An Analysis of IS Programs Accredited by ABET

Authors

Ronald J. MacKinnon, Georgia Southern University
Hyo-Joo Han, Georgia Southern University

Abstract

As of April 2008 there were 30 Information Systems (IS) programs at 23 universities accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). This paper compares these ABET accredited IS programs to a sample of 20 IS programs randomly chosen from 251 IS programs in the United States listed by ISWorld. The data was collected by visiting the web pages of the selected IS programs. This paper includes a study of the required IS courses, elective IS courses, required programming courses, required business courses, the title of the IS program (IS/MIS/CIS), the department and college where the IS program was located and the year of ABET accreditation. It is interesting to notice that only two of the ABET accredited IS degrees are BBA degrees. This study points out several significant differences between the ABET accredited IS programs and the typical BBA IS programs at the sample universities.

Recommended Citation

MacKinnon, Ronald J. and Han, Hyo-Joo (2008) "An Analysis of IS Programs Accredited by ABET," Communications of the IIMA: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58729/1941-6687.1087
Available at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/ciima/vol8/iss1/5