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Brigham Young University information systems students earned top marks in their first appearance at the National Collegiate Conference (NCC) in West Lafayette, Ind. Two of the six students from BYU’s Marriott School of Management scored among the top three in individual competitions.
Competing against a record number of contestants, a team of three MISM students won the winter 2007 Omniture Web Analytics Competition hosted by the Rollins Center for eBusiness.
A group of Marriott School students took top marks during the AITP National Collegiate Conference in Memphis, Tenn.
An average person attending a lecture about “model-driven system development” would likely be lost and confused within minutes. Likewise, as Stephen Liddle has attempted to teach this concept in his ISys 532 class, he is often met with blank stares.
After competing in a rigorous contest, six Marriott School of Management undergraduate students heard those magic words: "You're hired."
Students and a faculty member were honored with 2009 Bateman Awards, the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
BYU's students reeled in eight awards this spring at the AITP National Collegiate Conference in Oklahoma City.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Marriott School students are equipping themselves with the skills by interning for some of the biggest names in business.
Filled with fine granular rock and mineral particles, sandboxes are a child’s paradise. They foster creativity in a realm of seemingly endless possibilities. The pull is so strong they often attract even the family cat.
Competing against 68 other colleges and universities, six BYU information systems students brought home eight awards this spring.
At one of the most elite and grueling ISys competitions in the world, BYU won first-place at the APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge in Singapore.
It’s hard for many students to remember the days before iPods, Hulu, Twitter, and Skype. If you were to stroll across campus, odds are you could find all of these and many more technologies in use—they have become central to university life.
After a 17-hour test of endurance and IT skill, six BYU students took home nine AITP awards — more than ever before.
A class project turned into a winning business for BYU student Saul Howard in the Crexendo Website Competition.
Class begins with everyone looking intently at the same spreadsheet on their laptops. Today’s task: learning how to calculate financial ratios like debt-to-equity, asset turnover, and net profit margin—with the click of a button.
Three tech-savvy students have redesigned a BYU rite of passage: the search for Provo housing.
Forbes.com recently highlighted Nick Walter, who changed his trajectory by teaching Apple's new programming language.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.
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.
Three BYU students are beefing up the face of agriculture with a new venture that could go from MISM capstone course to cash cow.
Information systems students excelled yet again at the Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference.
A small team of Marriott School information systems students came up with big rewards at recent competitions hosted by the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Marriott School programs are notorious for having limited enrollment and low acceptance rates. Every summer, hopeful Marriott School applicants anxiously await the news of whether they’ve been accepted into their prospective majors.
Last May, senior Zac Quist and masters students Cody Pettit and James Dayhuff were three Marriott School information systems students excited to begin their internships together at oil and gas giant ExxonMobil. Four months later, not one, not two, but all three students landed full-time offers at the company’s Houston offices.ExxonMobil’s hiring target has been extremely competitive the last few years due to low gas prices, but the company was impressed by the Marriott School students enough to want them all back after graduating.