Management Information Systems

The bridge degree: enough technology to build and evaluate systems, enough business to know which ones are worth building. ⚠⚠ 13 Florida public institutions award 735 credentials, 628 of them bachelor's. ⚠ It sits in the business school rather than the computing school, and that placement — not the syllabus — is what most distinguishes it from computer science.

The degrees this program covers

⚠⚠ WHAT MIS IS FOR, STATED PLAINLY. It trades peak technical depth for the ability to work between the technology and the people paying for it. The occupational data bears that out: computer systems analysts earn $105,850 against software developers' $135,980 — but computer and information systems MANAGERS earn $175,140 with 55,600 annual openings, and MIS is the degree most explicitly aimed at that transition. ⚠ If writing code is the point, computer science is the better degree; if deciding what gets built and why is the point, this is. ⚠⚠⚠ WATCH THE INTRODUCTORY COURSE NUMBER. Florida carries the same introduction to information systems management under TWO numbers — ISM3011 at 12 institutions and ISM4011 at 10 — and NO institution carries both. Both are upper division, so credit is not lost either way; the risk is that a transfer evaluator matching ISM3011 against ISM4011 sees a mismatch where there is none. ⚠ Send the syllabus, not the number. ⚠ Largest producers: USF 183, FAU 159, Florida State 148, and notably Seminole State College at 103 — a state college in the state's top four for this degree, which is unusual and worth knowing if you want a baccalaureate without a university. FGCU 71, FIU 34.

Careers this program leads to

Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end, and the sources behind it.

Database Administrator and Database Architect

⚠⚠⚠ One job title and two occupations, moving in opposite directions. Database ADMINISTRATORS earn a $104,620 median and are projected at 0% growth over 2025-35; database ARCHITECTS earn $139,500 and are projected at +9% — with FEWER people and MORE annual openings. ⚠⚠ And Florida has no undergraduate database degree at all: the dedicated code produces 62 credentials a year and 61 are one UWF master's. So the specialism is assembled from courses, under seven competing statewide numbers in three different colleges.

Systems Analyst and IT Manager

⚠⚠⚠ Computer and information systems managers earn $175,140 with 55,600 openings a year — and 26% of them report reaching it with SOME COLLEGE AND NO DEGREE, against 48% with a bachelor's and 14% with a master's. ⚠⚠ The rung below, computer systems analyst, is $105,850 across 521,100 jobs. This is the best-paid management occupation on the site and one of the most credential-loose.

Programs similar to this one

Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers. ⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.

Computer Science 16 Florida schools

⚠⚠⚠ The comparison that matters, and it is about placement rather than content. Computer science sits in the computing school and aims at building; MIS sits in the business school and aims at deciding what to build. ⚠ Software developers earn $135,980 against computer systems analysts' $105,850 — but the management rung above both pays $175,140, and MIS is the degree pointed at it.

Information Technology 39 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The nearer neighbour on the operational side, and much more widely taught — 39 Florida institutions against this programme's 13. ⚠ IT is the infrastructure and support route; MIS is the analysis and management one. If you want to run systems, look there; if you want to specify them, look here.

Cybersecurity 35 Florida schools

⚠ A real overlap rather than a neighbour: ISM4323 Information Systems Security is carried by 10 Florida institutions and ISM4324 Cybersecurity Analytics by 6, so security is taught inside the MIS curriculum as well as on its own. ⚠⚠ The governance and risk side of security is closer to MIS than to computer science.

Business Administration and Management 45 Florida schools

⚠ The parent field. An MIS degree is a business degree with a technology concentration, and the general business route with information systems coursework reaches many of the same jobs from more institutions.

Data Science and Analytics 13 Florida schools

⚠⚠ Where the analytical end of MIS has gone. ISM4545 Advanced Machine Learning for Business is already carried by 6 Florida institutions, inside the business prefix. ⚠ If the analytical work is the draw rather than the management, look at data science before committing to MIS.

Database and Data Management 5 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The third route, and the one students overlook. ISM3212 and ISM4212 are the same subject taught from the business side — data as something an organisation decides with, rather than a system to be optimised. ⚠ Ten Florida institutions carry those two numbers, and for analytics and reporting work it is the better preparation.

Florida public institutions offering this program

13 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023, at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Certificate (12 weeks-1 year), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate. A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

Broward College

Associate · Certificate (12 weeks-1 year)

College of Central Florida

Certificate (12 weeks-1 year)

Florida Atlantic University

Bachelor's · Certificate (12 weeks-1 year) · Master's

Florida Gulf Coast University

Bachelor's · Master's

Florida International University

Bachelor's · Master's · Postbaccalaureate certificate

Florida SouthWestern State College

Associate

Florida State University

Bachelor's · Master's

Pasco-Hernando State College

Associate · Certificate (12 weeks-1 year)

Pensacola State College

Certificate (12 weeks-1 year)

Seminole State College of Florida

Bachelor's

University of North Florida

Bachelor's

University of South Florida

Bachelor's

University of West Florida

Bachelor's

Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only — the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023 will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.

Updated 22 September 2026. ⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.