ENGINEERING & INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY PATHWAY COMPUTER SCIENCE CAREER PASSPORT
RELATED JOB TITLES			SCHOOL-TO-CAREER CONNECTIONS
List of job/career opportunities related to Career Passport based on 2002-2012 labor market statistics.	Programmer	Technical Writer
	Software Developer	Software Systems Engineer	BEST - Robotics	Industry Tour	Paid or Unpaid Internship
	Software Engineer	Systems Administrator	COOL Week	Job Shadow	Informational Interview
	Technical Architect		Senior Project	Key Club
	Application Developer			Service Learning Project
CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS		ASSOCIATE DEGREES		BACHELOR DEGREES
List of programs, locations, web info, and related certification programs.		List of colleges with locations and web info, and related associate degree programs.		List of colleges with locations and web info. and related bachelor degree programs.
Note: Certifications in programming careers can sometimes be helpful, but are expensive and can quickly become obsolete.  However, if you have no degree or only an associates degree, they can help you get your foot in the door to land that first job.  In this industry, experience is much more important than certifications.				Note: Many schools offer degrees in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering.  CS degrees tend to focus more on software, while CE degrees focus more on hardware and programming of hardware.
		Austin Community College
		http://www.austincc.edu/
		Computer Programming
		Computer Science		The University of Texas at Austin
				http://www.utexas.edu/
CompTIA Certifications
http://www.comptia.org/				Texas A & M University
A+				http://www.tamu.edu/
Network+
Security+				Southwestern University - Georgetown
Linux+				http://www.southwestern.edu/
Vendor Certifications				Texas Tech University
MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer				http://www.ttu.edu/
MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.asp				Texas State University - San Marcos
				http://www.txstate.edu/
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le0/learning_certification_level_home.html
				Nationally-Recognized Computer Science Schools
SCJP - Sun Certified Java Programmer				Stanford University
http://www.sun.com/training/certification/java/java_progj2se.html				MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
				University of California - Berkeley
CIW - Certified Internet Webmaster				Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
http://www.ciwcertified.com/				Cornell University
				Brown University
LPI - Linux Professional Institute				Rice University
http://www.lpi.org/				University of Chicago
				University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (UNC)