Sunday, August 2, 2009

What makes more money: a computer science degree or a computer engineering degree?

I really hope someone knows the answer to this question~! Thanks everyone!

What makes more money: a computer science degree or a computer engineering degree?
actually it depends on you and your experience.





It's about working for the "right" companies





See they pay you to come to a competitor so you can teach them new ways





A friend of mine with a Liberal Arts BA from Oxford and 1 year computer programming training at a Comunity College went to work for a bank ($25K) programming for 5 years, then worked for a software book publisher, went back to the bank ($32K) for another 4 years, went to Norton ($45K) where he spent is first 6 months reading tons of documentation on Windows.





After 8 years with Norton he was making $75K and got bought away by another company for $100K and NORTON was willing to meet the offer.





Last word I heard was he was making $150K





This is with a liberal Arts BA 1 year computer work at a Junior College and 12 years work experience.





If yur not a mover and shaker you'll stay at a local company for $50K and get $1k a year raises
Reply:Depends on the individual content of the course, but it's probably not a significant amount of difference. More people are familiar with "Computer Science" then "Computer Engineering", so perhaps Computer Science has slightly beeter name value.
Reply:My hunch would be a computer engineering degree, but go to www.salary.com and you can check different wages for industries and areas of the country.


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