Why should I not transfer from Day Program to Professional Studies Program? Right now, I’m in the College of Business. Deciding Finance or Management Information Systems. I found out that the Professional Studies Program has Information Technology.
Let’s say I stay in the Day Program. What should I pick? Finance or MIS?
Is IT easier than Computer Science? I’ve done a little CS before. When it comes to overly used programs, I do well. Whereas, if you gave me a program that was recently made and had me program, I would fail. Courses with HTML, MATLab, and C++ were the ones I did okay and had fun in those classes. I’ve worked with Racket/Scheme, and I did terrible.
IT seems to offer beginning programming, C++, Java, SQL, and other coding stuff.
I hear IT is better than Finance and MIS, but people are telling me not to go into Professional Studies.
I’m okay with doing Finance, but MIS sounds interesting. But, I want a major that can lead me to high job outlook and good salary; that points to the direction of IT.
My advisors, friends, and family members are all unhelpful in directing me to a good major that I want. It usually ends with “do what you want to do”. But. I want to do everything and there are so many choices. I don’t want to make a regrettable mistake.
Maybe someone can help? Thanks!
Regular undergraduate and college of proffesional studies are different, you would be going in the college of science for anything computer related. College of proffesional studies is a different degree in a sense will be listed almost like an extension of the university in ur diploma and resume. Hope this helps, you can pick whatever major youd like though in the undergrad program and it has the same if not better than the college of proffesional studies.
Thanks for the advice. Do you know which one is better in the sense of outlook/availability? I have interest in all three, but not sure which are most employable. I heard MIS is flooded. IT is probably off my list. Not sure about Finance. Maybe you can help me out? Thank you!
MIS and IS/IT are not flooded at all as far as I know. Technology is probably the best in terms of outlook, but it will be some CS courses and certainly the toughest. If you don’t enjoy programming and IT work at some level, you aren’t going to enjoy your career. Lisp/Scheme is actually older than all of the other languages you listed - you probably struggled with the course, not the language alone, which focuses on design and problem solving over simply learning a tool/language.
Finance also has a great outlook and NEU’s business program has great placement, so I’m not sure why you want to switch if you don’t really seem to have a preference for any in particular.
Whatever you do, there’s absolutely no reason to go to CPS - I’m not even sure if they grant bachelor’s degrees, as the focus on masters and other supplementary degrees for professionals, as the name suggests.
If both have good outlook, then what are their average salaries? I’m interested in both, more so technology, but will they hire someone with just a bachelor’s in MIS? Maybe it is safer with Finance? Thank you.
I wouldn’t decide based on average salaries, which could change between now and graduation, let alone the course of an entire year. A bachelor’s should be fine for either as far as I know.