Info Tech Program at UCI Wins Plaudits

UC Irvine’s Graduate School of Management’s focus on information technology is gaining some national attention. The school’s program in information technology for management, which trains students on how to use databases and software to run businesses, ranks 10th in the country, according to a recent study by U.S. News & World Report.

The graduate school’s program eclipses those offered at Harvard, the University of Chicago and UC Berkeley, among others. This is the first time UC Irvine’s program has broken into the U.S. News Top 10, though the most recent Computerworld ranking puts UCI’s information technology program at No. 5 nationally.

The school has made information technology the centerpiece of the MBA program, Dean David H. Blake said. The school has five high-tech centers, which offer students access to banks of computers, software applications and databases. In addition, the number of e-commerce courses has grown from two to eight in the past year, he said.