Associates in Computer ... something?

[SolarKat]

Sanantone was not comparing a TESU degree to a Harvard degree - she was comparing a BS to a BA (which you said was important). She was showing you an example - that many schools do not offer BS's at all, and most employers know this, and so a BA in CS vs. a BS in CS won't be a big deal to most of them. When I worked in HR, we did not care one iota about BA vs. BS. Gave it not a single second of thought.

The point in contention that Harvard does their CS as a BA, too. My point is more the CS part, not the BA part. In this area, everyone knows that Harvard (among other Boston schools) calls their degrees something noteworthy. (AB, btw.) Folks expect the Harvard CS to be rigorous, and so seeing the AB is not the issue. However, the hiring managers for tech around here would look twice at an unknown school with a BA CS. For a general purpose company wanting someone to "do something with computers" it's not a problem. But it's totally not going to fly with the tech companies in the area (AMD, Teradyne, BAE, Raytheon, to name a few). This area knows CS and they expect CS depth of a CS grad.

It's possible that in a different market, tech may be more forgiving of the lightweight CS. Or in business, they may really want an IT person for their software but call it CS. (This happens in data science a LOT. Companies sling the term around without really knowing what data science is, nor what data scientists do. They just think it'd be good to have...something...along the data lines.)