CCNA/Netadmin

You'll get nothing in the routing field without experience.

A BS is also not important.

You will need to find a job that will enable you to gradually increase your Network Engineering skills with gradual experience, while working with thing you already know..Good luck.

The degree that you chosse is totally upto you. I'm the network manager of a company (Microsoft and Novell qualified and authorised to deliver training). Nobody cares WHAT my degree is in (bizarely it's in Chemical Engineering which gives me something else to talk about at interviews but nothing else).

I work in the UK job market and to be honest IT Degrees are frowned upon, (they don't count against you, but neither do they count for you) basically as they are flawed by teaching old concepts in a fast moving environment.

You will not stand any chance of getting a good starting career without any practical experience. Your CCNA will say to a prospective employer - and I know exactly how this works being one of these people - that heknows something about routing, further study of your CV will show that you may or not have any experience of CISCO routers, if you haven't then your application will go no further.

Once you graduate then the opportunites available to you are almost endless. You could become a Network Admin in a larger firm, look to be a Network Manager in a smallish firm of join a 2nd/3rd line support environment - extreemly useful for filling in the gaps that theoretical training leaves.

I more or less agree with the other 2. Routing experience is so highly sought after, I would forget the degree and concentrate on getting the highest level of Cisco qualification that you can manage/afford.
If you have the time and money, try for a CNA and one NT test to become a MCP