Which is a better course to pursue among BCA and B.Sc in IT?

The demand of IT professionals is increasing not only in India but also abroad. After the completion of the course, the student can find a job in reputed IT companies like IBM, Oracle, Infosys, and Google. The student can work as a system engineer, junior programmer, web developer or as a system administrator. This field provides you ample opportunities to make your career not only in private sector but also in the public sector. The government organisation like NIC, Indian Army, Indian Air Force and India Navy also recruit large number of computer professionals for their IT department. B.Sc. Computer Science is more concept-oriented while BCA is application-oriented. BCA course will teach you about current technologies and applications, and gives you a basic idea of currently used programming languages. But BCA course will not provide you with an in-depth conceptual understanding. B.Sc. Computer Science is more concept-oriented. This course will not give much importance to current technologies and applications. Candidates who studied Arts, Commerce or Science can join for BCA since it is application-oriented. But in order to study B.Sc. Computer Science, an intermediate Certificate with mathematics is mandatory. You have to decide which course to purse based on your interest. List of some of the Top and best private colleges in India are the following LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore Manipal Institute of Technology SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai Dayanand Sagar college of engineering, Bangalore Geeta University, Panipat, RV college of engineering, Bangalore BMS college of engineering, Bangalore.

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In terms of salary just after B.Sc, they are almost equivalent. But in my opinion, BCA definitely has the edge because of wider range of opportunities and job available. With BCA you can also enter into the highly lucrative area of Data Mining (salaries in crores if you go abroad). you can go for higher education M.Sc Ph.D. IT graduates also earn a lot (similar to BCA) but the problem is many Indian universities don't take IT degree for higher education. Research fields are limited (they are wide of course but I am talking wrt BCA). Also, thanks to the stigma attached to technical degrees IT B.Tech are more preferred vis a vis IT B.Sc (same is the case with BCA but atleast you can go for M.Tech and make up for that if that causes problem). In the end, its your choice. Hardwork and determination can take you to the moon even if you come with an obscure degree like B.Tech in food storage. What I said above was keeping in mind the general trend (the averages). But exceptions are always there.

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