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Message from the Director
Hugh Watson
MIS Advisory Board Director
Hugh Watson

For over 20 years, the MIS Advisory Board has been the primary point of contact between industry and the Department of MIS. It helps ensure that the MIS curriculum meets the needs of employers, supports cutting-edge research, provides speakers for classes, funds scholarships for outstanding MIS students, and more. It is an invaluable resource for the MIS program at the University of Georgia.

Board members vary considerably, which gives us a broad perspective. For example, they include CIOs, partners in consulting firms, recent graduates, and current students. Companies that heavily recruit UGA MIS students often are corporate members. People who have a strong affinity with Georgia's MIS program hold individual memberships.

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What the Board Does

     Meetings

  • Discuss and develop the MIS curriculum
  • Present student projects
  • Refine expectations for student transition from school to the work place

     Interact with Students

  • Lecture to MIS classes
  • Host company tours for MIS Students
  • Meet MIS students at the Spring Awards Banquet and the Fall Recruitment Dinner
  • Grant company sponsored scholarships to outstanding MIS students
  • Present at the MIS student organization (SMIS) meetings

     Promote the MIS field

  • Learn about current MIS thinking and research
  • Hear lectures by leading MIS practitioners and academics
  • Collaborate on UGA MIS faculty and PhD research
Benefits of Board Membership

     Community

  • Interact with the MIS students and faculty
  • Meet and network with other senior-level information systems managers and professionals
  • Collaborate to influence the Direction of MIS education

     Recognition

  • Formal recognition in the Terry College of Business and the Department of MIS
  • Company name recognition by the MIS student body
MIS Rankings & News

     Faculty and Department:

  • The MIS faculty is ranked second in the country based on faculty scholarly productivity by Academic Analytics (2008).
  • Three faculty members have been ranked among the top 25 most productive researchers in MIS. (Bostrom, H. Watson, R. Watson).
  • The MIS Department was ranked among the top ten programs in the world by the Financial Times and sixth in the US in research productivity by an Academy of Management article. It was one of only four departments included in the top ten in both rankings.

     Undergrad Program:

  • The MIS Department was ranked 11th in a survey of the best undergraduate business programs for information systems by U.S. News & World Report (2007).
  • Terry's management information systems (MIS) and accounting programs were also ranked among the nation's top specialty programs in business by U.S. News & World Report. The MIS department was ranked 16th in its category (2006).
  • Our undergraduate MIS program has been ranked in the top 10 in U.S. by ComputerWorld.

     Graduate Program:

  • Our MBA program is ranked in the top 50 by BusinessWeek.
  • Our MBA program is ranked in the top 25 Techno-MBA programs by BusinessWeek.