Most Lucrative Major at Berkeley?

[ucbalumnus]

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@MsHappy

Plus, I hear the workload for a CS/EECS major gets exponentially harder later on. Ideally, I would want a major that has a sane workload (where you don’t have to pull allnighters if you manage yourtime correctly), and is mentally challenging. And of course, decent pay.</p>

<p>I’ve also been considering Applied Math: can anyone here attest to the workload and pay?

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<p>High workload can be due to one or both of the following things:</p>

<p>A. The course may have time consuming features like labs, term projects, or computer programming assignments, even if the course material is not all that mentally challenging.</p>

<p>B. Mentally challenging courses can take a lot of time doing reading, assignments, studying, etc…</p>

<p>EE and CS courses can have A, B, or both. Math courses (and CS theory courses) generally can have B (although some of the top math students won’t find them that challenging), but usually not A.</p>