MIS 301Lower division3 credit hours
MIS 301 Introduction to Information Technology Management
Since 2011, MIS 301 has averaged 3.32 with 25% A’s. In Spring 2026 it averaged 3.66, about the same as other undergraduate MIS classes that term.
Registration detailsBefore you register
Listed for Spring 2027 · UT’s published schedule
UT prerequisites and restrictions
- Who can take it
- Restricted to students in the McCombs School of Business.
- Catalog edition
- 2026–27
- Class hours a week
- 3
- Grading
- Letter grade only
- Repeat for credit
- No
- Core curriculum
- Natural science and technology, part II (093)
Grade distribution
Spring 2026: 579 letter grades, 3.66 average GPA, 48% A’s, 10 sections
Bars show the selected term. Short lines show all terms combined.
Grade counts
| Grade | Students | Share | All terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 277 | 47.8% | 25.4% |
| A− | 162 | 28.0% | 23.2% |
| B+ | 64 | 11.1% | 17.1% |
| B | 39 | 6.7% | 14.7% |
| B− | 18 | 3.1% | 9.4% |
| C+ | 8 | 1.4% | 4.0% |
| C | 3 | 0.5% | 3.0% |
| C− | 6 | 1.0% | 1.6% |
| D+ | 2 | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| D | 0 | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| D− | 0 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| F | 0 | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| Q, W, CR, and others | 16 | Not in the average | |
How have grades changed?
UT’s grade reports show 36 terms from Fall 2011 to Spring 2026 (15 falls, 15 springs, and 6 summers).
Grades by term
| Term | Sections | Letter grades | Average GPA | A’s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | 10 | 579 | 3.66 | 47.8% |
| Fall 2025 | 9 | 452 | 3.52 | 33.4% |
| Spring 2025 | 10 | 517 | 3.55 | 38.7% |
| Fall 2024 | 9 | 484 | 3.50 | 36.6% |
| Spring 2024 | 9 | 567 | 3.52 | 33.5% |
| Fall 2023 | 9 | 531 | 3.25 | 27.5% |
| Spring 2023 | 9 | 529 | 3.24 | 17.2% |
| Fall 2022 | 9 | 501 | 3.23 | 23.4% |
| Spring 2022 | 9 | 485 | 3.24 | 19.8% |
| Fall 2021 | 9 | 461 | 3.29 | 22.1% |
| Spring 2021 | 9 | 330 | 3.53 | 40.0% |
| Fall 2020 | 9 | 433 | 3.38 | 25.2% |
| Spring 2020 | 9 | 263 | 3.60 | 31.6% |
| Fall 2019 | 9 | 520 | 3.20 | 9.6% |
| Spring 2019 | 9 | 528 | 3.32 | 29.9% |
| Fall 2018 | 9 | 550 | 3.30 | 22.2% |
| Spring 2018 | 9 | 482 | 3.19 | 18.9% |
| Fall 2017 | 9 | 551 | 3.21 | 15.6% |
| Summer 2017 | 1 | 12 | 3.58 | 33.3% |
| Spring 2017 | 9 | 570 | 3.21 | 13.3% |
| Fall 2016 | 9 | 543 | 3.19 | 13.4% |
| Summer 2016 | 1 | 17 | 3.49 | 23.5% |
| Spring 2016 | 9 | 514 | 3.19 | 20.6% |
| Fall 2015 | 9 | 589 | 3.18 | 13.9% |
| Summer 2015 | 1 | 24 | 3.28 | 25.0% |
| Spring 2015 | 8 | 496 | 3.18 | 17.9% |
| Fall 2014 | 9 | 595 | 3.24 | 17.6% |
| Summer 2014 | 1 | 37 | 3.31 | 35.1% |
| Spring 2014 | 8 | 561 | 3.21 | 25.8% |
| Fall 2013 | 8 | 543 | 3.46 | 30.2% |
| Summer 2013 | 1 | 49 | 3.80 | 75.5% |
| Spring 2013 | 7 | 463 | 3.30 | 25.3% |
| Fall 2012 | 9 | 568 | 3.35 | 36.8% |
| Summer 2012 | 1 | 35 | 3.56 | 40.0% |
| Spring 2012 | 7 | 412 | 3.31 | 27.4% |
| Fall 2011 | 9 | 522 | 3.31 | 31.0% |
What’s MIS 301 about?
Explores how information technology helps to achieve competitive advantage and improve decision making, business processes, operations, and organizational design. Uses a cross-functional perspective to recognize the role of technology across business activities of management, finance, marketing, human resources, and operations. Management Information Systems 301 and 301H may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Prepare for class
- Information technology
- Operations
- Organizational design
- Decision making
Review · Map who creates, checks, and uses the data for one routine business decision.
Self-check · Two departments each store a customer’s address. What problem could that cause?
Show the answer
Updates can reach one department and leave the other using an old address.
Instructors and course documents
Open a term for section numbers and syllabi.
Fall 2024 · Dustin McQuaide · 1 section
- Section 04480 · Syllabus
Fall 2024 · Elizabeth Ghini · 1 section
- Section 04484 · Syllabus
Fall 2024 · John-Patrick Akinyemi · 1 section
- Section 04445 · Syllabus
Fall 2024 · Katie Gray · 3 sections
Fall 2024 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04475 · Syllabus
Earlier terms and instructors (127)
Spring 2024 · Katie Gray · 3 sections
Fall 2023 · Becca Robertson · 1 section
- Section 04740 · Syllabus
Fall 2023 · Christopher Burke · 4 sections
Fall 2023 · Dustin McQuaide · 1 section
- Section 04745 · Syllabus
Fall 2023 · Elizabeth Ghini · 1 section
- Section 04705 · Syllabus
Spring 2023 · Elizabeth Ghini · 3 sections
Spring 2023 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04480 · Syllabus
Spring 2023 · William Finney · 3 sections
Spring 2023 · Zhuoran Jiang · 1 section
- Section 04490 · Syllabus
Fall 2022 · Becca Robertson · 1 section
- Section 04640 · Syllabus
Fall 2022 · Elizabeth Ghini · 3 sections
Fall 2022 · TJ Guo · 1 section
- Section 04620 · Syllabus
Spring 2022 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Spring 2022 · Ruijiang Gao · 1 section
- Section 04295 · Syllabus
Spring 2022 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04300 · Syllabus
Spring 2022 · William Finney · 1 section
- Section 04285 · Syllabus
Fall 2021 · Christopher Burke · 3 sections
Fall 2021 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Fall 2021 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04345 · Syllabus
Fall 2021 · William Finney · 1 section
- Section 04335 · Syllabus
Spring 2021 · Christopher Burke · 1 section
- Section 04385 · Syllabus
Spring 2021 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Spring 2021 · Wanxue Dong · 1 section
- Section 04375 · Syllabus
Spring 2021 · William Finney · 1 section
- Section 04390 · Syllabus
Fall 2020 · Christopher Burke · 3 sections
Fall 2020 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Fall 2020 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04030 · Syllabus
Fall 2020 · William Finney · 1 section
- Section 04040 · Syllabus
Spring 2020 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2020 · Unk Vasundhara · 1 section
- Section 03960 · Syllabus
Spring 2020 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 03950 · Syllabus
Fall 2019 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Fall 2019 · Subrahmanyam Karanam · 1 section
- Section 03905 · Syllabus
Spring 2019 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2019 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04040 · Syllabus
Fall 2018 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Fall 2018 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 03915 · Syllabus
Summer 2018 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 71605 · Syllabus
Spring 2018 · Haris Krijestorac · 1 section
- Section 03560 · Syllabus
Spring 2018 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2018 · Xiaowei Mei · 1 section
- Section 03550 · Syllabus
Fall 2017 · Cenying Yang · 1 section
- Section 04185 · Syllabus
Fall 2017 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Fall 2017 · Junjie Qian · 1 section
- Section 04225 · Syllabus
Fall 2017 · Mehmet Ayvaci · 1 section
- Section 04220 · Syllabus
Fall 2017 · Vijay Joglekar · 1 section
- Section 04210 · Syllabus
Spring 2017 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2017 · Xiaofan Li · 1 section
- Section 04135 · Syllabus
Spring 2017 · Yingda Zhai · 1 section
- Section 04125 · Syllabus
Fall 2016 · Huoy Khoo · 1 section
- Section 04275 · Syllabus
Fall 2016 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Fall 2016 · Ramesh Rajagopalan · 3 sections
Fall 2016 · Shi Ying Lim · 1 section
- Section 04295 · Syllabus
Summer 2016 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 71665 · Syllabus
Spring 2016 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Fall 2015 · Bruce White · 1 section
- Section 04230 · Syllabus
Fall 2015 · Ramesh Rajagopalan · 3 sections
Fall 2015 · Shu He · 1 section
- Section 04220 · Syllabus
Fall 2015 · Yanzhen Chen · 1 section
- Section 04250 · Syllabus
Summer 2015 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 71925 · Syllabus
Spring 2015 · Bruce White · 1 section
- Section 03785 · Syllabus
Spring 2015 · Joshua Rock · 4 sections
Spring 2015 · Wen Wen · 3 sections
Fall 2014 · Bruce White · 1 section
- Section 04195 · Syllabus
Fall 2014 · Gene Lee · 1 section
- Section 04210 · Syllabus
Fall 2014 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Summer 2014 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 71895 · Syllabus
Spring 2014 · Bruce White · 1 section
- Section 04060 · Syllabus
Spring 2014 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2014 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 04070 · Syllabus
Spring 2014 · Wen Wen · 3 sections
Fall 2013 · Bruce White · 3 sections
Fall 2013 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2013 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2013 · Liangfei Qiu · 1 section
- Section 03925 · Syllabus
Spring 2013 · Shun-Yang Lee · 1 section
- Section 03920 · Syllabus
Fall 2012 · Chung Man Alvin Leung · 1 section
- Section 03925 · Syllabus
Fall 2012 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Fall 2012 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 03950 · Syllabus
Fall 2012 · Qian Tang · 1 section
- Section 03930 · Syllabus
Fall 2012 · Zhuoxin Li · 1 section
- Section 03915 · Syllabus
Summer 2012 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 71905 · Syllabus
Spring 2012 · Joshua Rock · 3 sections
Spring 2012 · Katie Gray · 1 section
- Section 03620 · Syllabus
Spring 2012 · Rajiv Mukherjee · 1 section
- Section 03615 · Syllabus
Fall 2011 · Bin Gu · 3 sections
Fall 2011 · Joshua Rock · 1 section
- Section 03947 · Syllabus
Fall 2011 · Kui Du · 1 section
- Section 03920 · Syllabus
Spring 2011 · Ashish Agarwal · 3 sections
Spring 2011 · Elota Patton · 3 sections
Fall 2010 · Bin Gu · 3 sections
Fall 2010 · Elota Patton · 3 sections
Fall 2010 · Huaxia Rui · 1 section
- Section 03920 · Syllabus
Instructor evaluations
UT posts its course evaluation results as one public list per term. Open a term and look for MIS 301 in it: Spring 2026 · Fall 2025 · Summer 2025 · Spring 2025.
UT’s CES ratings search · Results before Fall 2022 · Syllabi and evaluations for MIS 301
The guide links UT’s own results and copies no numbers.
Grades for matched instructor sections
The charts above combine all reported sections. These instructor figures use sections whose grade counts match between UT’s report and Reg+. Names are checked against UT’s syllabus index for the same course, term and section.
See instructor and term figures
| Instructor | Term | Sections | Letter grades | Average GPA | Other grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becca Robertson | Fall 2024 | 2 | 113 | 3.66 | 0 |
| Dustin McQuaide | Fall 2024 | 1 | 54 | 3.60 | 4 |
| John-Patrick Akinyemi | Fall 2024 | 1 | 24 | 3.64 | 2 |
| Katie Gray | Fall 2024 | 3 | 172 | 3.51 | 0 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2024 | 1 | 39 | 3.25 | 0 |
| Becca Robertson | Spring 2024 | 2 | 113 | 3.32 | 5 |
| Katie Gray | Spring 2024 | 3 | 179 | 3.65 | 0 |
| Becca Robertson | Fall 2023 | 1 | 58 | 3.16 | 2 |
| Christopher Burke | Fall 2023 | 4 | 220 | 3.20 | 7 |
| Dustin McQuaide | Fall 2023 | 1 | 56 | 3.52 | 1 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2023 | 2 | 104 | 3.22 | 2 |
| Christopher Burke | Spring 2023 | 2 | 114 | 3.26 | 5 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Spring 2023 | 1 | 56 | 3.21 | 1 |
| William Finney | Spring 2023 | 3 | 180 | 3.21 | 2 |
| Zhuoran Jiang | Spring 2023 | 1 | 60 | 3.19 | 0 |
| Becca Robertson | Fall 2022 | 1 | 57 | 3.35 | 2 |
| TJ Guo | Fall 2022 | 1 | 58 | 3.23 | 0 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2022 | 2 | 87 | 3.20 | 4 |
| William Finney | Fall 2022 | 2 | 119 | 3.20 | 1 |
| Christopher Burke | Spring 2022 | 2 | 119 | 3.33 | 1 |
| Joshua Rock | Spring 2022 | 4 | 201 | 3.20 | 2 |
| Ruijiang Gao | Spring 2022 | 1 | 59 | 3.18 | 1 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Spring 2022 | 1 | 48 | 3.22 | 1 |
| William Finney | Spring 2022 | 1 | 58 | 3.27 | 2 |
| Christopher Burke | Fall 2021 | 3 | 159 | 3.51 | 1 |
| Joshua Rock | Fall 2021 | 4 | 190 | 3.20 | 4 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2021 | 1 | 52 | 3.03 | 2 |
| William Finney | Fall 2021 | 1 | 60 | 3.24 | 0 |
| Christopher Burke | Spring 2021 | 1 | 50 | 3.58 | 15 |
| Joshua Rock | Spring 2021 | 4 | 96 | 3.50 | 30 |
| Tejwansh Anand | Spring 2021 | 2 | 87 | 3.52 | 43 |
| Wanxue Dong | Spring 2021 | 1 | 52 | 3.56 | 15 |
| William Finney | Spring 2021 | 1 | 45 | 3.50 | 20 |
| Christopher Burke | Fall 2020 | 3 | 161 | 3.60 | 7 |
| Joshua Rock | Fall 2020 | 4 | 168 | 3.21 | 18 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2020 | 1 | 43 | 3.43 | 2 |
| William Finney | Fall 2020 | 1 | 61 | 3.20 | 4 |
| Christopher Burke | Spring 2020 | 2 | 84 | 3.65 | 34 |
| Joshua Rock | Spring 2020 | 3 | 78 | 3.52 | 52 |
| Unk Vasundhara | Spring 2020 | 1 | 17 | 3.59 | 12 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Spring 2020 | 1 | 23 | 3.61 | 23 |
| William Finney | Spring 2020 | 2 | 61 | 3.65 | 59 |
| Joshua Rock | Fall 2019 | 4 | 246 | 3.19 | 5 |
| Subrahmanyam Karanam | Fall 2019 | 1 | 36 | 3.21 | 2 |
| Vijay Joglekar | Fall 2019 | 2 | 120 | 3.13 | 3 |
| William Finney | Fall 2019 | 2 | 118 | 3.28 | 1 |
Each average uses only A–F grades in those sections. Other grades stay outside the average. A jointly taught section can describe more than one instructor; these figures cover only the sections we matched.
What comes before and after?
Courses named by UT
See the registration information above.
You can get credit for only one of these
Sources
The Spring 2027 listing comes from UT’s printed schedule, checked November 9, 2026.
Class details come from UT’s Management Information Systems catalog page, 2026–27 edition, checked October 27, 2026. Match requirements to your own catalog and degree plan.
Grades come from UT’s grade dashboard, updated October 27, 2026. UT leaves out some small classes to protect students’ privacy.
Each letter grade counts once. A− has its own bar. Subject averages cover the same subject, level, and term, including this class. How the averages are calculated.
Instructors and syllabus links come from UT’s public syllabus index, checked October 27, 2026.
We reconciled Reg+’s public grade mirror (Fall 2019–Summer 2026, retrieved November 4, 2026) with UT’s grade report, then checked full names against UT’s matching course, term and section. Only exact grade totals and full names appear in instructor figures. MIT license for Reg+.