My university made the distinction as well. I studied Computer Science vs. Information Technology (which wasn't even under the school of science and technology, it was under the school of business). I learned math, development, and theory; the Information Technology curriculum was basically "this is how you install an OS, this is how you set up a Cisco network, this is how you set up an Oracle database, meet the Bourne shell, etc." Basically, the things in the IT curriculum were training/hand-holding for things that I could have(and since graduating have) figured out in an hour if you locked me in a room with a computer and an internet connection. It's different everywhere, I guess. Our IT students certainly weren't capable of writing compilers or doing formal logic.