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MIS graduates typically earn salaries that range from $47,000 to $57,000 for entry level jobs and from $90,000 to $260,000 for senior positions, according to 2007 data for Las Vegas. |
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A recent article in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems ranks the College of Business MIS Department 13th in the nation for research productivity. The article is based on the number of times research appeared in the three highest ranked peer-reviewed MIS journals, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and MIS Quarterly between 2001 and 2005. The study showed that UNLV ranked in a four-way tie for the 13th spot, edging the highly competitive University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, along with University of California, Irvine, New York University, and University of Houston, which were tied at 18th to round out the top 20.
MIS Research Productivity based on publication count in ISR, JMIS, and MISQ from 2001 to 2005
Rank/University/ISR/ JMIS/ MISQ/ TOTAL
1 U of Minnesota 3 15 5 23
2 U of Texas Austin 5 5 8 18
3 Indiana Univ 4 4 8 16
3 U of So. Cal 6 5 5 16
5 University of Oklahoma 3 2 9 14
6 Georgia State Univ 8 5 13
6 Univ of Pittsburgh 4 5 4 13
8 Carnigie Mellon Univ 7 5 12
9 Univ of Maryland - College Park 6 5 11
10 Georgia Tech 4 6 10
11 Clemson Univ 6 3 9
11 Univ of South Florida 3 3 3 9
13 Penn State 3 5 8
13 Univ of Arizona 8 8
13 Univ of Georgia 8 8
13 Univ of Nevada Las Vegas 3 5 8
13 Univ of Texas at Dallas 6 2 8
18 New York University 4 3 7
18 Univ of California Irvine 3 4 7
18 University of Houston 2 5 7
18 University of Pennsylvania 7 7
(Data from: Jan Guynes Clark, John Warren, and Yoris A. Au, "Carnegie Classifications and Institution Productivity in Information Systems Research: A Scientometric Study", Communications of the AIS, Volume 19, 2007, p. 478-512.)
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