Departments and Programs
The Center for Information Assurance Studies (CIAS) at St. Cloud State is an interdisciplinary effort between the Information Systems in the Herberger Business School and the Computing, Informatics, and Data Science Department in the College of Science and Engineering.
Information Systems
Information Systems offers an undergraduate information systems degree program to students who desire to prepare themselves to enter the management information systems profession. The program is about applying information technology to solve business problems. Students develop skills in analyzing business problems and get hands-on training in computer programming, systems design, computer networking and security as well as other current computer technology. The program also partners with the Computing, Informatics, and Data Science to offer a graduate program in information assurance.
Information Systems in the Herberger Business School
Programs
Computing, Informatics, and Data Science
Computing, Informatics, and Data Science is committed to the high quality preparation of students for administering, designing, and analyzing data networks. This are offers undergraduate programs in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering and information technology security. It also offers a graduate program in computer science and partners with the information systems department to offer the information assurance program.
The information technology security program offers students an introduction to the theoretical and practical foundations of network design and administration with emphases in client/server application programming, practical network design, statistics and data analysis and web page design.
Computing, Informatics, and Data Science