What is the difference between Computer Science and Information Technology degrees?
G’day, I’ve studied Bachelor of Business (Management Information System) in an Australian uni and after helping many students with similar inquiries, this is what I can tell you hopefully in plain English (and also summarising what the previous answerers told you): Comp Science is usually part of Faculty of Science. Therefore it is very technical. You will learn ‘machine languages’. You are the programmer, the one creating the programs eg. games, word processing, spreadsheets etc. So Math and theory… definitely a must in this course. Info Tech is sometimes called business computing. You are the middle person between the Comp Science ppl, who only know abt computer and programs, and a businessppl, who know only abt business, but little computer. You will learn both aspects of the world, so in most cases you will learn programming, and also some business studies (maybe as electives). You will also learn how to determine the flow of information. This is crucial to know, b’cos if a busin
