I need a list of the 10 best accredited programs for a master in
science in information system management in USA.

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Request for Question Clarification by leader-ga on 29 Jun 2004 07:01 PDT

Hello elroul-ga:

By 'best accredited programs', do you mean the top business schools in
Info System Management?

Sincerely,
leader-ga.

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Clarification of Question by elroul-ga on 29 Jun 2004 08:39 PDT

That's right, and espcially for a master degree in this special program.

Hi elroul,

A look at USNEWS's own website reveals the top 3:
1.  University of California?Berkeley  
2.  Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 
(tied)   Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdsci/brief/comsp1_brief.php
And a way for you to pay more money to get the whole list.

I happen to be sitting in a library and got the 2002 version for you.
The top 10 in terms of Databases are:
1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. U Wisc-Madison
4. U Maryland-College Park
5. Oregon Grad Institute of Sci/Tech
6. U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7. Georgia Inst Tech
8. UT-Austin
9. CMU
10. MIT

Luckily my favorite university landed top of the current USNEWS list.
You can find Berkeley's school of information management and sciences
at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/. The outgoing dean, Hal Varian, has
written several guest articles for respected nationwide publications
like the Wall Street Journal. The new dean, AnnaLee Saxenian, has
written a book specifically on the new startup culture in Information
Technology and Management.

Some other programs I saw:

Harvard University offers a PHD in Information Technology in
Management, offered jointly by the school of engineering and Harvard
Business School.
http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/programs/degree/itm.html
http://www.deas.harvard.edu/gradstudy/itandmanagement/

Yale University offers a Master's Degree in Computer Science. 
http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html2003/grad/cpsc.html

In addition, a simple google search will show you SOME of the schools
but not in the ranked order you suggested.

search strategy:
information systems management admissions site:XXXX.edu
online academic lexis-nexis
usnews.com website
actual usnews publication

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=information+systems+management+masters+admissions


PS - I like to see questions answered so someone please answer this :)

Hi elroul,

I found another listing which may be applicable to you, dealing with
MBA programs in "Management Information Systems".

1. MIT (Sloan)
2. CMU
3. UT Austin (McCombs)
4. Arizona (Eller)
5. Stanford
6. U Minnesota-Twin Cities (Carlson)
7. Penn (Wharton)
8. NYU (Stern)
9. UM-College Park (Smith)
10. UM-Ann Arbor

Good luck!

Don't Come to MIT, you won't like it, even though it is good