Hi all, im a newbee on this site and need some advice on my career planning. I got recently laid off and planning to go back to school in IT. I finished my A.S. Degree in Electronics few years ago, and now has a limited time and financial budget for schooling. My passion with networking encourage me to obtain a marketable bachelor degree in IT. Based on my research about what programs to take, school and job availability, confused me to finalized my decision. There is a program available in my area which is the BS in CIS that would take me almost 4years. The program advisor advised me that based on financial budget and time, It would be faster for me to go for the BA in Computer Science (3years including some of my AS credits). I have looked the courses both BSCIS and BACS, and the CIS is what interest most. I was wondering if I could pull some student loan would be worth it in terms of getting an IT job? Would it be easier to get an IT if you have BS than BA?
I know there are lots of IT employers here that can give me a good advise to where to start.
In addition, the BS in CIS does not have a servers and network administration courses, but it does have some database management, database programming and networking programming.
My last route would be obtaining some sort of certs since I am interested in networking or in technical support/ admin. Would this be a good idea? or the BS would be better start?
Any advice will be appreciated.