<p>Hey, I'm a freshman in college this year and I think I want to go into CS. I'm also very interested in EE, ME and Buisness and would like to pursue minors in all three or maybe only EE and Buisness. Is this a common or even logical thing? I'm going to be talking w/ my adviser any day now to discuss this but I thought I'd ask around first.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Its not logical at all. No one cares about minors anyway so why kill yourself trying to pick up three of them. I would just major in CS and then take the classes in EE, ME and Business that interest you the most. Minor in one of them if you really feel like it.</p>
<p>Minors do not increase your marketability. It would be foolish to try to get 3 minors in such disparate areas. You should either take classes you enjoy, classes that relate to the field that you want to work in, or by taking more CS classes to make you stronger in your chosen major. Notice I didn't say anything in there about a minor. If your school requires a minor, or you really want to get one, pick a single area. Unless you want to spend an extra year in school, 1 minor will be more than enough.</p>
<p>Computer Science is intensive enough without three minors (which, as people have mentioned, are pretty useless.) Take the major, then just fill up the rest of your space with classes such as sky mentioned.</p>
<p>Doing more than 2 majors don't even mean anything anymore. It might seem like diversity and such to some people, but when I actually hear stories of people pursing 3 majors, it just starts to sound pretty ridiculous. More minors or even majors probably won't increase your marketability, unless you want to do something related in both fields.</p>
<p>Better than triple minors would be a double major + a minor. You might do best if you just double major in CE (computer engineering = (CS + EE) / 2 ) and math and get a minor in business. Otherwise, you could double major in CS and business, or double major in IE and Economics / Accounting / Management. That last option might be particularly interesting to you. You could even throw a CS minor on top of that.</p>
<p>But 3 minors... is a little excessive, IMHO.</p>