CUNY queens or baruch college for computer science

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I got accepted into Baruch and Queens college and I want to major in computer science. I know that both schools have their ups and downs.

I also have some questions about the transferring process since both schools are practically useless when it comes to helping unless I pay my deposit. I went on my degree works “transfer what ifs” and saw that there was a long list of credits I need to take for both schools.

For queens, do I really need to take 2 lit, 2 languages, 2 science, 2 additional and 2 writing courses just to fulfill the college option?

for Baruch, do I really need to take 4 college options, 8 pre-business, and 8 business classes?

I feel like all of this is unnecessary as a transfer because…how am I suppose to finish all of this in the remaining years plus my major credits?

When it comes to choosing the right school, I feel like Baruch has a good connection with a lot of businesses when I come out of college and a big support group. Also if I were to switch my major midway, there would be so many other majors I may be interested in.

For Queens, they have a better computer science program and they base their program solely on cs instead of business so that would be my focus.

I am transferring from John Jay college so all the credits are all over the place for both schools because, for some reason, their credits and classes are completely different.

I am looking for a good environment, community, advisors, and to make friends that would allow me to actually want to go to school instead of transferring once again.

Pls help.

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do you want to stay in the city or are you ok w queens, I would shoot for Baruch , it has the better rep but when you transfer you sometimes lose credits, if money is tight go with what ever school lets you transfer more credits.

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Thank you NJdad07090. The commute isn’t really a problem for me. It’s just that I want to learn when I’m in college so if you know which cs program is better, that would be great!
I saw a “what if” credit transfer and they’re basically the same.
Baruch has so many connections so I can easily get a job once I graduate. However, the ratio of business-oriented classes to cs classes is like 10:1
Queens college is open to all majors and I hear they actually teach how to code and stuff like that which is essential.