About the Golisano College's Academic Programs
Degree Offerings: BS, MS and BS/MS
GCCIS offers three related but distinct programs centered around computers and computation. We recommend that you carefully look at each program's web site to see their extent and emphasis. However, to help you get started, we offer the following quick guide:
| If you want to: | Then first consider: |
| Be the "user's advocate," including networking, technology integration and deployment and other areas such as web development | Information Technology |
| Apply engineering concepts, techniques, and methods, particularly design and process methodology to the development of software systems. | Software Engineering |
| Be a software inventor -- understand the process used to build, extend, and maintain software as well as general design principles. | Computer Science |
| Be designers, implementers, and operators of computing networks and networked systems (both clients and servers). | Networking, Security, and Systems Administration |
