Should I go to Grad School for Accounting or Computer Science?

I graduated college in 2002 with a degree in Economics, and by happenstance, have been working in IT (financial systems) ever since. To further my career, I want to begin graduate school, but I can't decide between an MBA in Accounting and Information Systems or an MS in Computer Science? Can anyone offer me any advice?

Should I go to Grad School for Accounting or Computer Science?
It depends on what you'd prefer to do with your life. Getting a Masters in Computer Science will result in higher paying job offers. However, they will probably database management/networking type jobs, with supervisor duties, and you'd probably be able to go only so high within one company - eventually you'd hit a ceiling where you probably couldn't be promoted further. Getting an MBA preps you for all sorts of different kinds of work, so you'd have way more options waiting for you when you finished, and it would allow you to transfer to more departments within a company, since it's such a versatile degree.





So, to sum up, if you really like IT, and are pretty sure that that's what you want to do the rest of your life, get the Comp Sci degree - it's better preparation for the kind of work you'll be doing. If you're not 100% sure what you want to do yet, go for the MBA.





Good luck!
Reply:Keep the job you have. If you get a degree in Computer science, you will not see a paycheck for a very long time. Nobody is hiring computer people right now. Everything is being done overseas.





Accounting is only slightly better, but not by much. Accountants are even easier to replace than computer people with foreign labor.
Reply:as your subject is accounting you can go for that.as you have work experience you easily manage to get a seat in top universites so opinion about you is to go for accounting.
Reply:COMPUTER SCIENCE. There is a need for tech's! Accountant's just type numbers into a computer. That's why alot of temp agencies are hiring accountants.


A tech can repair/program computer's that accountants use.


I hear going into database management pays well also.

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