B.S. Business Information Management
NOTE: Admission to the major will be available for freshmen in
fall 2008.
As the business environment becomes increasingly global and information-centric,
the need has increased for graduates who understand and can use technology that
gathers and provides information, who are able to distill and recognize patterns
in that information, and who can apply those analyses to achieve business objectives.
The undergraduate Business Information Management major administered by the
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences is a collaborative,
interdisciplinary degree program between the Bren School and The Paul Merage
School of Business. The program seeks to educate students to understand and
then apply the theories and concepts of a broad, integrated curriculum covering
computing, informatics, business fundamentals, and analytical decision-making.
The major prepares students for a wide variety of careers and life experiences.
Business Information Management majors can pursue careers in the for-profit
and not-for-profit sectors or can proceed to graduate school in several disciplines,
including information systems, computing, economics, business, and law.
The curriculum is presented across three general academic areas: Computing
(computer science, informatics, and software); Business Foundations (accounting,
finance, marketing, strategy, and operations); and Analytical Methods (mathematics,
statistics, economics, management science, and decision analysis). The fundamentals
of information and computer science, including the rudiments of software design
and construction with an emphasis on data management, provide the foundation
for understanding, describing, and evaluating the technology through which most
business information is gathered and presented. The business fundamentals, covering
all the functional areas in the Merage School, provide a background and context
in which information and its analysis will be applied.
Admissions
If the number of Business Information Management applicants exceeds the number
of positions available, applicants may be subject to screening beyond minimum
University of California admissions requirements.
Freshmen Applicants: See pages 36-40 of the 2008-09 UC Irvine General Catalogue.
Transfer Applicants: Junior-level applicants with the highest grades overall
(minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0) who satisfactorily complete the following requirements
will be given preference for admission:
- Completion of one year of college mathematics. Courses equivalent to ICS
6D/Mathematics 6D and Statistics 67/Mathematics 67 are preferred as this facilitates
scheduling after transfer to UCI. A semester of pre-calculus and a semester
of calculus are not sufficient to satisfy this requirement.
- Completion of one year of computer science courses. The course work must
contain at least one UC-transferable programming course involving the concepts
of object-oriented programming in such languages as C++, Java, Smalltalk,
or Eiffel, or functional programming in such languages as Scheme, Lisp, or
ML. Programming-only courses in Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, or C are not
acceptable. It is strongly recommended that students select UC-transferable
courses that do not focus strictly on learning a programming language but
instead focus on topics such as software design, software engineering, human-computer
interaction, programming language concepts, data structures, and algorithms,
if such courses are available.
Additional courses beyond the two courses required for admission are strongly
recommended. Transfer students must enter UCI with knowledge of Java since
it is used in many of the lower-division Informatics requirements and serves
as a foundation for upper-division programming-related courses.
Courses equivalent to Informatics 41, 42, 43 are strongly preferred, although
courses equivalent to ICS 21, 22, 52 are acceptable as alternatives.
- Completion of courses equivalent to Economics 20A-B and Management 30A,
30B.
- Completion of at least one year of college-level courses in English composition,
academic writing, research writing, or technical writing. Students should
have strong reading and writing skills and facility with quantitative reasoning
and critical, logical thinking. Courses in design would also be beneficial,
though not required.
Students who transfer to UCI in need of completing any part of this sequence
may find that it will take longer than two years to complete their degree.
More information is available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/ugrad
or the Bren School of ICS Student Affairs Office; telephone 949-824-5156;
e-mail: ucounsel@uci.edu.
Requirements for The Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Management
Please refer to the UC Irvine Catalogue: http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/ics/ics.2.htm#gen4
Students with questions regarding the Business Information Management
major should contact:
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Student Affairs Office
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3430
Telephone: 949-824-5156
ucounsel@uci.edu
Questions pertaining to UC Irvine admission should be directed to:
Admissions and Relations with Schools
204 Aldrich Hall
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-1075
Telephone: 949-824-6703
http://www.admissions.uci.edu/
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Telephone: 949-824-5011
http://www.uci.edu/
UCI General Catalogue
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