<p>Is it possible to major in, say, computer science at the College of Engineering and also double major in, say, Film/TV/Theatre at the College of Arts and Letters? </p>
<p>The answer to this question depends upon a lot of factors.</p>
<p>The first is what you mean by, “Is it possible?” If you are asking whether or not the university will allow you to do that, then the answer is yes. If you are asking whether or not it is possible to graduate with a double major in four years, then the answer really depends on which specific majors you are looking at.</p>
<p>A lot of people in the College of Arts and Letters or Mendoza College of Business double major with one major in one of those two schools and a second major in the other. This is very common an not too difficult to work out. In the College of Architecture, I don’t think many people double major because that degree program already takes five years without a double major. In the College of Science, some people double major, and some of those people have their second major in a college other than the College of Science. The College of Engineering is kind of tricky because there are so many requirements. You probably wouldn’t be able to double major between engineering and arts and letters or business and graduate in four years. If you have enough AP credit, you may be able to double major between College of Science and College of Engineering, but that kind of depends on which engineering major you want and which science major you want.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for answering, but to ask a bit further, what do you mean there are so many requirements in the College of Engineering? If I don’t attempt to dual-degree (which, by the way, is that possible?) but simply double major across schools, wouldn’t I only have to complete the core requirements of one school? Or are you talking about enrolling into the CoE and double majoring across into let’s say the CAS, and the core requirements of the CoE being particularly abundant? </p>
<p>I can tell you about the dual degree program between college of engineering and arts and letters. It is called the Reilly Program. I know the director of it! He is super nice and all the faculty in that program are wonderful! You officially apply for the program your sophomore year. It is a 5 year program and the school tries to help you as much as possible with the tuition for the 5th year. Also, if you have many AP credits, you may be able to finish in 4 years. I assume if you can get a dual degree in 4-5 years, you could probably finish a double major, but I’m not entirely sure. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>If you’re asking whether or not you can get a dual degree from the College of Engineering, you can, but that would almost certainly require five years.</p>
<p>As far as my statement about the College of Engineering having a lot of requirements, I was talking about the individual majors themselves, not the college as a whole. For example, I am a chemical engineering major. There are the 13 courses that are required by the University regardless of major, so I obviously have to take all of those. The College of Engineering has some course requirements, but chemical engineering itself has 22 required courses beyond the College of Engineering core. This means that even if I wanted to do a double major where my first major was, say, biology (and then I wouldn’t be required to take the College of Engineering core), I’d still be required to take those 22 courses in order to get my second major in chemical engineering. Between university requirements and chemical engineering requirements, I’d have 35 courses required. That only leaves room for 5 more courses in order to complete the College of Science core as well as the requirements for a degree in biology. Obviously, some of the university requirements could count for other things too (examples: my university natural science and mathematics requirements would be fulfilled by courses I was taking for my College of Science core, my seminar could also count for philosophy or literature or something, etc.), but it would still be very difficult to get all of those requirements fulfilled in four years.</p>
<p>I hope that example wasn’t too confusing. My main point is that Arts and Letters and Business tend to have a lot more free electives in their schedules than Engineering, so double majoring is much harder to do in engineering.</p>