The Eller College MIS Department is proud of its successes and accomplishments including: 

• The only MIS program to generate over $80M in grants to fund research in
  • Collaborative systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data management
  • Decision making behavior
  • IT management/strategies
    
• Producing 
  • Over 150 doctoral students
  • Over 1,200 Graduate MIS students
  • Over 3,500 Undergraduate MIS majors
    
• Being a pioneer in establishing the first MIS curriculum in collaboration with Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and other schools.

Rankings

The MIS Department at the University of Arizona has been producing excellent students since its inception in 1974. U.S. News & World Report has recognized this accomplishment by ranking the UA-MIS program among the top five MIS programs in the country for 20 consecutive years, a record only matched by MIT and Carnegie-Mellon. In addition, Financial Times recently ranked our MIS Department number 9 globally in the first year of its IT (information technology) specialty category.

• Ranked #1 in Research Productivity by Decision Line Survey
• Ranked #1 in Faculty's Scholarly Productivity by The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Ranked #9 globally in IT (information technology) specialty category by Financial Times
• Ranked in the Computer World's Top 25 Techno-MBA Programs
• Eller College named to Business 2.0's list of the nation's top-20 tech-savvy B-Schools

Research and Technology Transfer

The Eller College MIS Department generates more research dollars annually than any other management school in the country. The cumulative amount of research funding for the MIS Department is in excess of $80 million. A substantial portion of the research funding comes through the Center for the Management of Information, the Artificial Intelligence Group, the Advanced Database Group and the Hoffman E-Commerce Laboratory. Large sources have included the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and IBM. This work has led to commercial products in the areas of group systems and information sharing for law enforcement.

In addition, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s recent faculty scholarly productivity index, the MIS Department at Eller College of Management ranks #1 for 2007. (View the rankings here).

The MIS Department research excellence has been in several areas, including:

• Focused support in the areas of group systems in support of collaborative decision-making,
• Text mining in support of applications such as digital libraries,
• Artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems in support of security/police/health applications and web-monitoring applications,
• Semantic data management in support of combining heterogeneous data bases,
• Process flow automation/web services,
• Supply chain management, and
• IT economics and strategy

For a complete listing of our faculty awards and accomplishments, please visit our Department and Faculty Accomplishments page.