<p>So I am asking people who have considered/are considering or in fact are doing a double major including both. With all due respect, I don't want people's opinion that have only heard of the majors and are not even in either. Anyone who has looked at the two curriculims and has some ambition can realize they can be done in 4 years (with summers) and of course it will be hard, if I wanted to hear that I will just go see me advisor. Also I am within the COE but I am in EECS or BioE right now, which one should I switch in first or can I apply for a dual major immediately?</p>
<p>in 4 years*</p>
<p>(EECS major)</p>
<p>CS + MCB is common and more reasonable I think. </p>
<p>A lot of people I know that major in BioE and minor in EECS usually say they wish they were just EECS if that helps.</p>
<p>I guess it depends on what you want to do with EECS + BioE.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in medical devices, EE + a few biology classes should be enough. You need to go to grad school or else you won’t be able to do anything really groundbreaking though, so maybe EE undergrad and do something in BioE for grad school?</p>
<p>If you want to do computational biology, than CS + Bio (+ Math) is a much better option. EE doesn’t help much if you’re into genetic algorithms and what not. If you’re CS + Bio, you have more freedom to take electives. EECS isn’t super restricted in upper div curriculum (only 5 required classes). But At the very least you’d get out of two EE classes. (EE20 and EE40)</p>
<p>I switched from BioE to EECS last semester since I felt I could still get all the bio I needed through electives and many of classes that relate to both BioE and EECS are cross listed. Also I wanted to make sure I had a strong foundation in both EE and CS so that I could apply both hardware and software knowledge to the field of BioEngineering, which requires taking a lot of both EE and CS classes, which is harder to do with the BioE grad reqs.</p>
<p>That is just my opinion though.</p>
<p>Wow you are so not going to have a life for the next four years
If you are a freshman, I really really want to tell you to exercise caution. You may be the brightest kid in the world (and you might be able to pull it off ) but I’ve seen so many people come with great ambitions and then end up feeling like loser - but then again, all your classmates had similar SAT, GPA and other stats as you (with few exceptions of course)</p>
<p>EECS and MCB might be the most soul-raping majors on the campus - and double majoring in them surely won’t be easy.</p>
<p>Again, if you are freshman, stick to one major and don’t overload on the units. Those weeder classes will be tougher than you think, even if you’ve done AP (I’d suggest EECS first)</p>
<p>If you are heavy loaded-with EECS major stuff the first semester (with possibly one bio-related class) and did fine, then you may attempt to do the double major thing … </p>
<p>but seriously, if you are a freshman, get a taste of Cal before you jump into things.</p>
<p>Also, get the EECS stuff out of the way first - L&S allows extra semester (9th) relatively more easily than CoE for double majoring</p>
<p>Why not major in EECS, but use some of your science courses (3+ units which are not specified to be Physics 7A/7B), engineering units not required to be EECS (up to 5 units), and free electives (up to 27 units) for biology and/or bioengineering courses?</p>