I am planning on starting college (community college) this fall, and getting my associates degree in IT. I am 22, and sick of my current life status...so I am finally going for what I've wanted to do since I was a young kid, but never got around to doing it (for whatever reason).
I have to decide between these two degrees, both have pretty much the same general education stuff, the difference is in the actual IT stuff:
IT degree:
Microcomputer Application Software
Intro. to Information Technology
Microcomputer Hardware
Operating Systems
Database Applications
Networking Essentials
Accounting I
Intro. to the Internet (or) Web Site Design and Scripting (or) Web Authoring and Graphic Tools
Visual Basic Programming
First Level Programming Course**
Systems Analysis
Advanced IT elective***
IT Cooperative Work Experience (or) Business elective
And this is the IT degree, Network Administration Concentration
Microcomputer Application Software
Intro. to Information Technology
Microcomputer Hardware
Database Applications
Operating Systems
Networking Essentials
Accounting I
Visual Basic Programming
Windows NT Workstation (or) Windows 2000 Professional Administration
Systems Analysis
Windows NT Server Administration (or) Windows 2000 Server Administration
Network Management for Windows
IT Cooperative Work Experience (or) Business elective
My goal is to someday become an network admin, engineer, something along the line of that. I dont have plans to become a programmer or a software developer...but you never know. I have tried learning programming a few times, and I always never got past the basics, mostly because of boredom, or some other reason.
Do you think the Network Administraton degree would limit me in anyway? I understand experience gets the job, not degrees, but I have no professional experience to speak of, so I feel I need all the help I can get. (and I do plan on getting come certs eventually).
I have to decide between these two degrees, both have pretty much the same general education stuff, the difference is in the actual IT stuff:
IT degree:
Microcomputer Application Software
Intro. to Information Technology
Microcomputer Hardware
Operating Systems
Database Applications
Networking Essentials
Accounting I
Intro. to the Internet (or) Web Site Design and Scripting (or) Web Authoring and Graphic Tools
Visual Basic Programming
First Level Programming Course**
Systems Analysis
Advanced IT elective***
IT Cooperative Work Experience (or) Business elective
And this is the IT degree, Network Administration Concentration
Microcomputer Application Software
Intro. to Information Technology
Microcomputer Hardware
Database Applications
Operating Systems
Networking Essentials
Accounting I
Visual Basic Programming
Windows NT Workstation (or) Windows 2000 Professional Administration
Systems Analysis
Windows NT Server Administration (or) Windows 2000 Server Administration
Network Management for Windows
IT Cooperative Work Experience (or) Business elective
My goal is to someday become an network admin, engineer, something along the line of that. I dont have plans to become a programmer or a software developer...but you never know. I have tried learning programming a few times, and I always never got past the basics, mostly because of boredom, or some other reason.
Do you think the Network Administraton degree would limit me in anyway? I understand experience gets the job, not degrees, but I have no professional experience to speak of, so I feel I need all the help I can get. (and I do plan on getting come certs eventually).