Computing information technology management?! Worth while?

jdman

Just wondering whether to go for software engineering or computer information technology management? Which degree would be easier to get a job with and which would get a job with more money? Thanks.

shepherd

jdman wrote:

Just wondering whether to go for software engineering or computer information technology management? Which degree would be easier to get a job with and which would get a job with more money? Thanks.

Ive done my degree, ive done 4 years as a software engineer, ive done a masters in security and forensics and am about to start a new job as a senior software engineer, and I cant see any situation where information technology management is going to the better option... are you business or are you software devoplement? Nowhere do I see a degree in information technology management a route to a good job. IT management will be only be respected if it is learnt on the job. A degree in it is a road to nowhere... Either go for a business degree or go for a software degree and tend towards project management once you have experience

Overheal

Security and Forensics? do tell

clansman

software engineering... thats were its going....

wheres me jumpa

I graduated from the IT Management stream in December. What you really need to be asking is what you want to do. Everyone from my class is working now. The big plus for it, is the 6 month work experience you get.

I cant comment on the quantity or quality of jobs available for SE grads but that is a very specialised field so you would want to be sure thats what you want to do.

hoganj

Listen dude, you should be asking yourself what area of IT you have more interest in. There are many jobs for both types of graduates.

I prefer coding software rather than managing systems so I took the 4 year software engineering course. It was not an easy course but I had a job lined up before I graduated and I have been in full time employment ever since. Currently working for a top bank in London.

Overheal

or you could take my approach - I find system management to be a morbid hobby so by taking a course in coding and Games development I can be well versed in more fields, practically doubling my job opportunities (but not really as i dont have a systems management degree)

jdman

can you go on and do a masters with a software engineering degree from an Carlow?

Overheal

I've never heard the word 'Masters' flung around the place but in my course I can go for my post-graduate and Doctorate at the ITC... Computer Games no less.... imagine being a PHD in Computer Games!

You can go pretty far at the college though, yeah.