NYU - Stern Information Systems vs. Computer Science
Hi all,
I'm a freshman studying computer science at NYU. I'm trying to decide which major/minor would look best to maximize my employment possibilities coming out of NYU.
I hope to one day land a job in wall street or in the tech industry as a tech manager.
So, I originally planned to major in computer science in order to later get my masters in business administration. However, I recently discovered that Stern offers a business major with an information systems concentration. So, which do you see as a better route if I do not want to be a programmer for the rest of my life?
NYU College of Arts and Sciences Computer Science degree with an MBA
or
NYU Stern business with Information Systems and an MBA (I am struggling to decide because of the prestige of Stern degrees compared to other degrees)
Can anybody in a related field or with experience in wall street share some insight?
Minors don't count for anything
Info Sys is seen as a little soft in the tech industry so I would do Finance and Comp Sci double major and use electives to take any Info Sys classes you may be interested
If heading to finance industry neither Info Sys nor Comp Sci would matter as long as you have the finance / accounting knowledge and a finance major from Stern should more than enough equip you for that and can use one of the other minor/majors as a way to display interest in tech groups within finance
Which would be more useful in IB: Managment Information Systems or Computer Science? (Originally Posted: 08/05/2012)
I have the opportunity to minor in Management Information Systems or get a Computer Science Certificate, but I can only take one and unfortunately I find both subject matters very interesting. Both would be taking the same time committment (both need 12 hours each respectively to get the minor and certificate). I was wondering which would be more useful when it came to IB?
Neither. IB has no correlation with computer science. Besides writing some VBA for excel, there's nothing it'd be used for. And I don't really know anything about management info systems, but pretty sure that's just server/databases...equally useless.
Also, all computer science "certificates" are worthless. Unless it's an actual minor and you mislabeled it or your school calls it a certificate I would advise against it.
1) Pretend like you signed up for all the MIS classes you would be taking if you did the minor 2) Spend a little cash on the ib interview guides, financial modeling self study course, etc (they are worth it) 3) During these "class times" work on everything from #2 along with coming up with a networking and recruiting game plan if you don't already have one
This is what I would suggest, ASSUMING you are actually interested in pursuing IBD. But if you have a genuine interest in CS/MIS then thats a different story and you may want to pursue one of those options.
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