If you intend to live in a small city take an IT degree like Information Science or Information Technology. If you live in a larger city with half decent software companies go with a degree in Software Engineering. Computer Science is deeply theoretical, the type of work you will get after a CS degree will be severely disappointing if you really enjoyed the degree. If you do take a degree in IS or IT and find it morbidly boring, consider a career change or go into academia. You might do a CS degree and get a sweet research job if you are really lucky, but here in Australia your chances are slim.
I live in a small city (by international standards) in Australia. I finished a degree in CS with first class honours nearly two years ago. I had no trouble getting a job (and another after that) which paid great money, but I've been heavily depressed with the lack of challenge in my work and lack of skill in my co-workers (most of whom got an ordinary mark in a CS degree or have one of the afore mentioned IT degrees). The lack of skill means there is no enthusiam to author elegant, well engineered software. As a result I'm trying to get back to uni and continue my research on finding genetic markers for disease in micro-array data. I could move to a bigger city with the possibility of a better job but I don't want to gamble any more years (esp. considering it will take at least 3 to get a PhD).
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If you intend to live in a small city take an IT degree like Information Science or Information Technology. If you live in a larger city with half decent software companies go with a degree in Software Engineering. Computer Science is deeply theoretical, the type of work you will get after a CS degree will be severely disappointing if you really enjoyed the degree. If you do take a degree in IS or IT and find it morbidly boring, consider a career change or go into academia. You might do a CS degree and get a sweet research job if you are really lucky, but here in Australia your chances are slim. I live in a small city (by international standards) in Australia. I finished a degree in CS with first class honours nearly two years ago. I had no trouble getting a job (and another after that) which paid great money, but I've been heavily depressed with the lack of challenge in my work and lack of skill in my co-workers (most of whom got an ordinary mark in a CS degree or have one of the afore mentioned IT degrees). The lack of skill means there is no enthusiam to author elegant, well engineered software. As a result I'm trying to get back to uni and continue my research on finding genetic markers for disease in micro-array data. I could move to a bigger city with the possibility of a better job but I don't want to gamble any more years (esp. considering it will take at least 3 to get a PhD).