Major in EECS and Physics?

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<p>I'm thinking of doing EECS for undergrad and then physics/or applied physics for masters/ph.d</p>

<p>i'm more interested (at the moment) in the physics aspect than the engineering (at the moment particle physics/cosmology)</p>

<p>i want to do undergrad in eecs for sci. instrument development in the future, and i'll still get a good grounding in physics i'm guessing. i'm also more interested in physics in an academic setting...not necessarily applied physics....but maybe</p>

<p>do people take this approach commonly? is it possible in most university's to double major in eecs/physics (though i'd imagine this would be extremely hard) most of hte physics minors that collegs offer seem to be in astronomy</p>

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<p>Look into schools that offer engineering physics for undergrad- basically the program offers most of the basic classes for physics and several upper-level ones in the engineering field of your choice. It's not <em>quite</em> the same as applied physics, though kinda similar... I don't know if one could easily manage an EECS/physics major otherwise, as there are enough difficult classes that wouldn't overlap in any decent program(s).
As for going into physics after EE, my TA for my lab last year was a physics grad student who'd gotten her undergrad degree in EE. So it's definetely done in both directions, and quite often!</p>