Computer Information Systems (BS)
Use computer science to change the world.
Turning computer science and programming into a career starts at SWU. In the Computer Information Systems (CIS) program, you’ll expand your skills in accounting, database management, networking, programming, systems analysis, and web design—all while integrating faith and ethical decision-making into everything you do. Our experienced, caring faculty will guide you in developing both the technical expertise and the business acumen you need to succeed in the ever-evolving tech industry.
You can also customize your CIS degree with a concentration in business, media, or music informatics. Along the way, you’ll have opportunities to work with real-life clients, apply for grant funding for research projects, and go beyond the classroom in a practical, faith-integrated, and career-focused program.
The Computer Information Systems (BS) program is approved to receive the Enhanced Scholarship for LIFE Scholarship and Palmetto Fellows.
Concentrations
The concentration in Business Informatics focuses on building your competency in business law, finance, and marketing.
The concentration in Media Informatics will help you develop your media law, public relations, and technical writing skills.
The Music Informatics concentration emphasizes music theory and performance.
- Database administrator
- Network administrator
- Programmer
- Server administrator
- Systems analyst
- Web designer
- Web/app developer
Graduates of the Computer Information Systems program will be able to:
- Rely on a solid theological foundation to make ethical decisions in the workplace.
- Use algorithms and data structures to solve complex computational problems and connect general networking theory to the earned skills necessary for network administration.
- Design basic websites on client systems and lead end-users in building a complete data flow system with business applications.
- Apply accounting principles to business decision-making differences between proprietorships, partnerships, and corporation data systems.
- Competently move data into the third normal form and manipulate and protect data as part of database administration.
