Ask A Scientist© Computer Science Archive

Index Key:   COM012
Author:      young
Subject:     Computer Science and careers.
If I major in Computer Science, then what kind of jobs can I get?  What kind
of things they study?

Response #:  1 of 1
Author:      asmith

In computer science people study just about anything related to computers!
Computer science departments often tend to be somewhat mathematically
oriented, or in other ways distanced from the real world of programming
though (you certainly have to do lots of programming to get a degree, but
they tend to make you program whole operating systems or compilers rather
than something that actually computes something, or runs a database, or
whatever).  But in principle, you should be ready for just about any
computer-related job if you get a computer science degree, and there are
lots of such jobs around (though jobs for older programmers seem to have
been cut somewhat recently, with defense program cutbacks etc.) Just keep
your options open, and try to find out more specifically what kind of job
you would really like doing, long before you graduate, and prepare yourself
accordingly.