<p>Hello all. I am having trouble deciding on a school to transfer to after I receive my associates at Prince George's Community College.</p>
<p>I am currently going for an Associates of Science in Information Science.</p>
<p>I want to get my bachelors in Information Systems from either from UMD, UMBC, or Towson. I want to specialize in either Databases or Information Security, or both.</p>
<p>UMD offers Information Systems in the School of Business, UMBC offers IS (with also an Information Assurance concentration) in the College of Engineering and Information Technology, and Towson offers IS (and also computer science with a security track) in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.</p>
<p>Which would be better? UMD offers their IS degree from a business school, while the other two offer their IS degree from the non-business school.</p>
<p>I also would like to be in the school that offers more services in helping me land a nice job after I graduate (internships, co-ops, etc.)</p>
<p>You should apply to all three. Check the priority dates for consideration for scholarships. I think the cut-off for that at TU is Dec. 1.</p>
<p>You also should visit all of the departments, and ask about job placement, internships, and just exactly how your credits from PGCC will transfer. A lot of the information is in the ARTSYS database, but you there still may be courses that aren’t listed that you can get credit for.</p>
<p>Lastly, you may want to consider [UMUC</a> - Homepage](<a href=“http://www.UMUC.edu%5DUMUC”>http://www.UMUC.edu) Your major is one that probably can be completed online part time while you work if you need to.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like you need more information. Email the admissions department at all three schools and ask them what their IS program is like, what they do in terms of internships etc., and try to say “why should I go to your school and not __” without explicitly saying so.</p>
<p>You should talk to a counselor at your community college about your options. It might be that the courses you took won’t be sufficient to transfer into CS in an engineering school.
But it depends on the courses you took and the requirements of the school you are trying to transfer to.</p>
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<p>This is what I’d focus on in your case (at least as much as the academics).
The Baltimore-Washington area offers many internship/co-op opportunities. Talk to people at each school about what they have to offer.</p>