Impact of Management Information System on the Administration of Tertiary Institutions in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the impact of management information system on the administration of tertiary institutionsiger State, Nigeria”. Two purposes guided the study which were toassess the impact of management information system record keeping in tertiary institutions and examine the impact of management information system on decision making process in tertiary institutions in Niger State. Two research questions andhypotheses werend formulated respectively to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was used. The population of the study was 3,093 which consisted 63 management staff who hold the positions of authority, 1,216 academic staffnd 1,814 non-academic staff encompassing employees who are not instructors. The sample of the study was 333 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to obtain the sample size. A self-designed questionnaire was used as an instrument for the study. Frequency counts, simple percentageere used to answer the research questions while One-Way-Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the formulated null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that management information systems (MIS) significantly enhance institutional records management by improving organization, and reliability of information. Also, it shows that (MIS) have a significant impact on decision-making among management, academic, and non-academic staff. The study recommended that tertiary institutions in Niger State should make more use of (MIS) in record keeping through uniform training and implementation practices that will strive to further improve access to records.