If you look at virtually any industry—health care, law, finance, manufacturing, government—information is the driving force behind its evolution and growth. Embedded in even the simplest of transactions, information is integral to making any organization function effectively.

The graduate Information Science and Technology program at Pitt is designed to provide students with the theoretical foundations and advanced knowledge in storing and retrieving information, communicating information among systems, and understanding the interaction between people and information systems as well as the role of information systems and technologies in both business and society.

The iSchool offers a Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) with leading-edge specializations, a PhD in Information Science, and Certificates of Advanced Study (CAS) on topics such as Big Data Analytics and Security Assured Information Systems. Students in the graduate IST program are eligible to take courses that have been approved by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and Pitt is one of only about a dozen schools to offer five CNSS courses.

Program Chair: Peter Brusilovsky

Affiliated Faculty
Dmitriy Babichenko
Marek Druzdzel
Rosta Farzan
Roger Flynn
Daqing He
Stephen Hirtle
James Joshi
Hassan Karimi
Ronald L. Larsen (Dean)
Michael Lewis
Yu-Ru Lin
Paul Munro
Balaji Palanisamy
Robert Perkoski
Michael Spring
Vladimir Zadorozhny