<p>Due to EECS being hard to get into, is it possible to be in L&S and double major in CS and EE?</p>
<p>Not really. You don’t get priority for engineering classes which essentially means you’re not going to get those classes. You should not apply to a certain school just because you think it’s easier to get into. This is especially true if none of your ECs and interests match up to the major or school you are applying to.</p>
<p>Last time I checked there wasn’t a major at Berkeley dedicated solely to Electrical Engineering. Besides, who would want to major in EE anyways? Computer hardware is boring compared to the software side of things.</p>
<p>Students have the choice of focusing on EE or CS after a few years as an undergrad. You get the EECS major, but it’s eventually divided into two divisions. I’m planning to do EE only. You don’t realize how much more money there is in EE compared to CS. There a billion comp sci people out there, but so few people who understand the potential of nanofab for the future.</p>
<p>You can add the [EE</a> minor](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/eecsminor.html]EE”>The Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Minor | EECS at UC Berkeley) or just take additional EE courses as your [L&S</a> CS technical elective](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/tech_electives.shtml]L&S”>CS Major Upper Division Degree Requirements | EECS at UC Berkeley) and free electives (though you may need extra math and physics course prerequisites).</p>
<p>Wen, what money in EE? My parents told me to do more computer science courses. Both of my parents are EECS so they should know.</p>
<p>@AirforceWuhn: Life is not just money. Having said that, there’s money in EE and there’s money in CS. If you’re really good at something, there’s money no matter what you do. It may not make you filthy rich but enough for you to have a comfortable life.</p>
<p>I graduated with a CS degree, then worked in EE for 8 years, then CS for 7 years, then EE for 6 years, then CS for 8 years, and now neither (something totally different). I would have made the same amount of money had I stayed with either EE or CS.</p>
<p>Both of your parents are EECS so they should know that.</p>
<p>@Lucyan - “who would want to major in EE anyways? Computer hardware is boring compared to the software side of things.”</p>
<p>A friend of mine, Ph. D. in EE, has been working for 35 years, not only just in EE but only designing one thing: power supply.</p>
<p>I don’t think he’s bored. He talks about power supplies now just as enthusiastically as when I first met him 20 years ago.</p>
<p>It may not look “cool” to you but I don’t think it’s boring.</p>
<p>Pen,I was replied to the following quote
You provided a lot of anecdotes.
My parents started out doing EE work but in the last 10-20 years only do CS work even in Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>So what’s the consensus on which of the two fields make more money, in the present, and the future?</p>
<p>You’ll probably be fine with either EE or CS money-wise, and since there’s no separate EE program here, you’ll get some CS experience even if you just want to do EE. Is arguing about which field makes more money really productive when the difference is probably not significant (compared to, say, the difference between engineering and liberal arts majors)?</p>
<p>I’m an EECS major, and since my main field of interest is CS (specifically AI and possibly theory) I also thought that EE was just circuits and/or computer hardware, but I recently looked into signal processing and control, and they sound much more interesting than, say, computer architecture or graphics to me. So don’t count EE out so early.</p>