History       
The department of Information Management was established in 1998.  In the same year, we introduced an undergraduate program that granted admissions to approximately 50 students each year. The graduate program, awarding the M.S. degree, was established in 2000 to meet the growing need of professionals.  This program aims to provide multidisciplinary training in both Information Technology (IT) and management. In 2003, the admissions to undergraduate program grew to 100 students per year. In the same year, the professional graduate program in Executive Management Information Systems was set up to cultivate mid- to high-level officers or executives to enter the industry.  Both theoretical knowledge and practical training are provided in this professional graduate program.
 

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I have spent five years studying in the Department of Information Management. It's the place which changed my business outlook, structured my thinking process, and provided a solid base for me to stand out in my career. Thanks to the teachers, they gave me a good environment to study and conduct research. I particularly want to thank my advisor, Chun-Yi Lin, for his support and encouragement. I really appreciated his guidance.

Goal

The department’s educational goal is to “train and support future IT-professionals by providing solid theoretical training and hands-on practice opportunities, with a view to building integrated information systems that may serve in business, industry, and medicine.” With emphasis on the combination of “information technologies” and “management theories,” students are required, before graduation, to participate in the development of innovative and integrated software systems.  It is our expectation to see students to apply what they learn in class to real life.

Number of students and teachers：
At present, there are 20 full-time professors, and about 450 undergraduate and postgraduate students, with 22.5 student to faculty ratio in this department.

Future development：
1.      Enter to the Formosa Plastics Group: students can intensely connect to the Formosa Plastics Group and the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital during their school days. Besides, they have the priority to admit to serve in the Formosa Plastics Group after graduation.

2.      Other employment opportunities: Skilled people in information management are needed by all kind of jobs. Employment opportunities exist in various walks of life. This department adopts cooperative education where students not only learn knowledge but experience from the Formosa Plastics Group or other businesses. This will be beneficial to students for their future careers.

3.      Further advanced studies: besides studying at Graduate Institute of Information Management, our college still offers Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Graduate Institute of Health Care Management and Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering and other professional institutes. Students can not only choose to study an institute that they are interested in, but also apply for other universities’ institutes for postgraduate education.