Why Business Schools Aren't Turning Out Good CIO Candidates
Posted by Sean Rehder (Permalink) | 0 Comments | | Thursday, August 17, 2006


"Fewer and fewer MBA candidates are signing up for MIS programs, a troubling trend for America's long-term competitiveness.

Once a month or so, a small group of my friends and colleagues from the past 20 years get together for a one-hour conference call to discuss topics of mutual interest. Although we all met as management and technology consultants, we have diverse backgrounds and equally diverse current jobs. Our calls are wide-ranging and generally intriguing. Last week, one of us (who is now involved in postgraduate research administration) asked us to comment on the falling number of students signing up for his business school's "MIS" major. It seems that graduate business students just don't want to know about the internals of databases and programming languages or the mechanics of data center operations. Note that this isn't the Computer Science department in the School of Engineering that's making the complaint: their classes are full and doing fine. This is the "MIS Management" group in the School of Business. "

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