<p>What turbo said about local employers. Also, as we keep having to mention, CIS doesn’t always stand for the same thing at all schools. (I just typed “school” with a k, what’s that all about?) At my school CIS <em>is</em> the CS degree, it has all of the theory, the language stuff, Turing machines, lambda calculus, computer organization, OSes, graph theory, etc. as well as practical software courses.</p>