MIS/Management

<p>Alright, I am currently an MIS major, I like it and am pretty good at it...but am thinking about picking up a Management major as well....as further down the road I know that I don't want to be doing the "tech" side of things and would love to be either like a Product manager or even like a sales director or something for a tech firm. My Advisor pretty much says a management degree is worthless when I'm already doing MIS because of the ridiculously high placement rates and stuff.....but I just don't want to be pigeonholed into "just coding" the rest of my life....any thoughts? Is a double major with management worth it?</p>

<p>That’s the whole point of doing an MIS degree instead of a Comp Sci degree, so that you have the option to become an analyst/etc. instead of doing the pure software engineering that most Comp Sci grads do. In fact, I would argue that you should be going for a less technical position as an MIS grad. I don’t think a Management concentration will do much to help you except maybe help you develop better leadership/people skills which you usually end up learning on the job having to deal with clients anyway.</p>

<p>If you find another major that interests you enough to double major then definitely go for it, as it should add a lot to your degree, but I don’t think Management is the right choice.</p>

<p>I don’t know about what the best combo would be but isn’t MIS a “management” degree? Management Information Systems?</p>

<p>Would seem redundant to get another management degree if that is the case. You should couple it with a degree that would open more doors, not the same ones that MIS already opens.</p>