BSBA CIS or BSAST IT

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Regarding CS over IT, I do not agree that it's a better degree. It's only better if you need it. My husband has worked in IT for many years, and a CS degree is totally irrelevant to what he does - it would not get him anything special in his work or industry. A BSAST in IT or BSBA in CIS is all he needs for his work (and even then, he doesn't have either and is doing just fine - but his IT certs have always helped tremendously). It's always important to see what direction you're going in, and then matching the degree to how you want to get where you're going.

I'm reminded of the old Clint Eastwood quote: "Do you feel lucky?" "I don't need any stinking classes or MOOCs on machine learning, linear algebra, cybersecurity, data science, programming in Python, etc..." Sure, you don't need any of those classes to vmotion a VM. But why can't a stinking machine take over your job of vmotioning the VMs?

I have no idea what your husband does, but IMHO there are some areas of IT that are on the decline over the next decade even though IT as a whole is going to grow. IT operations like system admin, network admin, and devops are roles that are on the decline as efficiencies in the job and the move to off-prem cloud accelerates. But moving employment to cloud providers is not the solution. Headcount will still go down as efficiencies improve. The system admin that didn't get on the virtualization bandwagon, doesn't know how to script, or otherwise refuses to learn is probably ancient history already or on the chopping block soon. The network admin that doesn't recognize the threat of SDN will be looking for work in the next decade.

The CS degree allows you to pivot from poor areas in IT to promising areas that will help avoid unemployment like cybersecurity, data science/data analytics, and software development.