This website has detailed information about our programs, including degrees offered, graduation requirements, course descriptions. Please note, all decisions on applications for freshman and transfer admission are determined by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Their contact information may be found here.

ISE majors may participate in research projects supervised by our faculty and register for credit in ISE 487 Research in Information Systems. Through a University program, URECA, students participating in supervised research may partake in summer research fellowships, small grants and travel grants. ISE 487 may satisfy 1-upper division ISE elective or could potentially satisfy a specialization requirement if taken for 3 or more credits.

Students doing an approved computer-related project for a private enterprise, a public agency, or a non-profit organization may register for credit in ISE 488 Information Systems Internship. ISE 488 may satisfy one upper-division ISE elective or could potentially satisfy a specialization requirement.

Our Information Systems program is structured as an applied program of study, the application area being business information systems. Computer Science majors may choose a variety of different electives (e.g., programming languages, databases, computer graphics) and take more natural science and mathematics courses, whereas Information Systems majors follow a more focused computing curriculum and take additional business or economics courses.

Information systems workers can be found in most major companies and virtually all companies in the Information Technology industry. There is a wide spectrum of such jobs, but many require an understanding of the business of the company, use computer systems, and serve as an interface between non-technical users/employees and software developers. For example, the Stony Brook University Medical Center employs well over 100 IT workers, yet they would not characterize any of them as Computer Science workers. These workers are concerned with the operation of the Medical Center servers and networks, the selection, training, testing, and installation of software package, the training of users, along with a variety of other tasks. In a software organization, the IS work typically includes requirements gathering and analysis, interface design, marketing, quality assurance, channel management, and training. These jobs usually do not directly involve software development, but require an understanding of the issues in software development as well as a comprehensive understanding of the use of software systems, along with good communication skills.