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Nine Hot IT skills for 2012 (Sept., 2011)
IT hiring ticks up for the third straight year, and IT pros with programming skills will be first in line for jobs.

U.S. News & World Report (March, 2011) names Robinson's Information Systems program as one of the nation's ten best for 2011-2012.
Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business ranks in the nation's top 10 percent of business schools offering part-time master's (MBA, M.S.) programs. The Robinson College is listed No. 29 among the 295 business schools.

Top 11 IT Skills for 2011 from Global Knowledge
Now that companies have made the decision hire new IT personnel for these upgrades and new systems, just what skill sets will be in demand for 2011?

Highest Paid IT Jobs in Demand for 2011
Robert Half Technology's full list of job titles has increases as low as 0.4 percent for systems analysts and PC technicians, but we've excluded everything below 4.5 percent.

11 Hot Skills in 2011 from Computerworld
IT hiring will pick up slightly next year, and talented programmers and project managers will be at the starting line.

Professor Daniel Robey garners Lifetime Achievement Award (Jan 2010)
The award honors Robey's many achievements during his 36-year career which include advancing IS research, building the IS research community, and nurturing doctoral students and junior faculty.
 
Undergraduate CIS majors are receiving the highest average salary among Robinson graduates.
See the results of the Robinson Career Management Center’s annual student survey.

InfoWorld (Feb.4, 2009) "Surprise! Tech is a safe career choice today: Despite the real issues IT pros have with their jobs, they're better off than with most other professions."
In the current tough U.S. job market, a tech career is actually one of the safest ones to have. Tech is still a good profession with decent pay and relatively solid job security.

CIS is World's Best for Research Productivity (Second in citations)
The Computer Information Systems (CIS) department at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University has been ranked first in the world for research productivity in a study published in a recent issue of Communications of the Association for Information Systems.

Congratulations to Jimmy Dickinson! U.S. Champion, 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup programming competition. Graduate student in the Computer Information Systems MS IS program.
Jimmy Dickinson, a second-year graduate student at Georgia State's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, teamed with his two younger brothers to win the U.S. software design championship at the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition held in Boston earlier this month.