Prospects after "System Analysis and Management"?

Question

Project management

Hello!
There is such a specialty in universities (I did not finish my studies at it, because it was not clear what it was, I entered where they took it on the budget, although my soul burned to enter a near-programming specialty, there were not enough points). When I was studying, it was interesting in principle to calculate various systems and so on, but it seemed to me that it had no practical application, and after graduation I was afraid that my fate would be the work of an indistinct engineer for 15 thousand rubles a month in a dull soviet office, some kind of research institute .
Does it make sense to complete my studies in this specialty if I am engaged in front-end development or is it better to re-enter programming? Fortunately, there is now money (for Russian education, of course).
Is this profession cooler and rarer than web development? That is, was I mistaken at one time about the lameness of this profession?
How is it in reality with the demand in Russia? In the West? Who can work? What salary?
The question is that the web seems to me too easy and pop niche, that I exchanged my intellect in vain for this area, I degrade, after I entered the budget and studied in that specialty, there were many complex and interesting subjects and something I am told by people who graduate from this specialty should earn decently than web developers, since the work is more difficult and rarer. Am I right, or should I not rock the boat and continue to rivet sites for decent pay in principle (average salary $ 25 per hour in the freelance market)?
Thank you!

Answer 1

You know, from personal experience, an employer needs people who can solve his tasks/problems .
So answer yourself the question, what tasks of the problem and what employers did you learn to solve at the institute. And what will you learn if you continue to study further. And what problems will you learn to solve if you transfer, for example, to another specialty.
If you are doing front-end, then continue in this area, why not. In any case, there is room for development, for example, writing large and complex web application interfaces. Find a job as a junior js developer, for example, learn frameworks. Take courses maybe. The same coursera can provide much more useful and relevant information than higher education.
However, the choice is always yours.

Answer 2

1) The point is not in the name of the specialty, but in what is taught specifically in this university, specifically in this specialty. Since you have already come to this question, ask it to teachers and the head of the department of this specialty. Let them tell this not in theory, but show the lists of employed graduates. This is where the moment of truth comes for you. Everything else will be fortune-telling on the coffee grounds.
2) The steepness and rarity of the profession has nothing to do with what you get from it. It depends on how good you are at your job. And this, in turn, depends on how "rushing" you are from this. You can be a cool specialist in a very common profession and be "in chocolate". And you can be no specialist in a very rare and sought-after profession and earn little.

Answer 3

As a system administrator with 5 years of experience, I am now entering this specialty, and this is exactly what I need for development.
I consider the author not quite sane, but if you like walking, then it’s better to go for a more technical specialty. Not everyone is given to be an analyst and management.