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I have heard these two terms thrown around by people with the same friends. As much as I’ve heard, computer science is the more mathematically rigorous and its graduates tend to write more code.
What distinguishes an Information Science student from a Computer Science student? What different career paths are available to each?
At my University, IS is housed in the College of Business; and seems to be intended as a Business oriented Software Developer track; teaching people to weigh business concerns with development concerns.
Computer Science (housed in the College of Engineering, which I’m told is unusual) focuses more on how to solve problems; and will generally be much more in depth.
As a better example, at my University, a Computer Science course might have you implement a memory manager in C as part of an operating systems theory class; an IS course might have you implement a simple inventory manager in VB.
And yes, from what I’ve heard, IS is basically CS for Business majors, CS drop outs, and developers with strong math phobia.