<p>Is it possible to double major in Political Science and Computer Science? If so, what careers could this lead to?</p>
<p>Of course it’s possible. It will probably take you forever since their requirements are vastly different. The careers that will lead to it are any involving CS. Poli Sci is a great major and teaches writing, research, and analytical skills, but the jobs for those skills are very small and would likely go to someone with experience or a HYP degree. </p>
<p>Major in what you like. We put way too much influence on our majors (and this board doesn’t help) and really you can go into journalism with a CS degree and work with computers with a poli sci degree. Now you may need additional training, but your passion will always win over any training. </p>
<p>Which interests you more? What made you choose poli sci and CS?</p>
<p>I actually disagree with blueapple in that it may take forever. My son has mentioned majoring in liberal arts such as history, poli sci, geography. He also said he has an interest in a minor in CS and has not ruled out a major. So as I looked at various curricula, I found liberal arts core require up to 42 credits and maors requiring around 36 credits. That’s 114 credits and you need 120. Definitely doable.</p>
<p>No matter what happens with that double major, you can work in CS.</p>
<p>The problem with double majoring in majors in different schools/colleges of the university (which CS and poli sci may be) is that some of the prereq’s for the major requirements (especially CS) will be vastly different from each other. Thus many of your electives for your core will probably be computer courses, or you may need to take more to satisfy core/prereq for both majors. It is certainly doable, but you need to plan it from that first semester if you want to do it in as little time as possible.</p>
<p>Never said you didn’t have to plan!</p>