The impact of IT on curricula design of Information Management and Information System Doctoral Education in China

Although there are a lot of researches on Information Management and Information System education in China, little research is done in examining the impact of IT on doctoral curricula by Information Management and Information System programs in China to reveal: what courses are offered? what is the most popular subject area? how Information Management and Information System schools change their curricula to meet today´s challenges? In order to address above questions, this study gives a brief summary of the curricula of Information Management and Information System doctoral programs in China. Findings show that there is no national consensus of what should be the core of the Information Management and Information System discipline for PhD education in China. The largest percentage of the courses offered relate to Management Science and Engineering. Interdisciplinarity is also featured within the Information Management and Information System PhD curricula in China.