Technical IT Skills: State College

One way to get credential in our society is to get some sort of degree, such as a undergraduate degree from a CSU (CalState University).  You can gain a lot of important basic business skills in areas of accounting, finance, economics, statistics, marketing, international business, and information systems.  I think to run your own business or to step into management in IT, these essential business skills are definitely required.

But for gaining hands on skills, I have to question whether you can learn this from the state college,  at least in the exposure I have gained from Information Systems courses at SFSU (San Francisco State University).   You'll get some exposure to programming, database, and networking, but this alone will not be enough to gain employment where you'll have to implement, maintain, and manage information systems.

To gain the hard skills (technical skills), you'll have to find a way to learn this on your own.  You can learn particular systems from community colleges or extension courses, but not at state.  And in any of those programs, you still are required to do a lot of analysis and research on your own outside of any course or training program.  Thankfully, through a well rounded education, you should have the required analytical, objective, and research skills, to gain more out of any program.