Hi, so I was admitted EA to CAS and am contemplating which college I will select to attend. BC has offered an INCREDIBLY generous FA package, but I am slightly unsure of how many marketable degrees are actually offered in CAS. Could someone highlight for me marketable degrees offered in CAS that would make it a degree worth investing in. THANKS!
probably the most “marketable” major from any liberal arts college, and that includes the liberal arts colleges contained within major research universities, is Econ. Of course, you still have to do well grade wise.
@bluebayou Computer Science beats Econ any day
Computer Science can run in cycles. Right now is clearly a good time to be in the field. Econ is more stable. Of greater importance is what matusa96 finds interesting. Choosing a major because of ROI might be a bad decision if it turns out the student has little interest in the field (or isn’t particularly good at it).
Thanks all for responding! @gobosox‌ I really do want to major in something that interests me, but I also want to have a job when I graduate. I’m hoping to find something that both interests me and will be marketable. But I definitely agree with what you’re saying. Interest is super important.
Computer science is not really “Arts and Sciences” but rather a professional program that BC houses in CAS. Many universities have a separate professional School of Computer Science.
Most universities house their computer science programs in one of two (or in some cases both) places. The first is in Arts and Sciences; the second is in engineering. Duke houses their CS only in arts and sciences, which means all computer science majors must take a number of foreign (and not programming) languages. University of Pennsylvania houses their CS program only in engineering. Many. including Tufts, Northwestern, and Cornell have options for computer science in both Arts and Sciences. A few, such as RPI, have computer science in the Science department, and not engineering. A few, Carnegie Mellon and Northeastern that I know of, have their own school for computer science.