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Computer and Information Technology Occupations
See the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for Computer and Information Technology Occupations. Browse through Computer and IT occupations that include job summaries, required education and expected income. Below are just a few:
- Computer Network Architects, median pay $91,000
- Database Administrators, median pay $71,080
- Software Developers, median pay $93,350
- Web Developers, median pay $62,600
What's the difference between Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) degrees?
See GVSU's Computing and Information Systems (CIS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). A bried excerpt is below:
Computer Scientists primarily deal with the "low-level" workings of the hardware and software. Computer Scientists worry about things like hardware register usage, efficient algorithms, novel data structures, and transmission of bits and bytes over a network. Information Systems professionals are more concerned with using computers to solve problems at a higher level of abstraction. They solve problems like, "I'll let the CS guys handle the technical details, I just want to put together a payroll system for a major corporation."
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