So my current situation is that I have just completed the first year of a Bachelor of Information Science at Massey University with A+s in the CS/IT papers. However I am not sure what to do from here as I do not see myself as a programmer in 5 years time. Considering IT is so broad I've been looking around recently and network engineering seems enticing after reading up on it at the careers.govt site. I've signed up for a couple of network courses on Coursera and Stanford to get a proper taster which start next week

As it stands, Massey only has three network related papers across 2nd and 3rd years and I question if they would really be enough to land a job, especially considering I wouldn't have any industry certs from Cisco/MS

More to the point, should I stay with Massey and complete the degree, gaining skills over several IT areas before finding an entry level job and specializing further or jump across to somewhere like AMES and do some certifications and going straight into the workforce?

Other titles that look interesting are procurement manager and business analyst

If you have anything to add it would be greatly appreciated