<p>I'm an ME at Vandy, and I've been interested in maybe picking up a CS minor. I know that yall will say stuff along the lines of "do whatever interests you," but I guess this is more directed to those in the workforce that frequent this page-- would that pique your interest as a hiring manager? Slash given a major GPA that's above your necessary threshold, would that put me in contention with those of a slightly better GPA but an unrelated/no minor?</p>
<p>This is simply out of curiosity. I will probably pursue the minor either way, but I might try to emphasize it more on my resume if yall think it would help.</p>
<p>Seeing as how computer science is very logic/problem-solving driven, I can’t see that it would hurt. But I’m not in the workforce yet.</p>
<p>If you minor (or major) in CS, including courses like Vanderbilt CS 250, 281, 283, 278, 265, 285 may give you a good foundation of concepts commonly used in industry software development jobs.</p>
<p>Would a minor in CS help one get into grad school for a masters in CS?</p>
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<p>This page about applying to UC Berkeley EECS graduate study is of interest to the above question:</p>
<p>[Prerequisites</a> for Applying to UC Berkeley | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Gradadm/Prerequisites.htm]Prerequisites”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Gradadm/Prerequisites.htm)</p>
<p>Note that the course listings under the “SUGGESTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT A TECHNICAL BACKGROUND THAT WISH TO APPLY TO OUR PROGRAM IN CS” approximates a [url=<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/minor.shtml]minor”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/minor.shtml]minor</a> in CS at UC Berkeley<a href=“although%20the%20minor%20allows%20free%20choice%20of%20upper%20division%20CS%20courses;%20the%20CS%20undergraduate%20major%20requires%20only%20162%20and%20170%20specifically,%20with%20various%20other%20courses%20being%20chosen%20from%20lists%20of%20eligible%20CS%20courses”>/url</a>.</p>
<p>Minor in CS if you are interested in the material. Back when I was working in the BME industry, one of the people that was hired was a BME guy with a CS background. He worked in the software development side of things. Another one of my classmates is a MechE + CS minor who ended up doing a software development internship for well known company. </p>
<p>It’ll definitely open some doors up for you, especially if you’re good at it.</p>