Ucc open Day

Alan Smith

I went today.

I previously had no interest in any of the courses in the college but wnet with my friends for a lok.

What I saw there today was very impressive.
I am now very interested in BIS. A combination of buisness and IT Perfect.

Anyway just like to say I am very impressed with the college

Rozie

Alan Smith wrote:

I went today.

I previously had no interest in any of the courses in the college but wnet with my friends for a lok.

What I saw there today was very impressive.
I am now very interested in BIS. A combination of buisness and IT Perfect.

Anyway just like to say I am very impressed with the college

It's a great college alright Like a proper college and not the ITs-pretending-to-be-colleges a lot of Irish colleges are.

garykeane121

Ya BIS seemed a really good course.

I went 2 the open day pretty sure I was gonna do accounting now I'm thinking of BIS, Finance or Accounting

Alan Smith

garykeane121 wrote:

Ya BIS seemed a really good course.

I went 2 the open day pretty sure I was gonna do accounting now I'm thinking of BIS, Finance or Accounting

I thought that they were trying to push it alot though.
A stand in the aula maxima, fellas handing out information on every pathway in the grounds and another stand in the o'Rahilly building

dcarroll

its the same as that for bis every year, last year they had a draw for a free ipod if u went in to look at the course

analyse this

Fu** i cnt believe i missed the open day!! my career guidance teacher said it was on in december. im gonna fire her ass!!:mad:

AdMMM

I'll most likely go for BIS come February. Was very impressed by it and the whole campus offering. I thought they made a big effort in trying drive interest to it. Plenty of posters all around the college advertising it and I really appreciated them having the 4th years there who seemed to be enjoying the course.

I think UCC are definitely persuing the right idea with regard to having the open day on a Saturday. It doesn't detract from the weekday running of the college and ensure that the prospective students aren't jostling with the thousands of students rushing here and there for lectures. And of course it means that only those who are genuinely interested in the college will attend.

Alan Smith

Yup they had a draw for a video ipod again this year

analysethis -There is another one in april.

I agree with Murderer about the saturday thing.

garykeane121

Is BIS as good a course as they made out or was it totally over hyped.

exiot

Missed the open day last year, first year in UCC - best choice I have ever made.

D-Generate

Ah BIS, the department that thinks its a faculty. With the restructuring of UCC in to 5 colleges it will probably try to be a college too!
I don't know much about the course to be honest other than that they are quite full of themselves and really hype themselves up as some of you might have already seen by all the freebies they hand out at the open days. Rulers, pens, pencils and an iPod. How educational!
Only other thing I know is that those comp sci folk laugh at what the BIS people call programming.

dotsman

Graduated from BIS 2 years ago. Best degree ever (for me anyway!).

If you have a decent interest in IT, you should consider it. If you have studied business subjects in school and are good at maths, all the better - but not essential.

The hours are easy. I remember having most Fridays off (after first year anyway) There's only 12 hours of lectures a week, about the same in tutorials in first year but drop down to 3-4 by final year(never really went to them anyway. The workload doesn't really get heavy until 3rd year and is mainly project work.

The 6 months in the States (not guaranteed, but most in the class get to go, a few are in london or dublin/cork) during 3rd year was the best 6 months of my life (and pratically everyone in my class). Was living with my buddies, just 10 minutes from Times Square and working for a global company for $1000 a week (a lot of money for a bum-ass student:) ) + overtime and a week-long business trip to Puerto Rico (limo's everywhere, fly first class, 5 star hotel/casino and all food/drink etc paid for me for the week:D ).

Very few in my class ended up as programmers (I'm one of the few!). Most get jobs as Systems Analysts (the main focus of BIS) or as accountants (turns out they didn't like IT). Most of my class had jobs secured before graduating, primarily in the states, london or Ireland. A decent size went on to Postgrad (in either IT or busines). Can't think of anyone from my class who didn't have a job or postgrad lined up by the time we graduated.

The best thing I can say about BIS is that it's a fun degree (really tight class) with amazing job oppurtunities, and because of its diversity is perfect for those who are unsure between going down the road of IT or business.