Database IT Degrees

There are many ways to go about getting an IT degree for the working professional, including attending evening classes at a local university, attending evening and weekend classes at a community college, and doing online coursework through a web-heavy university.

There are far too many universities around the world to go into detail about each school’s professional programs, but every major city has at least one university that caters to the needs of working students. Community colleges are even more focused on providing classes at times when most people are working, but usually, the highest degree they offer is an associate’s degree. In the technology sector, associate’s degrees are not worth much at all, since they rarely require any in-depth study of specific subjects.

Some universities even offer programs specifically designed for work in the IT field. For example, Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus includes the highly ranked and well respected Information Networking Institute¹, which offers two 16-month master’s degree programs in the fields of Information Management and Information Networking. Generally, these types of programs require full-time, on-campus study.

Web universities, like the University of Phoenix, offer a broad range of study programs, and since all the courses take place on the Internet, the student never needs to worry about leaving work early for class. At the time of this writing (2007), the University of Phoenix offers four undergraduate IT degrees in their online program².

• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (Information Systems Security)• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (Multimedia and Visual Communication)• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (Software Engineering)

In addition to those four degrees, they offer a Master of Information Systems (MIS) degree. No doctoral-level technology degrees are offered by the University of Phoenix.

The University of Phoenix also offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in the business and management field.

¹ http://www.ini.cmu.edu/² http://www.phoenix.edu/online_and_campus_programs/online_and_campus_programs.aspx³ http://www.mysql.com/certification/

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