<p>I want to major in information systwms. Is there a separate school for information systems or does it fall under h&ss?</p>
<p>Here you go:</p>
<p><a href=“Program Overview - Information Systems - Carnegie Mellon University”>http://www.cmu.edu/information-systems/</a></p>
<p>It’s under H&SS (I graduated in 2008 with an IS degree)</p>
<p>@coringo Hi, I got into the IS program and I wanted to ask if the IS at carnegie mellon is more computer based or business based? I’m really hoping it’s computer based. I’m planning to minor in computer science in addition. Thnx</p>
<p>In my timeframe (it could certainly have changed, but I don’t expect that it did) the program was really business based, looking at project management, generating metrics and studies/forms, the psychology of product design, organizational behavior and things like that. The programming only came into play in 1-2 minor classes and the junior and senior capstones.</p>
<p>That being said, they are teaching you how programming is managed within the business world - you don’t just code something and then try it out (unless you are at a startup), you code to solve a specific problem that someone identified and studied and then you document the expected work-vs-the actual work and test the crap out of it. Throw interface design, user acceptance testing, project cost/benefit analysis, and security reviews in too.</p>
<p>You can certainly do a double major in CS (though the gen-eds don’t really line up) or a minor and it would be of great value to understand both sides. IS (as CMU does it) trains you to be a technical designer, technical manager or a project manager rather than a coder.</p>
<p>Those jobs are pretty available and make similar $ to the straight CS ones in many cases.</p>