<p>Hello! I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how combined majors work at Northeastern, specifically the B.S. Combined Major for Computer Science and Biology.</p>
<p>I really want to go to this school and I'm considering my options for majors and I'm very curious about this program. </p>
<p>If anyone has any experience with this major or any combined major at Northeastern, it'd be great if they could share their opinion and advice.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>When I went to the admitted students’ day, they said that a combined major was 2/3 of each major. So it’s less work than a double major, but technically more work than a single major (2/3 + 2/3 = 1 and 1/3 of a major vs. 1 major).</p>
<p>You can find the requirements and sample schedules for CS and bio (and other combined majors) here:
[Combined</a> Majors with College of Science - Northeastern University](<a href=“http://www.ccs.neu.edu/undergraduate/combined-majors-with-college-of-science/]Combined”>http://www.ccs.neu.edu/undergraduate/combined-majors-with-college-of-science/)</p>
<p>Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. I wasn’t exactly sure before how it’d be different from a double major.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in that, step 1 is make sure you take the intro classes in both right away! I didn’t discover I liked CS until 2nd semester my freshman year. By the time I had taken the fundamentals classes and looked at the requirements for a combined major (with behavioral neuroscience, in my case, which would be quite similar to CS + bio) it was too late for me to fit in all the CS requirements because of pre-reqs. (CS is apparently one of the hardest majors to switch into not because of competition for the spots, but because of a lot of sequential pre-reqs make it hard to fit everything in.)</p>