<p>Does it make a difference in terms of grad school or jumping immediately (after UG) into a career? Do employers and grad school admins prefer a B.S. or a B.E. over a B.A.?</p>
<p>I’m just guessing, but I would suppose the program reputation has more to do with how it is perceived than the BS/BA/BE. At an unrecognized school, BA may have a negative connotation as less rigorous, but they might give you the benefit of the doubt or check your coursework to see if it’s up to muster. I don’t know…</p>
<p>The BA allows you to take more courses outside of your major, while the BS may necessitate some engineering science/physics/advanced courses. At some schools, like cornell or cal, the BA and BS are offered by different departments.</p>
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<p>Actually, at Cal, the offering department is the same. What differs is the specific college: Letters & Science or Engineering.</p>
<p>yeah, that was what i meant, college not department</p>
<p>At my old school, the difference between a B.S. and B.A. in CS was only one class. </p>
<p>It probably depends on your (potential) employer of how much it matters. Some may favor experience or proven knowledge over the details of the type of degree, others specifically want that degree distinction and nothing else.</p>