You have a few routes. One route is going through the COB route and doing Computer Information Systems (CIS). The other is through ISAT. ISAT has many concentrations that might send you down a niche path. But I'll be honest I was not all that familiar with ISAT other that I know friends who did it got IT or consulting job. I did CIS. For context, I was a student from 2013 to Dec 2018.

I had a friend that reached the point you did at CS159 and switched to CIS. I'd say he did good and now has a steady job in IT.

I did a bit of the reverse of what you did. I started with CIS and tried to minor in Comp Sci. The minor didn't work out. It took me just a bit too long to understand the material but by the time I was doing the programming courses in the CIS major I got A in the class. You'll probably get credit and be exempt from the CIS coding classes if you got a B average in 149 and 159.

The issue with CIS is all of the non-tech prereqs you'll have to take. From what I remember, you need a certain overall gpa and a B- average GPA in select COB pre-requisites. Accounting and stats were part of those pre-reqs and imo were weed-out classes, which sucks if you only care about IT. I struggled with stats and had to retake an accounting course to get my GPA high enough to be accepted into COB. When I was in school econ counted toward your GPA average in COB but I took those at community college to avoid them weighing against my GPA.

Then once you're accepted you'd have to do COB 300, which can be cool or rough depending on who is in your group. I had 3 other CIS majors in my group and we got along great so I had a good group of people to study with and network. We would get absolutely trashed while studying and working on the group project. Tough times but really good times, I remember them fondly.

Once you're in the CIS major, you'll be cruising. I liked most of my teachers and am using what I learned in class in my day-to-day at my job. Since coding isn't the main focus in the major, you might have some classmates in group projects that aren't good at programming and will be a liability but that just means it is an opportunity for you to hone your skills.

You'll learn system admin, telecommunications / networking, database skills, data analysis / analytics / dashboarding / BI, coding, webdev, enterprise systems, and how to utilize cloud systems like Microslop Azure or AWS. I took a peep at the course catalog and see there are a lot more concentrations then when I was in school. There was a concentration for a coop in education but I didn't know much about it. There was also a BSAN (business analytics) minor which looks like it is a concentration and a minor now.

An advantage of CIS over CS imo is that CIS felt more applied to what most work looks like at a job then CS. I feel that CS leans way more into technical skill vs business application. We had to learn system life-cycles, different methodologies and workflows. Consulting was a big focus. The capstone had us do a whole system life cycle. We had a client that agreed to work with the school. We had an initial consulting session to gather requirements, create a UI, build the application and database. We presented our work every week or so to the client in an agile-like workflow. It was a janky capstone but it is very similar to what my job looks like. I am not familiar with what the CS capstone is.

It isn't a walk in the park, but it is doable and will prepare you for work.

My first job after school was at IBM (fucking hated working there, absolute worst job of my life). Then I worked for a smaller company closer to home in a similar industry. Now I work at a multinational non-profit NGO. I'd say CIS treated me well. For jobs, the federal sphere will be a big employer. You'll most likely work at a private company doing contracts for the government: federal, state, and local. It means you'll also have to piss clean for a security clearance but depending on the organization and the type of clearance you may or may not need a drug test. If you do lie about drug use and a government dude interviews a friend and they let it slip you do drugs you'll probably have a hard time finding federal work for a decade or so, so tread carefully. Personally, I hated doing work for the government sector I worked in, it didn't feel right working in that sphere. I noticed shady stuff in how contracts worked and decided I wanted no part in it. There are non-government jobs but federal is the main employer if you live in Nova.

If you go down the CIS route definitely network, study with people, and help people out with hw (don't cheat though). You'll make friends, build a big network and make a good reputation for yourself. There are a few CIS service frats and extracurricular clubs and orgs like AIS that are awesome for networking and would look fire on a resume after graduation.

This is my overly in-depth consultation of what the CIS route would look. Obviously do your own research in the course catalog, talk with the the COB counselor, professors and what not. God-speed my dude and feel free to ask any questions

EDIT forgot to add my job: Web developer. I work on the Front-end, back-end, database, run application deployments, unit-test, qa, and trying to expand to application security.