Hello everyone!
I will be graduating from a technical college with a B.S in Information Technology with a concentration on Software Engineering, and I am interested in obtaining my masters in Computer Science. When looking online at schools and discussions about computer science, I keep coming up with results talking about how CS programs and software engineering related programs, namely info. tech based ones, are completely different things. I was wondering where people stand on this. My college is regionally accredited(its not ITT or DeVry or anything like that), with a decent hiring rate among graduates. Granted it is a tech school, some of the courses I had taken were things like Calc 1+2, Software Design and Architectures, Design Patterns, Database Design, Systems Analysis and Design, Object Oriented Principles, Software Security as well as many courses about technologies and such. Most of my courses were taught from a design and develop standpoint, meaning it wasnt just “This is Java….you type this to do that” etc, planning and good design was generally a focus. Do you think the difference in education between the programs is that great? Does one produce a better quality employee than the other? Does it matter all that much when getting a job? What does everyone think?