Our Electronic Commerce course has been offered online since 1997. In January of 1999, the MIS Department began offering the entire Master's degree in Management Information Systems online.

The University of Illinois at Springfield has a tradition of offering innovative programs to students at the time and place most convenient for them.  Students may take either traditional classroom instruction, all online courses, or they may “mix and match” traditional in-class instructions with online courses.

UIS operates on 16-week semesters.  The online courses follow the 16 week format.  Students have weekly assignments, which are available on the Internet although to accommodate the schedules of those students who travel for their jobs, assignments are generally available two weeks in advance.  Assignments include reading and/or listening to the instructors' “lectures,” participation in computer mediated conferencing (using Blackboard and/or Elluminate Live!), doing homework problems and exercises, taking online quizzes, and participating in small groups to work on cases or projects.  In many ways the course is like taking a traditional course with the main difference being there is more interaction between the student and the instructor (and with fellow students) in the online version. The increased interaction is responsible for the high level of learning that occurs in these classes.

Curriculum: The curriculum is designed to integrate information technology with business and management concepts.

Faculty: Most of the faculty who teach in the MIS program have real-world experience. In addition, all either have, or are pursuing, their doctorate. 

UIS has a tradition of offering innovative programs to students at the time and place most convenient for them.  The MS degree in MIS offers three options:

The online courses are being developed and taught by the same faculty members who teach the traditional in-class sections of the courses, thereby assuring the quality of the online courses is as good as or better than the traditional in-class instruction.