<p>Do recruiters notice the difference, and do they care? I'm a current LSA student looking to declare in CS, not sure if it's worth it to transfer to engineering for recruiting purposes. </p>
<p>I'm aware that we all get the same career resources and whatnot, I'm just wondering how employers view the difference</p>
<p>We just went through this decision with my son. He is extremely good at math and enjoys working with computers, so he was thinking computer science. As he was getting ready to apply to UM we learned that they offer two paths to a CS degree.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, my husband is an engineer (mechanical and acoustics) and he felt that our son should go that route. He thinks that it will open up more doors for our son.</p>
<p>Whether he’s right or not, I have no idea. I’ve read a little bit about the differences and it seeems that the engineering route is heavier on the math. I think a great deal of it depends on what type of computer science you want to do as a career.</p>
<p>It might be a good idea to speak with an advisor in each department to get their take on what the differences are. I suspect that a CS degree from UM in either department will make you an attractive job candidate. Best wishes to you!</p>
<p>I’m a Freshman there and I talked to a woman who works with all the CS advisors in both LSA and COE. She has SEEN and ANALYZED the employment data at the Engineering Career Resource Center and found that there salary difference and type of jobs CS-LSA students receive are statistically insignificant. Since all of the Computer Science are the same, the difference is that CSE kids have to take the core requirements like more calculus, physics, and chem. There is no programming involved in those classes. Because when it comes down to it in an interview, you will be asked Computer Science questions not chem,physics, or calc. Also she found more interestingly, the CS-LSA kids held more jobs internationally due to the fourth-term language proficiency requirement in LSA. For example, many CS-LSA students work in Germany, France, Spain etc… Also there is an advantage to being in CS-LSA since you will be able to take classes earlier like EECS 280 and EECS 203 during your freshman year(In fact, I even knew someone who took 281 and 376 as a freshman). I have many COE peers who take those both during their sophomore years. This allows the CS-LSA person to take more ULCS classes during their later years. Also, many students not surprising find CS difficult so one might have to repeat a class or two, but even if that happens CS-LSA students will still be able to graduate in time without extra terms(including summer). But many CSE kids also able to take EECS 280 and EECS 203 during their freshman too have sufficient scores on AP/IB Calc I, Calc II, Chem, and Physics.</p>
<p>The only downside is that COE kids tend to make fun of LSA for being in the “easier school”. But this disappears once one a junior/senior once both groups of kids have survived classes like EECS 281 and 370 and other high level CS classes which makes Physics 140 or Gen Chem look like nothing. But even other non-CS LSA kids think that your CS courses are “easy” versions of the COE except that’s not the case since both groups of students are not separated.</p>
<p>Edit: Man, I wish I had a post like this when I considering transferred between the two.</p>
<p>As ForeverAlone said, there’s no real employment differences between the two. If you think you’d prefer to fulfill the LSA requirements (like language) then do LSA, if you think you’d rather fulfill the COE requirements (like Chem, Physics, Calc) then do COE.</p>
<p>My friend’s son studying computer engineering at UMich told me the same thing last week.</p>
<p>Just found this.</p>
<p>[Student</a> Focus: Internships in Computer Science - YouTube](<a href=“Student Focus: Internships in Computer Science - YouTube”>Student Focus: Internships in Computer Science - YouTube)!</p>
<p>I had all of those people in the video as discussion leaders for EECS 183 the CS-LSA preReq to the concentration, whereas COE students take ENGR101.</p>
<p>So you can see that those CS-LSA students did fine in their internship prospects at Google, Microsoft, Yelp, and Bloomberg-LP.</p>
<p>Ok foreveralone’s post has made me really really want to switch to LSA for so many reasons.
how do i go about doing this?</p>
<p>(i am going to be a freshman in the fall)</p>
<p>^ I’m pretty sure you complete your first semester in CoE then apply to transfer into LSA.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, DD is interested in other engineering that do not have that option.</p>