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Information systems senior Nick Kerr and finance senior Priscilla Hobbs are featured in Poets & Quants; list of the top undergraduate students in the nation.
Christmas festivities are in full swing, and many people—including information system students—are joining in on the holiday cheer in a big way to help children at Primary Children’s Hospital.
BYU information systems students are learning how to predict the future through the IS program’s newest capstone class.
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.
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.
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.
Information systems students excelled yet again at the Association for Information Systems Student Chapter Leadership Conference.
Three BYU students are beefing up the face of agriculture with a new venture that could go from MISM capstone course to cash cow.
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.
Pariveda Solutions recently hosted an Ultimate Frisbee game for the ACM and AIS clubs.
BYU information systems students earned three awards at the 2015 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sickness, car wrecks, and births—INTEX, the weeklong rite of passage for information systems students, stops for nothing.
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.
BYU student Jeremy Penrod's website lists offerings for more than 25,000 dresses from dozens of popular retailers.
Six BYU students took home awards from the Association for Information Technology Professionals Competition.
A team of Brigham Young University students took first place at the AIS Student Competition in Tempe, Ariz.
Students at BYU's Marriott School are gearing up for study abroad programs hosted by the Global Management Center.
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.
A class project turned into a winning business for BYU student Saul Howard in the Crexendo Website Competition.
After a 17-hour test of endurance and IT skill, six BYU students took home nine AITP awards — more than ever before.
While students are usually pitching themselves to companies, this time the tables were turned.
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.
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.