The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration

Department of MIS & POM Undergraduate

Knowledge, Skills, and Aptitudes Questionnaire Results

Alumni survey results are indicated below (scale: 1= not important, 7=very important). Very important items (average scores >= 6) are shown in red.   

General Topic Areas - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Database 6.48
Systems analysis and design 6.42
Web programming 6.26
Decision Support Systems 5.32
Desktop pc programming 5.13
Hardware 4.65
Workstation/mainframe programming 4.52
 
Desktop pc programming - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Windows 5.71
Java 5.35
Visual Basic 5.23
Linux 5.06
Visual C# 4.77
C++ 4.68
C 4.03
DOS 3.74
SAS 3.45
COBOL 2.97
 
Web programming - How important is it for our graduates to know:
XML/XSL/CSS 5.94
Web services 5.90
Java 5.68
ASP.NET 5.61
Javascript / VBscript 5.35
ASP 5.10
J2EE 4.87
PhP 4.77
Perl 4.00
 
Workstation/mainframe programming - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Linux 5.23
Unix 5.16
SAP/ERP 4.13
IBM VM 3.77
C 3.71
SAS 3.68
DEC VMS 3.65
COBOL 3.16
Fortran 2.81
 
Database - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Oracle 6.16
MS SQL server 6.16
MySQL 5.48
Data warehouse development 5.35
DB2 4.77
 
Systems analysis and design - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Database design 6.52
Project management 6.10
Network design 5.97
Systems/network security 5.65
Baseline project plans 5.23
RAD 4.71
JAD 4.61
SDLC 4.52
CASE 4.42
 
Decision support systems - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Data mining and analysis 5.55
Simulation 4.94
Expert systems 4.52
Natural language processing 4.23
Neural networks 4.16
 
Hardware - How important is it for our graduates to know:
Network maintenance/repair 5.39
PC maintenance/repair 5.00