS grad would likely want to stab himself in the eye if he had to be in meetings all day, where as an MIS major would likely want to stab himself in the eye if he had to stare at lines of code all day. Obviously, these are generalizations.</p>
<p>^Thats for the average grads, but what about a CS major who is more social and wants to jump into the business side? Would he have an advantage over MIS majors because of a more rigorous undergrad and the more technical background? Would they be considered the same?</p>
<p>^ I will say that generally CS grads will have more opportunities, but at the same time can be pigeon holed into technical jobs because they are so valuable in those positions. That could depend on the company though. I’d assume that it would be easier to move to the business side of things at an engineering firm where there are many highly technical CS grads working.</p>