hi all,I am on a 1 yr placement atm and will have big tech blue chip company internship and goldman sachs summer internship on my cv when I graduate.. next yr will be my final year of a Computer Science degree and I m on a 1st class average atm at a top15 uniI'm very interested in management consultancy, and its not bcos of the salary (I can make the same amount of £ doing tech at Goldman).. I'm genuinely interested in a less technical and more business focused role.. However I have had a very negative outlook of MC from these forums.. especially at MBBB which seem to be populated by elitist Oxbridge grads and a v cutthroat environmentMy question is : will I be satisfied, considering i want something intellectually challenging and business focues, if I take a consultancy (non IT) role at one of the big4 auditing companies or ACN? Is there anything else apart from MC that I could go into considering my computing degree?cheers

You could join the Civil Service on the IT Fast Stream, or start your own business.

You could go back and get a degree in a real subject.

Learn to Teach.

"You could go back and get a degree in a real subject."I suspect you didn't programme at university. It's far more difficult than Porter's 5 forces.

"You could go back and get a degree in a real subject"Really interested to see wha do you count as a real subject. Humanities perhaps?The 3rd best university in UK is solely doing "unreal degrees"

I suspect that anon doesn't know squad about it, but Computer Science as taken at a good uni is a very serious degree on a par with engineering, maths and that hard sciences.

Does it involve dossing about with PHP and mysql databases all day long?

No, actually it does not if you do it in a good university. You still have not given us your term of a real subject.Yes, Science degrees, engineering and computer science are considered real degrees in the real world. I have done one of them in Imperial (i think it counts as a "real" uni). Where have you studied your "real" degree anon?

Not really no. Computer science is not software engineering!Computer science involves the study of topics such as formal logic, lambda calculus, information theory, complexity theory, graph theory, number theory, algorithms, and numerical and symbolic computation.EC

Confused.com it seems a shame to waste such a good start in terms of experience and degree result by breaking away from IT; despite what often gets said on this forum, there are some very good career paths within IT consulting. How about looking to the new generation of high tech companies with a strong consumer focus - fascinating stuff I think, to be looking at B2C technology rather than say ERP. Google and suchlike, telco operators, even start-ups developing market disruptive applications? Evil C - rise above the bear baiting!