Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Information and Telecommunication Systems] From Ohio University

Whenever you use the internet, make a telephone call, or use a cell phone, information network technology is at work. The McClure School of Information and Telecommunication Systems will prepare you and your fellow students for careers in the rapidly growing network field. You’ll learn about the design, management, regulation, and application of information network technology and about the business of acquisition and sales of networking products and services. The McClure School offers the Bachelor of Science in Communication degree. To earn your degree, you will work with the McClure School’s faculty in the classroom and utilize the McClure School’s extensive laboratory facilities, gaining hands-on experience with the technologies that are revolutionizing the way that individuals, businesses, and governments communicate. You’ll learn about IP networking–the basis of the internet and foundation of communication applications like email, the World Wide Web, and streaming video–and many other new and developing areas: wireless networking, consumer broadband access, network security, personal privacy, to name a few. You’ll study how these technologies integrate into the business world, changing the way businesses operate; internally, with their customers, and with their suppliers. You will also examine the economic and public policy implications of information technology and how the technology is utilized. The McClure School’s program for voice, data, and image communication systems is one of the few in the country and unique in the state of Ohio.