<p>intparent:</p>
<p>In my post the term ‘generally’ I used is a key word.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kinds of companies you worked for but I’m referring to the distinction between software development which very often is not a part of the IT group vs application support and infrastructure which is usually a part of the IT group. If you look at most software development companies application development and IT are segregated into separate groups which makes a lot of sense because they’re really two completely different functions.</p>
<p>I think we’re in agreement that there are many variations of the above. Mostly I just wanted to portray to the OP and many others who aren’t knowledgable in this area that the two are different and there can be different paths of entry into the two which means one should consider which particular degree to pursue. I’ve seen a lot of posts on CC where it’s clear that the person posting has no idea and considers CS/software development to be the same as IT. The OP needs to consider what type of work he/she pictures doing to decide which particular major to pursue. So far it looks to be IT.</p>