According to the Dean, Eng. Wondimu Gezahen, the recently opened Melat Information Science College would be embarking on providing management information education based on a system that includes organizational arrangements, structures and procedures for adequate planning and control, clean establishment of objectives and all the manifestations of good organization management. He said that the main goal of the College was to train and produce high calibre professionals to design management information programmes for achieving set objectives, to organize for implementing the plans and to control performance so that plans and actions occur on schedule. He indicated that the need for information in any modern enterprise emanated from Sales & Marketing, Production & Services, Accounting, Finance and Personnel functions. The Dean strongly believed that the training of MIS specialists who knew something about the processes of management, decision making, the information needs of planning, control and security with adequate knowledge of software development was essential to relate the design of an information system and to facilitate those specific needs to meet the growing needs of modern business.

The Extension classes for degree, diploma and advanced certificate studies have already started. The regular day and extension programmes for an equal duration of 21/2 and 11/2 years respectively would fully commence in September 2002. All the courses to be offered would be computer-based and networked on soft wares developed by the College for educational purposes. The students would also be required to design soft wares as part of their educational requirements and be available for the market; the proceeds from the sale would directly go to their pockets.