Whats the difference between CS and IT?

Question

Whats the difference between Computer Science Engineering(CSE) and Information Technology(IT)?

Answer 1

Computer Science is an academic field that studies the theoretical foundations of computing (algorithms, data structures) and the practical implications of those theories (programming languages, compilers, hardware etc.).

IT is a term used to refer to the technology, and the departments in businesses which manage those resources.

Practically, this means if you are doing a CS course, you study the theory behind programming computers and other systems; if you are doing an IT course, you learn about using and administering computers.

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Answer 2

CS is theory, IT is practical

CS does not mean you can work in IT of course...

Answer 3

I am doing my engineering in IT itself. In our university, frankly speaking, the coursework of CS and IT differed by only 1 or 2 subjects at the most in any semester, although in the final 2 semesters, the difference becomes quite obvious as they get to study more advanced subjects like Advanced Computer Architecture, Digital Image Processing, etc. and the IT guys have to study subjects like IT Infrastructure, Information Systems, etc.

Apart from that some of the main CS subjects that we do not get to study are Compiler Designing, Principles of Programming Lanuguages, Computer Graphics, but we do study Automata and Theory of COmputation, Data Structures and Algorithms, Cryptography. So its kind of a mix bag for us, partially IT and partially CS.

But this answer was centric to my University, things might be different in yours.

In general I agree with Tom's answer, his answer tells the right difference between IT and CS.