<p>Anyone currently majoring in IT can you explain the ins and outs of the degree and the career opportunities. Obviously I googled a lot and gained some information but nothing is better than direct advice. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Anyone have any insight?</p>
<p>I am not sure what you are looking for that cannot be found out more easily through google and your school’s website?</p>
<p>The articles you read on google or the course descriptions are direct advice. Google will provide information on career opportunities and your schools website will provide a better description of what is required for the degree than any of us can give.</p>
<p>RUfreshman:</p>
<p>The best advice I can give is this: when people ask why you majored in IT and not CS, be prepared to give them a good answer.</p>
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<p>I am a bit confused. Is IT major different than the CIS/MIS majors?</p>
<p>In my mind, all three are different (well, CIS and MIS may be the same in some places) and all are different from CS.</p>
<p>CS and MIS are not the same. Very different disciplines. CS focuses on computational theory of the computer and how to facilitate that computation and carry it out. MIS on the other hand is a management degree which focuses more on the business aspect where students take 1 or 2 programming classes and a general class or two on computers, office suits and databases. </p>
<p>If you want a technical degree you want CS or some type of Engineering or Physics. If you want to learn business aspects then you do MIS. If you want to learn application of what others create then IT/CIS is for you.</p>
<p>One aptitude in math usually guides one on their proper path. If you are good at math then CS is more for you, though if are ok at math but maybe don’t really like it try MIS. If you absolutely hate math and cant do it, the CIS/IT is more for you.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. SO I’m assuming it’s better to major in CS than IT.</p>
<p>No, that’s not what I meant. Both majors are equally good. But not everybody will know that. Ignorant people will hear “IT” and think “CS without math”. You’ve got to be able to convince them that IT was the better choice for the positions you’ll be looking for.</p>
<p>It’s something to look in to. Engineering technology majors should be thinking up answers to the question “why not engineering”, etc. Few majors are immune from this. If somebody said “why IT?”, your answer had better be more well-reasoned than “I’m not good at math”, if that’s the case at all.</p>
<p>I think a good response to the “Why IT over CS question” would be (while pointing to a Windows computer): </p>
<p>“I like to fix problems, not create them.”</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>Pandem, I think you’re my favorite online persona.</p>
<p>in IT there’s a lot of logical and critical thinking because we are the one who correct the errors in programming. so it has more to do with mathematical ability because we are mentally and logically thinking of how we can execute the programs in programming. either u hate the math subject or not, IT has a lot of mathematical concepts. not just in literally but it has a lot of how we think logically…about solving problems, debugging etc. as far as I know the cs course is all about the software while the It course has more to do with both hardwares and softwares…</p>