<p>What is the difference between getting a CS major at the school of engineering vs the school of arts and sciences at a college? Is the curriculum and material different?
What about job opportunities? What would recruiters look at more?
Thanks</p>
<p>At my school there’s virtually no difference, except that majors in the Liberal Arts school don’t have to take DiffEq, Physics, or Chemistry. All the computer science requirements are the same.</p>
<p>Based on university bureaucracy, it might be easier to dual-major if in the Liberal Arts school.</p>
<p>As far as I’ve heard no one cares which you got, so long as they were equivalent. At a school where they aren’t equivalent, it might be different.</p>
<p>Which school? It depends on the school.</p>
<p>If the CS courses are the same, it is not likely to make much difference in recruiting.</p>
<p>It depends on your school. I’d say that it likely won’t matter for recruiting, since you probably don’t have to put it on your resume (you might say B.A, Computer Science, but that hardly looks unusual at all). Maybe someone at an interview will ask about why you’re not going for a BS, so you’d need a good story. But that shouldn’t be too much of a challenge.</p>
<p>If you have any worries that down the road someone will look down upon a BA instead of a BS, go for the BS. I’m not sure why people go for the BA anyway. Although they are virtually identical degrees, some recruiters might be uninformed.</p>
<p>Well that’s how I look at it. You don’t have to listen to me if you want the BA.</p>
<p>At UMich they have a CS degree through LSA (BS) and a CS degree through the College of Engineering (BSEng.)… the only difference (here) is that you don’t have the same pre-reqs to get into the CoE (Chem + lab, 2 physics classes + lab). Besides for that, you get the same career resources as those in the CoE and the only thing you’d have to worry about is an employer thinking something bad about only getting a BS even though both degrees require the same classes pertaining to CS. I’m in a bit of a dilemma myself as I’m not sure if I should go for the BSEng or BS and if I were to go for the BSEng, I’d have to take the harder pre-reqs now. The only reason this is even a debate is because I’m unsure on whether or not I’d like to double major in another engineering or not. Otherwise, I’d stay in LSA… Decisions decisions. I just wish they’d have the major in one school so I wouldn’t be so confused.</p>
<p>I’m confused are these two different colleges one with the CS department in the school of engineering and one with it in the other. Or does your university offer two differnt degrees? Where I went to school CS was in the same group as math, physics and chemistry. All of those were offered as BS’s, and most people didn’t pay attention to the fact that it reported to a different Dean from the school of engineering. It was just administrative.</p>