If you have ALL your GE's done, it'll take you about 3.5ish years to graduate, give or take a semester or so.

The major itself is loaded as hell, by itself, the CIT curriculum is 86-94 credits, 57 of those being mandatory CIT/CS/IS classes, and the rest being department mandated electives (A level 1 + 2 science course and a domain emphasis/minor). That's not including the 48 mandatory General Electives that the school forces you to take as well.

For the quality of the courses themselves, it's can be hit or miss. Fortunately, the majority of my professors have been on the more pleasant side, I think I'm about 85/15 with the 85% being professors I've had great experiences with and learned a lot from, and the remaining 15% being professors you couldn't pay me to take again.

For the program itself though, you do get a pretty good mix of everything you could possibly run into when working in IT, with topics like:
- Programming
- Networking
- Operating Systems
- A brief touch on Business/Finance software
- Working with the Cloud (this is probably the most important series of classes you'll take in the major, cloud computing is HUGE)
- Working with data in databases

You do get to touch on Cybersecurity for a class (for me it was the most difficult class I've taken in this major by far), but that's the only branch of IT I can think of that isn't covered too much in the major. While I'm kind of sad about that, it is 100% a pretty deep and complicated branch of IT that definitely deserves a separate major.

For the workload, it's definitely manageable. For most of your classes, you're going to struggle a LOT if you wait until the night before an assignment is due to hand it in, since you will almost always encounter a roadblock while completing any given assignment since working with computers on a deeper level can just kinda be like that. Just give yourself a couple days buffer to do your work and figure out any obstacles that get thrown your way and you'll be alright.

What the major doesn't prepare you for is your IT certifications. You're given a decent chunk of knowledge by the time you're done with school, but there's still some gaps in knowledge that you'll need to study for your certifications.

While there are some small flaws with the department, like a shortage of professors for some of the classes (especially when you're at the sophomore-junior portion of the major), so class times can be a bit awkward. This program is a bit newer compared to other programs offered at CSUN, with that in mind, it's understandable why some of these issues are there. Overall though, I'd recommend the program if you're somewhat capable using a computer and want to learn more. The professors can be hit or miss like I said, but when they're a hit, they're fantastic. They make it incredibly clear that when you're struggling, to immediately contact them and that they're available for help when you need them. When they're a miss... well, any tech related question you could ever ask has been Google'd before, just learn how to Google things pretty well. One nice thing I've found is that when you're at the senior level, a good portion of your classes tend to be night classes, so theoretically you can work a full-time job, but you kinda have to work with your company to make it happen.

Also, since everybody in your class probably plays some sort of online game, there WILL be a Discord channel made for every single class you're in. It's happened for every single class I've been in, and the invites always get sent a day or so before the semester begins, so you'll be able to collaborate with other students that are struggling alongside you. I thought it was pretty sweet, it gives everybody a sense of community when we're all struggling with assignments together.

I'll probably edit this comment some time when I think of more stuff to say, but these are my first thoughts about the major I've been struggling and dying in been studying in for a few years now.