Information Technology
Information delivered quickly and accurately is the key to any successful enterprise. The IT specialist provides the infrastructure for firms to compete strategically by planning, designing, installing and managing the systems used by a firm's functional areas - finance, marketing, human resources management and supply chain management.THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE
NO HEADACHES. With excellent job placement - some get offers months before graduation - our IT students are poised to make an impact when they graduate.
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CROSS TRAIN YOUR BRAIN. With our deeply integrated business core, you'll learn all the fundamental aspects of business functions: accounting, economics, marketing, finance and management. When your understanding of business operations goes beyond the realm of IT to the rest of an enterprise's functions, you broaden your opportunities for advancement.
INTERNSHIPS. Practice your skills with companies such as GE Healthcare, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls Inc., MillerCoors, Accenture, Direct Supply, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, PWC, West Bend Mutual and Fiserv.
EXPLAIN YOURSELF. Our liberal arts-based core curriculum will make you a strong communicator, so you'll be an articulate problem-solver who's equally adept with people and information technology. That will come in handy as you listen to users' needs and design effective systems to meet those needs.
GOING GLOBAL. Our Project Management class works virtually with student development teams in other countries. A winterim course takes students to visit offshore IT firms.
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Suggested curriculum
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Freshman
- Foundations for Business Leadership
- Rhetoric and Composition I & II
- Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective
- Science and Nature Elective
- Introduction to Theology
- Philosophy of Human Nature
- Finite Mathematics
- Elements of Calculus
- Public Speaking
- Two Non-business Electives
Sophomore
- Developing Critical Skills for Business
- Leadership
- Business Statistics
- Principles of Financial Accounting
- Principles of Managerial Accounting
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Literature Elective
- Diverse Cultures Elective
- Theory of Ethics
- Theology Elective
- Non-business Elective
Junior
- Introduction to Information Technology
- Business Applications Development
- Data Base Management Systems
- Applying Business Leadership Skills
- Introduction to Financial Management
- Introduction to Marketing
- Applied Business Economics
- Behavior and Organization
- Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Business Elective
- Non-business Elective
Senior
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Information Technology Elective(s)
- Strategies for Entering the Business World
- Business Policies
- Ethical and Societal Issues Elective
- Legal and Regulatory Environment Elective
- Three Business Electives
- Two Non-business Electives
WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO
Most of our graduates work as systems analysts, programmers and Web developers for accounting firms, airlines, banks, consulting, health care providers, insurance companies - and in their own firms.
Recent employers include:
- Accenture
- Deloitte
- Direct Supply
- Ernst & Young
- GE Healthcare
- Fiserv
- Harley-Davidson
- Hewitt Associates
- Kohls
- New Resources
- Northwestern Mutual
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
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