<p>Hey all. I'm going to be a senior this year at Rutgers. I'm double majoring in IT and Visual Arts and minoring in Comp Sci. I was thinking about completing a Senior's Honor's Thesis and was wondering if it was worth it to drop my Vis Arts major for it. </p>
<p>In general, is an IT and Visual Arts major a good double major combination or should I just stick to my IT and Comp Sci minor?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>bump! Any advice appreciated!</p>
<p>I’m no expert…just a thought from someone with years of corporate experience. Just today my husband was saying he’s glad he never used his IT degree (which he got ten years into his career) to switch to his company’s IT department. That people he’s known with IT degrees are typically earning half what they used to if they can find a job at all. </p>
<p>I think anything that sets you apart with a unique combinations of skills, such as IT plus visual arts, will increase your chance of short and long term success, plus probably make your career more interesting.</p>
<p>My husband has an additional comment. You can get a dual degree now, but not later. You can easily add more IT courses later.</p>
<p>So do you think the idea of staying an extra year to complete a CS degree is better worth it? I am also minoring in CS but had ideas of staying an extra year to complete it as a major.</p>
<p>I had no idea about the dual degree option. Thanks for letting me know.</p>
<p>Sorry, didn’t mean to be confusing. I don’t know the details of what rutgers offers and didn’t mean to say you should stay an extra year or change your major. All i’m saying is combining ANY computer-related degree (IT or CS) with any other very different type of degree (ie art) is probably better than only getting only degrees in a computer field.</p>
<p>Or, to put it another way, unless you’re the best of the best, or unless you love computers more than life itself, a computer degree may not get you far. There are still a lot of people who got degrees when cs was first hot in the eighties and nineties who are now underemployed. There probably aren’t many people in visual arts out there who know a lot about computers. But i could be wrong in that assumption, so you need to check that out. Have you considered making an appointment with a professor in the IT department to ask them?</p>