Best Minor with Computer Science

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<p>I just wanted everybody's opinion of the minor which goes the best with CS. I laid down a bunch of things I was considering and I wanted to know what would be the best career-wise, or whether your minor affects your career at all. Here are a list of options, in no particular order, and some of my personal comments on them:
1. Business Minor - might help because I want to do an MBA later on
2. Game Design - if the minor doesnt matter much, this sounds incredibly fun to do
3. Applied Math - Math is my passion and it works really well with CS so I think I'd do really well
4. Operations Research and Management Science - Seems to be a good combination of Business, Math and CS
5. Information Science - CS and info science have a lot of crosslisted courses and might work well together, I'd presume.
6. Electrical and Computer Engineering - I know most of you are gonna say, how weird is it to major in CS and minor in ECE; they both deal with the same thing, but the ECE minor focusses a lot on Circuit design, which is something I find extremely fascinating and was always that elusive thing you never understood as a high schooler.</p>

<p>This decision means a lot to me, so if there any well informed posters, I would appreciate a wise word.</p>

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<p>it’s not that weird to minor in ECE, I know a bunch of people (a bunch meaning a few, including me) that are considering minoring in ECE as well.</p>

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<p>Out of those, I would choose Applied Math or ECE because they are the most challenging. ECE is what I ended up doing. Don’t get a game design minor if you don’t want to do game design for a career. Also, the OR/business stuff just isn’t my cup of tea… if it’s yours, great. You might want to look at doing an AEP major with a CS minor instead or even a double major.</p>

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<p>Just want to say that ECE isn’t just about circuit design :)</p>

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<p>^ ECE isnt but the minor is basically just that.</p>

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<p>^ That depends on what you are taking. From the Undergraduate Handbook, you have to take two from ECE 2100, 2200, 2300. Two from ECE 3100, 3140, 3150, 3250. Another technical 3000 level, and one technical 4000 level.</p>

<p>If the person chose to take 2100, 2200, 3030, 3140, 3150, and 4250, I wouldn’t consider it to be “circuit design”. Just saying…</p>

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<p>you can always do multiple minors…</p>

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<p>The Game Design Minor?</p>