BSc (IS Management) Graduates typically start off in job roles such as management associate, business analysts, technology analysts, operations analyst, consultant, manager, or software engineer.

The roles awaiting our graduates are present in a wide range of industries, spanning the entire economy. They pay well and provide a broad and deep exposure to how the entire organisation functions, and therefore provide an excellent foundation for career growth and advancement. Equally important, these types of starting jobs provide multiple pathways for career growth and advancement.

Here is another way to visualise the range of opportunities available to our students after they graduate. The eleven output arrows below provide a more detailed description of the range of opportunities our students are pursuing after they graduate.

Note the first two arrows are graduate school options. A number of our students have proceeded on to IT related Masters programmes at Carnegie Mellon, at SMU, and at other universities. Some of our students have proceeded on to other types of graduate programmes, such as the Master programme at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS.

The last two arrows are different types of business roles some of our students have pursued. Usually when our SIS graduates move into regular business roles, they still leverage their knowledge and capabilities related to information technology and systems in business settings.

The seven arrows in the middle describe the wide array of job roles our graduates are moving into that are more directly related to using and managing IT in business, government and non-profit settings. These job roles span a wide spectrum, from the many different types of Business IT Professional roles, to the various types of IT Software Professional roles. Across all seven of these job role families, the employer may be an IT solution and service provider firm, or an end user organisation in the private, public, or non-profit sector.

Industry leaders have told us repeatedly that our BSc (IS Management) graduates make great Business Analysts! The job role of a Business Analyst is one of the many ways in which our graduates can gain high valued employment as a Business IT Professional. Our graduates who start their working career on this pathway bring tremendous business value to their employers from Day One.

Some of the very strong advantages of starting off one’s career as an IT trained Business Analyst are as follows:

1. You quickly learn a lot about both the depth and breadth of the organisation you work with.

   This results from the analysis you need to do to determine how to best integrate and manage data, information and knowledge across business functions and business units for the particular application project or transformation project you are working on.

2. You quickly get both a macro and a micro view of "slices" of the organisation.

   When Business Analysts work on projects, they have to see how the big picture fits together with the little pieces: how the high level business needs link to business performance targets; how these performance targets link to the new solutions and related processes that are being pursued; how these solutions and processes need to be designed and used in ways that meet the needs of individuals and groups doing particular jobs. And finally, the details of how individuals, groups and organisational units make use information to do essentially every aspect of their work, ranging from monitoring activities, to problem solving, to various types of decision making, to bigger picture and strategic analysis and planning, along with the various types of communication, collaboration, data collection and business analytics required to support all of these.

3. You become an expert in how the organisation operates, thinks, manages information and makes decisions relatively quickly.

   After just a few years on the job, you are one of the more knowledgeable people in the company on how that business goes about doing its business. This type of expertise creates a wide range of opportunities for you.

4. You become very knowledgeable about the most important enterprise business solutions used to operate and manage the company.
5. You create options for expanding your career in that same organisation in a number of directions:
   1. You might choose to become a senior business analysts, and then a senior consultant and likely a senior project manager within the company.
   2. You might get so knowledgeable about parts of business operations and business functions that you get "invited" to join these business groups as a manager or a key professional staff member.
   3. You might get so knowledgeable about critical business applications and the full "end-to-end" enterprise solution for certain key functions that you get "invited" to take on a key role in the enterprise business systems group, or in other parts of the organisation responsible for driving corporate performance through IT-enabled systems.
6. You create a fantastic knowledge and experience for doing consulting, either for one of the world’s major business consulting firms, technology consulting firms or integrated business and technology consulting firms.

Here is another way to visualise the range of opportunities available to our students after they graduate. The eleven output arrows below provide a more detailed description of the range of opportunities our students are pursuing after they graduate.

The National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) provides information on a wide range of IT related job roles, ranging from roles for fresh graduate entrants to senior management roles. These occupations provide many specific examples of some of the job roles for Business IT Professionals, IT Software Professionals, as well as for IT and IS Management professionals.

View more information on NICF.