BA/BS in Management Information Systems

Management Information Systems combines business studies with information technology at Sohar University. The programme is taught in English on a full-time basis, with a two-year diploma route and a four-year bachelor's degree of 131 credit hours. Students learn to design and run cost-effective information systems that help organisations plan and direct their daily operations. The course covers programming and software development, e-business applications, the analysis of systems, designing databases, networking and operating systems, and data mining alongside the internet of things. These skills allow graduates to translate employers' information needs into working business applications. Typical employers include software houses, systems design companies, banks, support providers, telecommunications firms and smaller businesses, where graduates work alongside programmers, engineers, scientists and analysts from other disciplines.