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If you choose a computing major, what career options are open to you? We have provided information for each of the majors listed here:

• Computer Engineering
  Typically involves software and hardware and the development of systems that involve software, hardware, and communications.




• Computer Science
  Currently the most popular of the computing disciplines; tends to be relatively broad and with an emphasis on the underlying science aspects.




• Information Systems
  Essentially, this is computing in an organizational context, typically in businesses.




• Information Technology
  Focuses on computing infrastructure and needs of individual users; tends to involve a study of systems (perhaps just software systems, but perhaps also systems in support of learning, of information dissemination, etc.).




• Software Engineering
  Focuses on large-scale software systems; employs certain ideas from the world of engineering in building reliable software systems.




• Mixed Disciplinary Majors