Hello everyone, as it says in the title. I greatly enjoy all 4 fields which I have listed.If I could I would major in all of them because of how facilitating they are and how enjoyable they are to me.
What majors/minors should I take to combine all of my interests into a manageable schedule? Any advice is appreciated.
Doing any sort of engineering degree (which computer science typically counts as one) alone is going to be very time consuming. You usually get a very limited number of credit hours that are allocated for free electives. Chances are neuroscience and econ classes only count for free elective credit.
Combining engineering and CS is easy. Please expand on what neuroscience and economics mean to you and why you are interested (i.e. what do you see yourself getting out of them?).
Depends on where you go to school and what the school’s requirement for graduation say. A typical ABET accredited engineering major requires almost 3+ years of class requirements and you need to add the other graduation requirements on top of that. If you have AP credits and attend a college that does give credit, you may be able to get out of some of the science, math and english requirements saving about 1 semester or more during which you may be able to study other subjects.
Only place I can think of where you can do all of these subjects is Brown since they have mostly an open curriculum.
Cognitive Science is the intersection of Neuroscience and Computer Science. You can choose to add on more electives in Computer Sciences to possibly double major - that is your best bet.
Don’t even think you can manage a proper engineering major with neuroscience - it will be a logistical nightmare. Engineering will, plain and simple, not leave you with slots to take much other besides the required GE courses. A proper engineering program is just too intense on its own. There is a reason engineer majors start laughing when other students complain about workload.