My son is thinking of majoring in ECE or CS, and I think he could be happy in either. Georgia Tech asks you to state your intended major in your application. Is one major easier to get into than the other?
In addition to having considerable programming experience, including a 5 in AP Computer Science, he has also done robotics for several years. So he is a plausible candidate for either major.
They claim it doesn’t matter and they don’t admit by major. You can deep dive into some of the data here https://lite.gatech.edu/
I really like the student program migration chart. Shows you % in each major and where they end up graduating. Informative for both % accepted into each and which programs are so hard (Biomedical and Aerospace) that they transfer out and where to.
Thanks for the site.
The Bar Chart by Total College Enrollment says there are 11,103 students in the College of Computing and 14,142 in the College of Engineering. But digging further, I see that 8,361 are in the Master’s program in CS, and I know that GT has an Online Master of Science in Computer Science program.
For Spring 2019, I see 403 undergraduate degrees from the College of Computing, 1243 from the College of Engineering, and 194 from the College of Sciences.
Some people in the thread http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/georgia-institute-technology/1888242-myths-of-gt-admissions.html said it was more difficult to be accepted as a CS major but that it is not difficult to change majors once enrolled.
You can deep dive into the admissions data by major on that site in the section called admissions. If you filter, last year CS acceptance was 15.3%, OOS 13.1% and CE was 13.7% and OOS 13%. So right on top of each other for OOS. You can even filter sex, ethnicity, EA, etc. It is pretty informative.