<p>I am a freshmen currently enrolled at Chattanooga State Community College. I plan to transfer either after my first year or second year in college and I wondering if it would be possible for me to graduate in 5 years if I dual degreed in cs and econ, I am also considering double major Bs econ and bs cs. If anyone could help me I would very much appricate it.</p>
<p>Try counting courses or credits for both majors to see if they can all fit into the desired number of semesters of normal course loads.</p>
<p>As a transfer from a community college, you may have some advantages and disadvantages:</p>
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<li><p>An advantage is that you can spend the extra time inexpensively at community college taking all of the freshman and sophomore level courses for both majors and all freshman and sophomore level breadth requirements.</p></li>
<li><p>A disadvantage is that it is possible that not all freshman and sophomore level courses needed for the majors (especially computer science) are available at community college, which means having to “catch up” on them after transfer.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for the advice. I counted courses and hours and it would be possible to do either a dual degree or a double major, my only question is which would I be better off doing? Is a dual degree really that much better when it comes to landing a job? Especially since I would have economics/computer science degree which would give me huge job opportunity. And how much harder would a dual degree be compared to a double major? (extra 30 credit hours for a dual degree laid aside)</p>
<p>It may help you if you are willing to take jobs which either major is specific to, or the few where both would be useful (e.g. writing computer software with financial or economics modeling applications; though CS major with economics minor or just some economics courses may be good enough for that).</p>
<p>“Dual degree” versus “double major” depends on how your school defines those degree programs and what difference in requirements there are.</p>