Now that I’ve received my master degree in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Michigan, working happily as a user experience people, I would like to share some of my thoughts of my alma mater, precious moments of my study in School of Information and I’ll be very glad that this short post can be of use to you.

I studied in School of Information which is an ischool enjoying high academic reputation and having strong faculty resources. If you ask me why I chose or applied to UM, I would say, well, the ischool stayed in top 3 nationalwide for quite a while and I feel really proud to be admitted to the program.

School of Information Website

We have eight concentrations, * Archives and Records Mgmt * Community Informatics * Human-Computer Interaction * Incentive-Centered Design * Info Analysis and Retrieval * Information Policy * Library and Info Services * Preservation of Information and * Social Computing.

I majored in Human-Computer Interaction and I took a bunch of courses from Incentive-Centered Design (which is primarily about information economics and management.) All concentrations have world-class professors, to name a few, Jeff Mackie-Mason, George Furnace; plus, the course setup helps you build a solid foundation for your major knowledge, in the meantime you will also have the freedom to select course you like, you will be encouraged to take internship which count toward your credit(yay) and you will have to take cognate course to broaden your eyes.

The students here are top-notched and yes, I am not kidding. We have students joining CHI conference (which is the most influential annual conference on human-computer interaction) doing the student design competition and we are frequent 1st prize winner. Yes, the 2009 winner is from us. Besides, we have students publishing research papers in this conference; I am honored to be one of them, joining the sustainability panel in CHI 2009.

During our extracurricular time, we have plenty of student organizations doing research, connecting with external clients, watching football game in the largest stadium nationalwide(Go BLUE!), hanging out and having happy hour. Probably you may learn more stuff from these after-school events. One shining point I would like to stress is the Alternative Spring Break program (this was unique in US); the school is contacting some companies & organizations, bringing short-term internship opportunities to students during spring break. I interned at Library of Congress and the experience, was really rewarding.

I didn’t receive a penny for writing this post; this comes from my fervor for School of Information, University of Michigan. If you would like to learn more, feel free to drop me a line. I would love to help.

Ah, did I mention that we have superior career service?

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