MS in MIS vs MS in CS : Carnegie Mellon INI

This post is in response to Ramya's question about MS in Management of Information Systems versus MS in Computer Science. This is a difficult question for me and I don't have a good answer.

I do know about another course at Carnegie Mellon University at the Information Networking Institute. It sounds similar to MIS to me but honestly I haven't researched this enough to conclusively say so. I do know at least 3 people who completed this program at CMU. The impression I get is that the program isn't as competitive as CMU's CS program but does allow you to take some of the same courses. What I do know is that the 3 people I knew did very well in the program at now hold jobs at Microsoft, VMWare and HP respectively, which in many senses are good jobs for even folks with an MS in CS. So doing well in the INI program does give you some of the same opportunities as a MS in CS. That's probably all I am qualified to say about this. Do research this program and see if this fits your needs. Hope this helps.