系统和软件小组分析和研究现实生活中的系统，以及采用，设计，开发，测试和维护软件解决方案以提高组织生产率，效率和成果的过程。使组织的任务和目标与软件项目的任务和目标保持一致的重要性已广为人知，这促使人们将研究重点放在系统和软件方面的人员和组织问题以及技术方面。该博士课程面向希望在信息系统领域做出重大科学研究贡献的认真学生。学生被录取为博士学位。秋季和春季学期的学位课程。虽然需要课程学习，但重要的是要了解，令人满意地完成课程学习不是博士课程的目标。要求一名博士候选人根据该候选人的原始研究结果发表可发表的博士学
Systems and Software Group analyzes and studies real life systems, and the processes of adopting, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software solutions to improve organizational productivity, efficiency, and outcomes. The importance of aligning the organizational missions and goals with those of software projects is well recognized which prompts a research focus on the people and organizational issues on both systems and software sides in addition to the technical ones. The Graduate School at UMBC is located in the heart of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, a premier location known for its flourishing tech industry. Our Ph.D. is one of the few programs that approaches Information Systems in a holistic sense, including the social and political elements of building and maintaining complex, large-scale systems. We have a diverse, multicultural faculty and student body that practices an interdisciplinary and applied approach to Information Systems.