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Mgmt Information Systems vs. Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science degrees... HELP!?
Hello to All!!!
I am just about to begin my first semester of college. I am going to begin at Austin Community College and eventually transfer to the University of Texas. My question is this, of the following bachelor degree majors: Management Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, which would give the best opportunity?
The questions is very open, please give pros and cons of each if possible. But which will land be a job with the best pay/hours, which will leave me in a better position to pursue a Master's degree in the area.
.. this one isn't about the point, I really need some help LOL. I'm very open minded and I'm looking for any suggestions/ comments.
Thank you all Very Much!~
4 Answers
- Doc MartinLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Electrical Engineering has the best career earnings potential, followed closely by Computer Science.
Be aware that the CS degree at UT-Austin is not CAC/ABET-accredited.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
CIS vs CS actually depends on the school. For example, at my school, CIS was the broad degree that everybody graduated with, but within it, it had 3 concentrations: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Information Systems. People who graduated computer science (like me), had to write on our resume that we graduated with a degree in CIS with a concentration in CS. I had every calculus and physics, programming and data structures class just like any typical CS student would have at any other school. What you need to check is the amount of math and what programming classes are in each degree. That determines if it is truly a CS degree or not. Regarding wanting to program but not really use math, it depends on what type of code you want to do outside of school. Typical business programming you don't actually need a CS degree for. You won't use math coding stuff in Java or C#. I can almost promise this. You can safely get any degree computer related (with the exception of hardware IT degrees) and still get paid the same as any junior level CS major. You've just got to make sure you can actually code outside of school. The most math you'd do in a typical business will involve simple division. You would however, be expected to have a certain degree of expertise in structures though. You could pick that up outside of school though. The math and physics from CS are more suited for research, algorithm creation, and game programming fields only. Really, the reason they provide so much math and physics for CS is to teach you logic and prepare you potentially for anything I just listed above.
- 1 decade ago
Computer science: Excellent job market and very good pay, lots of different masters program concentrations you can go into e.g graphics/machine learning/Artificial intelligence. You are almost guaranteed a job with a comp sci degree. Also very interesting and fun career!
- 6 years ago
Electrical engineeeing is harder and doesnt have a better job market than cs. MIS is garbage.
