The Department of Information System and Management (previously named as Department of Management Information System) was established in 1985. Now the department has eleven full-time faculty members, including six professors (five doctoral supervisors), four associate professors and one assistant professor. Among them, nine members have got doctor degree (three got it abroad). Among the work of teaching, research and social service, the department keeps close cooperation with information Technology Company, Economic and Management Company as well as government sectors, and has developed extensive academic collaborations with many famous foreign universities.
The department has been in charge of many research projects. The ongoing research projects include seven National Natural Science Foundation of China, two National Key Technology Support Programs, one Social Science Foundation of China Project, one National Science and Technology Major Project and so on. The annual research funding has reached more than eight million RMB. The department has received eight provincial or ministerial awards for science and technology progress and ten awards for excellence in teaching. Our faculty members have published over three-hundred research papers, and fifty of them are indexed by SCI/SSCI; several has been published on the top international journals in the field of information system and management, such as MIS Quarterly and Information System Research. Moreover, they have published more than thirty books.