<p>So guys which do you recommend? Ive been exposed to Computer Programming, as I go to a Technical school for just that, however I am afraid that I wont be able to take being in front of a computer all my life :P(plus I am interested in what makes up a computer and similar devices.)</p>
<p>What about EE with a concentration in Computers?</p>
<p>well EE incorporates CS in its syllabus too...(I had to take C++, Pascal, Java, Assembly Language, Data Structures) so if you want the best of both worlds...go EECS</p>
<p>but say you go to a college that offers only one or the other?</p>
<p>I would do Electrical Engineering...but im biased cause that's my major....CS is wayy too boring for me....also in EE you do a fair bit of programming and EE generally will give you more options in the job market</p>
<p>You could do EE with a concentration in computers. Many colleges offer a Computer Engineering major.</p>
<p>is it possible to do CS in grad school with a straight EE degree, and vice-versa (i.e EE grad school with CS degree and no minor etc in EE)? if it is possible, which i suspect it is, would it be an easy transition? and would you be disadvantaged to at least a slight extent in doing so...I know people mention their friends radically switching from say bio to civE in grad school, but I feel that they surely must have been in a minority and really have displayed something amazing to get through</p>
<p>anyone?...bump</p>
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is it possible to do CS in grad school with a straight EE degree, and vice-versa (i.e EE grad school with CS degree and no minor etc in EE)? if it is possible, which i suspect it is, would it be an easy transition?
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<p>Yes it is possible. The truth is, many (probably most) graduate programs do not care that much about what you majored in. Rather they care about what courses you have taken and/or what you have proven that you know how to do. </p>
<p>Hence, if you have taken a lot of CS courses and done well in them, then it doesn't really matter whether your degree is EE. Or, perhaps even more importantly, if you can get on a CS research project or, best of all, if you can get a strong recommendation from a CS prof, then the fact that you don't have a CS degree becomes largely irrelevant. </p>
<p>In fact, if you look at the prominent computer scientists in history, you will notice that many of them do not have CS undergraduate degrees. Look at the Turing Award winners (the "Nobel Prize" of computer science). A significant portion of the winners do not have undergraduate CS degrees. Instead, they have degrees in EE, physics, math, things like that.</p>