Hi I am currently a student at UT doing an MIS degree. I am also a self thought programmer and have made apps before. Therefore I am thinking of transferring to UTSA for CS. I am not really sure what kinda job I want, but I do here people talking about McCombs like it’ll land me an amazing job all the time; even tough i think the medium salary is around 60 thousand a year. I know I want to do something fun that pays well. Can you all help me choose? Do you think a CS degree from UTSA is better than an MIS degree from UT?
The only things really holding me back from doing CS at UTSA is people talking about UT so highly and the harder course work. They make it sound like i would be foolish to leave. However I personally don’t think its that great, but I could be wrong and don’t want to lose that opportunity. In addition I am not so good at math. Calculous is really difficult for me, and CS has a lot more math than MIS. I think ill be fine with the programming classes in CS but all the extra math scares me.
CS does require greater math-like thinking (logic and such). CS is about design and development of computers and software, while MIS is about managing them. What do you really want to do?
I will be applying for CS at UT. However they would have to accept me and I have heard several times that it is extremely difficult to do so and my GPA isn’t even above a 3.5.
I do enjoy game development and wouldn’t mind doing it as a career. I dont know much about MIS since all where doing in my intro class is vocabulary and Excel sheets. Definitely dont want to be making excel sheets for a living tough.
Thanks. Im thinking the same thing. I will be applying this upcoming fall. Im still undecided specially because i would have to go an extra semester now since I will be transferring. However could you tell me why you think CS at UTSA would be better? that would help