An empirical comparison of baccalaureate programs in computing

When a new academic discipline emerges, it is often difficult to distinguish it from the disciplines closely related to it. Information Technology (IT) is just such an emerging discipline. This paper outlines the emergence of the Society for Information Technology Educatioin (SITE), a definition of IT curriculum, and positions IT relative to similar disciplines by empirically comparing it to programs such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, EET/ Telecommunications Engineering Technology, Information Science, and Management Information Systems, at a total of 12 institutions. Index Terms – academic disciplines, computing, curriculum, information technology,