How about finding out if 'student services' at your college offers a career placement test to help narrow down one's career choices.
For general career information: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search 'computer software engineers and computer programmers' or whatever other career that piques one's interest.
With schooling, please steer clear of those online, for-profit schools (course credits may Not transfer either) such as penn foster, walden, ITT tech, university of phoenix, strayer, everest, kaplan, arogsy, devry, sanford brown, capella, ashworth, remington, excelsior, colorado tech and others: http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search.
For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ