<p>Hi I'm very confused and get very different answers from various sources. What's the difference between the four majors:</p>
<p>Computer Science
MIS
CIS
IT</p>
<p>What jobs/careers would you get underneath each of the 4 ?</p>
<p>MIS/CIS/IT are the same thing. CS is the one that's different, and it's also different from software engineering and computer engineering. I'm no expert on this matter, but based on what I've seen, CS majors can easily do what IT people do (and more), but not the other way around. Most CS majors go into programming roles, but some do IT.</p>
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<p>Google is your friend...You can also compare the two programs at colleges...</p>
<p>On average, I would expect a computer science grad to be superior in technical matters (programming, OS, hardware, etc). I would expect MIS grads to be better communicators, presenters, project managers, and I would expect that they would be more well suited to deal with internal business customers.</p>
<p>That being said, MIS majors learn more "soft" skills which are easier to pick up on the job, while CS majors learn more technical skills. MIS grads can end up being highly technical, but it would be easier for CS grads to transition to MIS type position than for vice versa (although, sometime "techies" get stuck in tech positions because there skills are too valuable there).</p>
<p>Certain engineering type companies will largely only recruit CS majors (ie companies like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin where the internal customers are largely engineers). When I worked in IT, most of the CS grads were in the "Data Center" and largely supported/dealt with other IT groups (ie Websphere Admins, Systems Admins, etc etc). MIS grads were generally product/customer focused and as such dealt a lot with the internal business customers as well as those in the Data Center. That being said, there were some groups that dealt with highly technical software products, and as such were composed totally of CS grads.</p>
<p>BTW, 2 other majors are Computer Engineering and Software Engineering.</p>