<p>which of these majors would be best pick looking at the job market in US for next 5-10 years and which school would be best for that major in california?
thanks</p>
<p>At the current time, a major in CS or SoftEng is going to get you about the same job in industry. I would recommend these over InfoTech for the student who doesn’t have a good reason for doing InfoTech instead…</p>
<p>There are a lot of good schools in California for CS/SoftEng. Stanford, Berkely, UCLA, USC… you probably wouldn’t do too bad with any of those. Look around.</p>
<p>thanks for your suggestion… i finally got in touch with my college counselor…,my college has a tag agreement with 7 uc schools which are UC Davis Criteria UC Irvine ,UC Merced, UC Riverside , UC San Diego , UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz…unfornatally they dont have an agreement with Berkeley and la. Which of these 7 uc would be a best pick for cs</p>
<p>Probably UCSD</p>
<p>@ fortify…can you please tell me in your opinion why is ucsd is better pick than rest of the 6 schools?</p>
<p>I just use this</p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Computer Science - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>plus UCSD is just a better school overall</p>
<p>thanks for the reply …i was just looking inside their cs major which looks quit interesting however in my opinion ucsc has a better cs program</p>
<p>^ What do you like better about it? You should go to the program you like best, not the most well-ranked program. You’ll get more out of it.</p>
<p>I really want to go to uci and join the Information and Computer Science, B.S…cus that covers the cs and the info tech…however my college is not offering the classes which are required to transfer according to assist i need 3 classes of java but my college is only offering one:(</p>
<p>From my experience, much of the information technology centers around:
- Database Systems
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networks</p>
<p>…definitely 3 courses than can be incorporated into a computer science, computer engineering or mathematics major. You would also need a systems analysis/software engineering/systems engineering-type course to give you knowledge on how to structure development.</p>
<p>@ GLOBALTRAVELER thus i should look into cs program and choose elective with
- Database Systems
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networks
and also take soft eng. courses?
which uc is best known for cs program disincluded Berkeley?</p>
<p>“which uc is best known for cs program disincluded Berkeley?”</p>
<p>UCLA would be the next highest-ranked CS program under the UC umbrella, followed by Irvine, Davis and Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>Now that is undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>As far as what is needed to have a grasp of I.T., look at other programs that offer either a I.T. degree, certificate or graduate certificate…then look at the courses that appear in the most programs. That should give you a list of what is needed for most I.T. degrees. You can do that with Excel.</p>
<p>It’s the same with computer science. Yes, every school tailors its program and creates it own unique course name but if you skim through enough curriculum details, you will see the same courses pop up for a BSCS degree: algorithms, data structures, computer organization/systems programming, operating systems, programming languages, etc.</p>
<p>thanks again…i been looking at the classes offered by uc and you are correct most of the cs classes are the same and ucd and irvine have classes related to it field such as networks and stuff…</p>
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<p>infotech focuses on the ability to use current skills; not the theory aspects that you get in CS courses. So the infotech person learns Oracle DB user and admin while the CS person learns relational theory and SQL DML and DDL.</p>
<p>“infotech focuses on the ability to use current skills; not the theory aspects that you get in CS courses. So the infotech person learns Oracle DB user and admin while the CS person learns relational theory and SQL DML and DDL.”</p>
<p>You are absolutely right. I was thinking CS courses that can at least give you exposure to I.T. areas. If the school has a I.T./I.S. major, by all means…snag a few of those courses.</p>