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Alumni Students Information Systems 2015
What does Matt McGhee say most prepared him to thrive in his dream job at a multinational tech giant? Participating in his LDS young single adult ward activity committees—planning dances and mix-and-mingles.
The need for STEM professionals is on the rise, and women are happily stepping up to help meet the exploding demand. According to Forbes, eleven of the top twenty highest-paying jobs for women in 2015 are in STEM fields—among those, information systems managers were ranked eighteenth. And at BYU, more female students are discovering the lure of careers in the field.
When Maria Yacaman came to BYU to play golf, she intended to major in finance, but a required information systems course changed everything.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.