Thinking about majoring in CIS, any thoughts?

[WillieSacks]

I heard it's the highest paying degree out of college, any thoughts on this? How hard, job market, yadayadayada. Thanks.

 

[LA_Chico]

I majored in communications bro, thats the way to go!

 

[nonchalant]

I majored in computer sci, and am working as a software engineer. I make good money - almost six figures. But if I had to do it again, I would major in something else, possibly business or finance. The job market is too unstable - unless, like me, you have great education and experience. And the work gets really boring. You also have to work with a lot of geeks.

 

[WillieSacks]

Hmm well according to my CIS teacher, he says to major in cis instead of finance or marketing since everyone else is majoring in that and it's more competitive. And why communications. I think I'm gonna minor in that because it seems inteeresting to me but I want to major in something that pays the bills and then some.

 

[DrMetallica]

CIS is a lucrative field, at least for accounting related professions. I can tell you about the accounting side of CIS.

Many of the Big 4 want CIS majors and would kill for an accounting & CIS dual major. These guys usually become systems auditors for public companies and evaluate ERP systems, for example. The standard cert for this is CISA, check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_Information_System_Auditor

Oh, and communications majors are sh!te... i am not allowed to date communications majors any more, those girls are insane !!!

btw anyone notice how communication teachers are all full of themselves and think the communications field is the most important in the world? and assign a large workload because of it? please... the communications school at my university is only set up for kids who couldn't get in to the journalism school.

 

[djbr]

btw anyone notice how communication teachers are all full of themselves and think the communications field is the most important in the world? and assign a large workload because of it? please... the communications school at my university is only set up for kids who couldn't get in to the journalism school.

Seems that they dodged a major bullet here!

 

[nonchalant]

CIS is a lucrative field, at least for accounting related professions. I can tell you about the accounting side of CIS.

Many of the Big 4 want CIS majors and would kill for an accounting & CIS dual major. These guys usually become systems auditors for public companies and evaluate ERP systems, for example. The standard cert for this is CISA, check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_Information_System_Auditor

Oh, and communications majors are sh!te... i am not allowed to date communications majors any more, those girls are insane !!!

btw anyone notice how communication teachers are all full of themselves and think the communications field is the most important in the world? and assign a large workload because of it? please... the communications school at my university is only set up for kids who couldn't get in to the journalism school.

That's cool. I was thinking of obtaining another degree in business, as I think I want to phase into finance.