The Information Technology Management (ITM) concentration is designed to facilitate flexible curriculum planning. Flexible curriculum planning is necessary because the IT field is—made up of a variety of job types that exist across different departments, management levels and industries. This variety is evident in a comment from one student who recently attended an IT career exchange seminar.

“Hi Professor Gilleran, I have just gotten back from the IT career exchange seminar and may I say that it's amazing how many different [areas] an IT major can get into. I, like many others, thought that IT is just data management, and that working in the field means hours and hours of importing data without interacting with people. [But] I was proven wrong, and I am glad […] because that means that IT is a lot more interesting than what I [had viewed] it to be.” (October 26, 2004)

While the various IT job types have a core set of knowledge and skills, each job type also has specialized knowledge and skills. The concentration requirements are designed to provide both core and specialized knowledge and skill sets. The core is gained through two required courses, which include MIS3660 Prototyping with Information Technology and MIS3640 Problem Solving or MIS3690 Web Technologies. The specialization is gained through two electives that are chosen from among several ITM courses. Students are guided in their elective selections by identifying a career interest, which more or less corresponds to one IT job type or position.