Overview

• Information systems specialists focus on integrating information technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of businesses and other enterprises, enabling them to achieve their objectives in an effective and efficient way. This discipline’s perspective on information technology emphasizes information, and views technology as an instrument for generating, processing, and distributing information. Professionals in the discipline are primarily concerned with the information that computer systems can provide to aid an enterprise in defining and achieving its goals, and the processes that an enterprise can implement or improve using information technology. They must understand both technical and organizational factors, and they must be able to help an organization determine how information and technology-enabled business processes can provide a competitive advantage.

The information systems specialist plays a key role in determining the requirements for an organization’s information systems and is active in their specification, design, and implementation. As a result, such professionals require a sound understanding of organizational principles and practices so that they can serve as an effective bridge between the technical and management communities within an organization, enabling them to work in harmony to ensure that the organization has the information and the systems it needs to support its operations. Information systems professionals are also involved in designing technology-based organizational communication and collaboration systems.

Program details:

The first four semesters are common for all CCIT students, with the following exceptions:

1-High School Science section students are required to study a preparatory course in mathematics. This course is zero credit, and the student has to successfully pass it during the first year of study. The course’s examinations are officially conducted in one of the governmental Universities’ College of Sciences.

2-Students who do not achieve the minimum English proficiency, as mandated by admission rules laws, in the admission exam are required to register for a preparatory course in English for Special Purposes.

3-At the start of term 5, the student chooses her/his major specialization: Information Systems

 4-At the start of term 6, the student chooses her/his minor specialization: Computer Science, Multimedia and Computer Graphics, or Software Engineering.

5-CCIT curriculum is designed in such a manner as to inject professional training courses within the curriculum to better aid in the preparation of the student for the computing job market, heavily relying on certifications offered by major IT companies, and to equip the students with the needed skills to emphasize Entrepreneurship. Such courses are zero-credit courses but are required for graduation requirements. Furthermore, such courses prepare the students to possibly sit for international certification exams.