Among computer science and I.T. which branch has better scope and placement oppurtunities.?

Answer 1

Computer Science (CS) tends to be specialized in the science, design and construction of computer models, operation systems and or software and peripherals. It is like product design

IT tends to be the care and sustainance of computer system in ANY businesss. There is much more work in this field, although CS may be more interesting and higher paid in some cases.

Research the want ads for each.

Answer 2

Comp Sci is probably more on the hardware development side and programing, where IT is on the implementation side. Considering the number of programmers overseas at this time where the cost of living is a fraction of the US, the job market with the high pay levels for such professionals is going to be shrinking in the years to come. IT usually requires you to start off with more scud work, but as you become more proficient, you have a number of applications to go into. I'd probably say IT for that reason. People may need on-site work, so they can't outsource it so readily.

Answer 3

going for software jobs after ur course completion ?

all they need is a person who can solve the given aptitude problems withing 30 to 45 minutes and ofcourse to write a program within minutes. do not be particular abt the subject. even mechanical people work in software jobs.But people from the industry expect something more when u are a computer science or IT student and they dont expect anything from other branch people except their analysing skills

hardware jobs? then it should be computer science.

Answer 4

Hi Chikni (really?),
It totally depends on what you want to do further in your career. In most of the syllabus the course contents of IT and CS are almost getting similar. My suggestion would be to evaluate your goals and interests and compare the syllabus of IT and CS that is being offered by the college you are planning to join.

CS is mostly associated with the basic or core fundamentals of Computer technology whereas IT is at a higher level and gives you exposure of latest technology trends.

Answer 5

IT is more the Business side of the computer, where as CS is more hardware oriented. CS would typically lead to Server/PC administration, whereas IT typically leads to Application development and programming, etc. They are fully interchangeable tho.

Answer 6

you're taking mechanical engineering. the companies now a days choose females additionally. yet there will be only one subject for you and that's - the no. of boys would be extra in mechanical engineering in assessment to cs. i'm hoping it won't in any respect be a subject for you. And who instructed you there is no scope for Mechanical Engineering? Its in basic terms a hearsay. interior the present subject electric powered, Mechanical & Civil have an excellent scope.

Answer 7

Computer science is best at present.My son has joined in that course last month.Good luck

Answer 8

Not one of those. Computers are getting so simple, best buy has people who fix them now.

Answer 9

Outsourcing and H1 Visas have killed IT in the US. There is a huge surplus of IT workers, many of which have moved out of the IT field over the last several years. The fields that are most in demand are web developers and networking. It is hard to outsource networking so it's still around and there is so much web work being done that even outsourcing cannot keep up for now. This is also changing as PHP has developed into a RAD tool. You can develop proffesional full featured, high performance and reliable web applications writing very litte actual code today. PHP's object structure and large base of users contributing code has created some very complex and robust systems. In hours you can develop a whole web site if you have enough experience with the tools. As more sites dump .net and Java in favor of PHP the demand for web developers will decrease. .net and Java are both very man hour intensive and expensive technologies.

DBAs will still be needed to an extent though outsourcing has hurt this field a great deal as well.

Network security is the only IT field that is actually expanding. Experience is very necessary. The compitition in this field is intense. Many displaced network engineers and programmers are trying to move into Network Security.

Overall I'd say pick a whole different field. Unless you just love computers. Unless the first thing you do when you get up is sit down at a computer, the first thing you do when you get home is race to the computer, forget it. The money isn't there any more. You have zero job security, pressure is high, hours can be very long and in the end your job too will be elimanated.

If you do continue into IT Java programming is the most lucritive that is in high demand. Network engineers are a dime a dozen but it'st through that which you can get into Network security. The problem is that the field is static and about to fill up. So demand will slacken soon in that area. Outsourcing will catch up with it as well. AI is still a very limited but lucritive field. One which even American's will still be strong in for some time to come.

No matter what you do, some must learn technologies include PHP, SQL, basic HTML, XML, know at least a couple programming languages. At least one C based programming language among those. Know networking protocols. Learn how to configure routers and switches. Best to know both Linux and Windoze. They are going to be part of your environment in almost all jobs over the next few years. Do not rely on a school to teach you anything. They teach yesterday's technology and a crucial part of being successfull in IT is the abilty to learn independently. In IT you never quit learning. Things change and sometimes very rapidly. You will constantly need to learn new technologies and tools. Pass your courses and if your lucky you might get a Prof with actual IT experience and something interesting to add. What you learn doing real projects however will be invaluable. Do an internship if you can for expeirence. Do IT work for anybody willing to allow you to do it for them. You NEED experience. That little peice of paper won't mean jack and without a degree nowdays your going nowhere in IT. That is a recent change, until just a few years ago a degree was nice to have. A tiny percentage of companies required it or docked your pay for not having one. Today there is such a surplus of IT workers that not having a degree is almost fatal to your career in IT. Degree without experience is worse than experience without a degree. Again there are so many people with experience and a degree that you are not even going to get a glance without experience. The way to get expeirence is to work for free. Get good at what you are doing and you'll find paying work which will start to build your experience and possibly even get you hired on somewhere. Do it WHILE you are still in school. Give up life as you know it. You are entering one of the most competitive fields in the nation if you go into IT right now. So you need to prepare. Need to do well in school and spend your free time learning the trade and gaining experience. You also need a source of funding for hardware. If you own less than 3 computers that's too few. You need to build a network, have at least Linux and Windoze running. Having PC based Solaris and a Mac would be a big benifit. You need to have a DB set up such as the free version of Oracle. MySQL at a min. Preferably both. You need to set up Apache. Get comfortable using PHP, Java, HTML. Runing an internal web site. If networking is your thing you need to set up all kinds of stuff just to learn how to do it. If it's programmign learn how to do distributed programming. Setup at least two of your lInux boxes as a cluster and learn how to write programs for clustered environments. Build a SAN and maintain it as network engineer or write SAN programs as a programmer. Doing stuff will teach you. You can read all day long, but until you've done it, and learned all the gothchas and undocumented issues you don't know squat.

Basically for the next 4-5 years you have 3 full time jobs. One as a student. One building your own network and finding ways to pay for all that hardware. The software will be free. Either open source or student discounts or pirate. The hardware you can scrounge in pawn shops, garage sales, building white boxes. You can for less than $5,000 build a 10 computer network just using white boxes. The machines will include 64 bit machines and other machines capable of runnign high end software for that price. Put away the video games, the parties, everything else. To succeed you have to compete with people who've been doing IT for 10 years or more. You need to shine above all those other thousands fo fresh IT graduates looking for ANY paying job in IT.

Don't take a tech support job. They kill your career. You get locked in support after that. Very hard to break out of that.

As for advancement. Most IT is a dead end field. You can move up to a big company and be in charge of other programmers, DBAs, etc. Project management is a possibility though companies for some reason tend to pick biz majors for that. Has led to some huge wastes of money in IT. CIOs unfortunately same thing. Again the US economy wastes %75 of it's IT budgets because so few CIOs have a clue about technology. They read flashy magazines, attend conferences and think they know something. Then they race back to thier company and invest heavily in vaporware any techie could have told you wouldn't work. They force techies to work with poor and inferior technologies and otherwise greatly hinder IT projects. They buy flashy hardware that is often nothing but flash and glitz. They are scared so they buy lower quality but well known brands. Compaq as a brand exists purely from name recognition and flashy advertising that convinced CIOs to buy thier garbage products for example. No techie would buy a Compaq. Just takes one experience with them to know better.

Good luck with things.

Answer 10

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