Management Information System (MIS) and Institutional Effectiveness of Universities in South-South Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria

The rapid development and usage of management information system during the past three decades has had many points of contact with effective performance of universities. To achieve the purpose of the study, three (3) research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post-facto design was adopted for the study. The population consisted of six thousand from four (4) universities in the zone. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique, to draw a sample of 414 staff of the universities used for the study, management information system usage and universities effectiveness questionnaire (MISUUEQ) was used to elicit information for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The findings of the study revealed that there is a relationship between management information system usage and institutional effectiveness in terms of examination conduct, students records keeping, staff appraisal, library services. Based on the findings the study concludes that the usage of management information system influences institutional effectiveness of universities. It was therefore recommended among others that more MIS infrastructures should be adequately provided in our universities since the task before them is enormous and more awareness and training should be organized regularly for staff heading faculties, department and units in the system. Keyword: Management, Information System, and Institutional Effectiveness.