Business Information Systems – University of Galway

Our graduates are employed by Accenture, Avaya, CISCO, Google, KPMG, Deloitte, Intel, Lawler Developments, Lionbridge, Pramerica and IBM to name just a few.

100% Employability Rate

100% of BIS graduates are now in degree-related employment. The mix of business acumen, technical skills and management knowledge combined with communication and team skills makes Business Information Systems graduates valuable assets to any organisation. Our graduates pursue careers across a wide spectrum of job titles. Many choose to focus on their business skills and pursue careers as diverse as entrepreneurship, sales, management, or non-business careers such as teaching or law enforcement.

Other graduates focus more on their technology skills and pursue more specialist careers such as:

• Business analyst – defining the optimal technology to drive business.
• Software tester/ developer – application development and testing.
• eCommerce consultant – leveraging internet related technologies for business.
• e-Business specialist – managing supply chains or customer relationship management systems.
• IS manager – managing the range of hardware, software and networking equipment in any organisation.
• Specialist IS consultant – working with enterprise systems such as SAP or Oracle. BIS gives you the flexibility to define your career.

Work Placement

The BIS programme includes a paid work placement, site visits to leading multinational companies and our membership of the SAP and Microsoft University Alliance provides our students with access to the latest industry software while our Industry Advisory Board ensures that the skills, methodologies and theories that you learn are consistent with industry needs.

Study Abroad

BIS students have the option to study abroad in our partner universities in year 3. Some of our partners include Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kogod School of Business (Washington DC, USA), Montana State University (USA), Lehigh University (NY, USA), and ESC Rennes (France). 

Click here to see where your B.I.S degree can take you in the world!

For students who choose not to study abroad, a global experience that fulfills the integrated learning outcomes of a Global Experience without physically going abroad will be offered.

Examples of Visiting professors and CEO- in-Residence initiative‌

• Prof. Bill Schmarzo, CTO, Hitachi Vantara
• Dr Stefan Siedel, University of Liechtenstein
• Mr Gearoid Madden, Accenture Analytics
• Mr John Power, Founder and MD of Aerogen
• Mr. Eoin Corey, Senior Analyst, Accenture
• Mr Gillian Grant, Analyst, Accenture
• Dr Efpraxia Zamani, The University of Sheffield

 Examples of Guest Lecturers, Panel & Seminar Speakers

• Mr Michael Ryan, EMEA Manager, Azure CXP Engineering, Microsoft
• Mr. Alex Burnham, Mazars
• Ms Yvonne Comer, CEO & Co-founder of RugbySmarts
• Ms Danese Cooper, CTO, Paypal,
• Mr Davitt Connolly, Integration Specialist & Team Leader, SAP
• Mr. Stephen Howell, Microsoft
• Dr Annemarie Hanlon, Cranfield School of Management.
• Mr Joe Haslam, Executive Director of Owners Scaleup Program,
• Ms Jane Ann Meehan, Physioflex
• Ms Kate Costello, Global Senior Social Media Manager, Burberry.
• Prof. Robert Scapens, Emeritus Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School
• Mr Conor O’Dowd, CEO Galway Port
• Mr Jim Clarken, CEO Oxfam Ireland
• Ms Katie Lernihan, SAP Services Strategy (BIS Graduate)
• Mr Barry Comerford, CEO Cambus Medical Ms Dora Trachana, Principal, Uni.fund 

Amazon Web Services Educate Program

 We are also a member institution of Amazon Web Services Educate Program.  This program is a global initiative that provides students and educators with the resources needed to greatly accelerate Cloud-related learning endeavours and to help power the workforce of tomorrow. AWS Educate provides grant-based access to AWS, training, and content, while also providing educators and students with a forum for collaboration.  For the BIS discipline, his provides many benefits to students and teaching staff, most importantly free credits for tutorials and labs using cloud services.

Addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals

Modules offered on the BSc (BIS) address all of the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. New modules introduced in recent years include Cybersecurity, Philosophy, Theory and Research Methods in IS, and Introduction to Sustainability.