Computer Science

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Resources, Strengths, Career Paths, Skills

Transferable Skills:Students of Computer Science end their education with superior technical skills, a rare and highly valued commodity in today's job market. Computer Science majors also:

• Have analytical & problem solving skill
• Have abstract and formal reasoning skill
• Identify and rectify problems
• Explain processes
• Perform mathematical analyses
• Describe technical information to layperson's
• Sort and prioritize data

Career Paths: The Major in Computer Science provides students with an optimal platform for entering a variety of fields. Students with a strong technical background are viewed favorably by varying fields. Here are some fields a Computer Science major may pursue:

• Software Development
• Education
• Government Agencies
• Publishing & Media
• Research Organizations
• Technical Institutes
• Business & Finance

Resources & Professional Associations of Interest: Check out the following websites and consider joining at least one of the professional associations in your field of interest to boost your career and give you a competitive edge on the job market. These are just a few so don' t hesitate to do some research on your own!

• Computing Research Association
• American Mathematical Society
• Chronicle of Higher Education , Inside Higher Education - great sites for academics
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Computer Jobs

Employers: The following companies and institutions have hired/accepted Stony Brook students of Computer Science:

• Citigroup
• Lehman Brothers
• Computer Associates
• Symbol Technologies
• Microsoft
• Northrop Grumman
• UBS
• Stony Brook University
• Bloomberg

Sample Job Titles:The following are some sample job titles that would be appropriate for a student who has majored in Computer Science. This is in no way a complete list. If you're surprised at some of these titles, you shouldn't forget that a student who majors in Computer Science gains skills that can be used in many industries!