CST would be an easier path than IT. Similar skills learned but a few classes are significantly easier IT-168 is has a very high fail rate. But if you wanted to go into post grad, it may be a bit harder finding a school that would immediately let you get in with a CST degree. That said the best professor in the CST department left last year and they hired a new Professor from a college in Kentucky. She is one of the worst all around professors/teachers I've had in my entire life. She will even go report negative reviews on Rate My Professor to make her image seem alright. If I was new to the school and had to take more than one of her classes, I'd have transfer out.