I'm a Senior at the University of Illinois on Computer Engineering (focusing on CS/software though) and after getting a job for this next summer, I have noticed that CIS/MIS/?IS majors tended to go to big five consulting firms (AA, AC, PWC, D&T, Cap Gemini/E&Y) and that is the group that the big five focuses on. After getting offers from 2 big 5 firms (in chicago) and talking to friends who got offers, they are substatially lower (around $50-55K) than other offers that weren't Business consulting related. The lowest offer I got from a non big five firm was 60K with the average being 65K and the high being about 75K+ (it was an hourly job). All these offers were in chicago. So if you are talking about money, there you go. I also notice that most MIS/CIS people don't want to code but just want to work with technology. A final note though, the communication/people and group project skills were much better with the CIS rather than the CS people.
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I'm a Senior at the University of Illinois on Computer Engineering (focusing on CS/software though) and after getting a job for this next summer, I have noticed that CIS/MIS/?IS majors tended to go to big five consulting firms (AA, AC, PWC, D&T, Cap Gemini/E&Y) and that is the group that the big five focuses on. After getting offers from 2 big 5 firms (in chicago) and talking to friends who got offers, they are substatially lower (around $50-55K) than other offers that weren't Business consulting related. The lowest offer I got from a non big five firm was 60K with the average being 65K and the high being about 75K+ (it was an hourly job). All these offers were in chicago. So if you are talking about money, there you go. I also notice that most MIS/CIS people don't want to code but just want to work with technology. A final note though, the communication/people and group project skills were much better with the CIS rather than the CS people.