Which of these three degrees should be my Major in college?

[LW07]

Information Systems, Computer Science, or Information Technology?

I want to know which one would get me a job the fastest 4 years from now should the recession STILL be going on by then.

 

[magomago]

CS or IS

 

[LW07]

Yeah, the main struggle i'm having is IS vs CS since both can do IT just as well.

What would be the difference between IS and CS?

 

[Jumpem]

Computer Science for sure.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: LW07
Yeah, the main struggle i'm having is IS vs CS since both can do IT just as well.

What would be the difference between IS and CS?

IS is usually what the kids that can't handle CS switch to. :laugh:

 

[BoomerD]

Which area do you LIKE best?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What's the difference between all of them?

What's the difference between those and Computer Engineering?

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Which area do you LIKE best?

Don't know really. I know IT is about maintaining computers and i've troubleshooted mine many a time(albeit mainly by using google and/or reformatting and reinstalling windows).

IS, i think is more about dealing with people and taking information that you get from something and making it useful for the people your working for.

CS is about designing the hardware, software, and algorithms.

A professor told me that its like a Formula 1 race car, where IT is the pit crew that keeps the car going, IS is the person driving the car, and CS is the people who design the car.

 

[dirtboy]

You should do what you enjoy best and if you don't know, take some time to find out. Having a paycheck is nice, but going to work and being miserable every day is not worth it -- despite what you may think now.

 

[nerdress]

Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

Choose criminal justice

 

[LW07]

Also, if one got a job as an IT/CS/IS person in a hospital or other health care place, would their job be recession proof?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: nerdress
Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

Well, this is a tech forum after all.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: LW07
Also, if one got a job as an IT/CS/IS person in a hospital or other health care place, would their job be recession proof?

No.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: LW07
Also, if one got a job as an IT/CS/IS person in a hospital or other health care place, would their job be recession proof?

Well a hospital would have IT and IS types, but they wouldn't have any CS coding type positions.

 

[frostedflakes]

Do you enjoy programming? If not, you probably want to stay away from computer science. You'd need to take some programming for IT and IS, but not nearly as much.

 

[villageidiot111]

CS will get you the best job.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Also, if one got a job as an IT/CS/IS person in a hospital or other health care place, would their job be recession proof?

Go into nursing if you want that kind of job security. (at least in my state)


I do not know much about IS.

Pay / career wise?
Start with CS and if you find that you hate mathematics and theory, fall back to IT. By the time I graduated, very few of the undergraduates that I "grew up with" remained in CS, nearly all fell back to IT to dodge the tougher classes.

Thankfully, I endured and graduated with a BS in CS. Working on my MS in computer engineering now. I do not know, but I imagine that having a BS in CS would be better than having an IT or IS degree if you wanted to get a graduate degree.

Originally posted by: nerdress
Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

There is a handful of EE and Computer Engineers around as well.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: dirtboy
You should do what you enjoy best and if you don't know, take some time to find out. Having a paycheck is nice, but going to work and being miserable every day is not worth it -- despite what you may think now.

Exactly...which is why I asked which he LIKED best. Not much worse than a job you HATE everyday.

Originally posted by: nerdress
Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

Choose criminal justice

Nope...I kan bearly spel sea-ess...let alone eye-ess

I do NOT wear the wizard robes...

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: nerdress
Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

Choose criminal justice

yeah I sometimes feel like I don't fit in. :laugh:
<-- International Studies: Security and Intelligence

but then I remember, neffing unites all

edit:
though I should admit, lately I've been pretty sure about switching my Army branch "choice" to Signal (communications), though Army has to use their infinite wisdom to decide I can have that.
Used to study CCNA, never went for a cert because before I finished I decided I didn't want that as a career. I'm very indecisive about career choices. :laugh:
if it wasn't for my blood contract of 4 years, I wouldn't have a clue. Hopefully, if I decide to get out after the contract is up, I'll have figured the future out in those 4 years. Have to wait to make the decision of it being a career.

 

[SandEagle]

Originally posted by: Jumpem

Originally posted by: LW07
Yeah, the main struggle i'm having is IS vs CS since both can do IT just as well.

What would be the difference between IS and CS?

IS is usually what the kids that can't handle CS switch to. :laugh:

heh. if you want to become a lowly developer, CS for sure. If you want to become the sysadmin that the lowly developers come begging to for access, then IS.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Trying to decide between Poly Sci and Comp Sci and Engineering right now. Two completely different things but i enjoy both, go figure.

 

[nerdress]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: nerdress
Is EVERYONE a CS or IS major here?

Choose criminal justice

yeah I sometimes feel like I don't fit in. :laugh:
<-- International Studies: Security and Intelligence

but then I remember, neffing unites all

I'm taking my criminal justice courses online right now...and do you have ANY idea how hard it is NOT TO NEF?!?!

Everyone is a fucking moron--totally excited about nothing. At least in class, those idiots wouldn't raise their hand to say something, and if they did, I'd tell them to shut the fuck up. But I can't say that online now :|

This is going to be a VERY difficult semester.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Jumpem

Originally posted by: LW07
Yeah, the main struggle i'm having is IS vs CS since both can do IT just as well.

What would be the difference between IS and CS?

IS is usually what the kids that can't handle CS switch to. :laugh:

If you interviewed with me and another did and all things seemed equal, I'd take the CD Degree.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: SandEagle

Originally posted by: Jumpem

Originally posted by: LW07
Yeah, the main struggle i'm having is IS vs CS since both can do IT just as well.

What would be the difference between IS and CS?

IS is usually what the kids that can't handle CS switch to. :laugh:

heh. if you want to become a lowly developer, CS for sure. If you want to become the sysadmin that the lowly developers come begging to for access, then IS.

Or if you do CS, you get your own PC that is off network and get full control over it. Thus making the need for IS people non existent.

 

[LW07]

So a CS degree would make me the most desirable for jobs when compared to IS and IT degrees?