When looking at degrees for the business world, some degrees are rather obvious: general business for the well-rounded professional; marketing for advertising skills; administrations for management; human resources for, well, human resources; and English or communications for copy. Even IT & engineering degrees are self-explanatory.
But what’s geographic information systems?
At American Sentinel University, the geographic information systems, or GIS, program prepares the student for the use of databases the include spatial data. It’s useful for online map services, such as connecting residential and business directory information to a road map, and is specifically meant to help users to plot the shortest route from A to B. Think Mapquest, Google Maps, and your GPS system.
