Doctor of Philosophy in Information, Risk and Operations Management - Information Systems

The Texas McCombs doctoral program in IROM focuses on training future researchers in decision science, information systems, operations management, and statistics.The Ph.D. program in Information, Risk, and Operations Management includes four different areas, all focused on business applications: Decision Sciences, Information Systems, Operations Management, and Statistics. Students have significant flexibility to design their pathway and may take courses and select their doctoral committee members from a broad interdisciplinary spectrum. Core courses, common to all students in each area, are supplemented with elective courses tailored to accommodate the course of study of individual statements and dissertation writing courses. Students are encouraged to interact with faculty and students from all areas regularly. Most graduate courses are small seminar courses, usually between five-to-ten students.Students in the Information Systems area focus on understanding the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations, and society. The faculty works in areas such as the economics of digital products, digital marketplaces, social media, strategic IT management, the business value of IT, virtual teams and collaboration technologies, healthcare IT, data mining and business analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things and design science using methods including econometric analysis, machine learning, experiments, qualitative research, and mathematical modeling.

Submit your transcriptsSubmit your GRE/GMAT test scores.Request and submit Three Letters of RecommendationSubmit a Statement of Purpose - Statement of goals and objectives (generally about two pages in length) highlighting your particular interests in our Ph.D. program, your relevant credentials related to those interests, and your reasons for wanting to do graduate work at the University of TexasSubmit your current resumeA grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or a comparable GPA in upper-division work—junior- and senior-level courses—and in any graduate work already completed is also required