BS Information
Systems
Freshman and Sophomore Year
Effective Fall 2015
Prerequisite Courses - All courses must be
Strongly
encouraged
Must
be taken
before IS to
201
take before applying.
completed before the application deadline.
ACC 200 (FWSp)
3.0
Principles of Accounting
2/18/2015
Undergraduate Programs Office
460 TNRB, Provo, UT 84602
Phone (801)422-4285
msm_advisement@byu.edu
msm.byu.edu/
BUS M 241 (FWSpSu)
IS 110 (FWSp)
3.0
Marketing Management
1.0
Spreadsheets and
Business Analysis
Prereq for
IS 201
Complete
before
IS 201
GE: Quantitative Reasoning
FIN 201 (FWSp)
3.0
Principles of Finance
IS 201* (FWSpSu)
Intro. to Management
Information Systems
3.0
Required grade: B or better
Prereq: IS 110
IS 303* (WSp)
3.0
Intro. to Computer Programming
(JAVA) (or CS 142)
Required grade: B or better
End of Sophomore Year
Apply
msm.byu.edu/apply
Fall Admit Application Deadline:
Last business day of June at 4:30pm MT
Application Criteria
The admissions committee considers the following ...
• Prerequisite GPA • Minimum 3.0 GPA in the prerequisite courses
• Prerequisite courses must be COMPLETED BEFORE the application deadline
• Transferred prerequisite courses are discounted .3 for this calculation (e.g. A to A-)
• Repeated prerequisites are discounted .3 (No prereq can be repeated more than once)
• Overall GPA - Including transfer credit
• BYU GPA - Transfer students must complete one semester at BYU before applying
• Essay - Write a 500-word essay as part of your application
This is a limited enrollment program. Entry is competitive. Not every student meeting the
minimum criteria is guaranteed acceptance into the undergraduate program.
*Courses cannot be transferred
BS Information Systems
Requirements
Sophomore Year
Required Courses- Take before or after admittance into program.
(9.0 credit hours)
Recommended to complete before Management Core or MISM.
ECON 110 (FWSpSu) 3.0
Economic Problems and
Principles
MCOM 320* (FWSpSu) 3.0
GE: Social Science
GE: Advanced Writing
STAT 121
Communication in
Organizational
Settings
(FWSpSu)
Principles of Statistics
Not required for major
Strongly recommended
3.0
MATH 118 3.0
Finite Mathematics
ACC 241 3.0
Business Law
GE: Quantitative or
Languages of Learning
First Year in Program
Junior Core - Must be taken during first year in program.
Fall Semester Envelope*
IS 401 (F)
Systems Analysis
3.0
IS 402 (F)
3.0
Database Systems
(24.0 credit hours)
IS 403 (F)
3.0
Principles of Business
Programming
IS 414 (F)
3.0
Business Processes
and Controls
IS 411 (W)
3.0
Systems Design
and Implementation
IS 413 (W)
3.0
Enterprise Application
Development
Winter Semester Envelope*
IS 404 (W)
3.0
Data Communications
•
IS 405 (W)
3.0
Information Systems
Project Management
Students interested in the MISM program apply after completing the IS Junior Core
• Year
MISM students do not take the Management Core
Senior
Integrated Core - Complete after Junior Core. No substitutions allowed.
SeniorManagement
Year
BusM 361 (FW)
3.0
BusM 390 (FW)
3.0
OrgB 321 (FW)
3.0
BusM 387 (FW)
Intro. to Supply Core* Ethics
for
Economics of
Management
- Complete
after Junior Organizational
Core. No substitutions allowed.
Chain and
Operations
BUS
M 390 (FW)
Ethics for
Management
3.0
Senior Capstone
Management
ORG B 321 (FW)
Organizational
Effectiveness
3.0
Effectiveness
Strategy
BUS M 498 (FWSp) 3.0
Strategic Management
3.0
(12.0 credit hours)
BUS M 361 (FW)
3.0
Operations Management
(12.0 credit hours)
(3.0 credit hours)
IS 415* (F)
3.0
Information Systems
Capstone Project
Prereq: Junior Core
*Courses cannot be transferred
GPA Requirement for graduation: Major GPA 2.25 Overall GPA 2.00
Total Credit Hours 64.0