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Management Information Systems. A "business oriented" computer degree. They were popular in the 80s as an alternative to comp. sci. They focus on how to use databases and spreadsheets, and other analytical and management systems. In those days, "decision support" software was a big thing. Is MIS still a thing anymore?

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It's still a thing, or at least it was a few years ago. I worked with several recent MIS graduates at a consulting firm in the mid-late 2010s. But I'd never even heard of the degree before that point, I majored in math, minored in CS, and did dissertation work in a business school (admittedly, economics, so not particularly business-y).

I got a degree in it in the early 2010s (technically my university called it Information Science and Technology)

I just say "business and computers and how they go together" when explaining it.

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