As the title says, I am at a community college at the moment, and I plan on transferring to Engineering next year, but once I graduate and I have the grades up, I plan on transferring to Colorado School of Mines, but given how there isn’t a Computer Engineering program, there is, however, a Computer Science + Engineering program, so that just leaves one question: Should I stay in Engineering once I transfer, or transfer to Computer Science instead.
Here are the course requirements:
What community college are you at? Mines has a lot of engineering built into their CS degree.
You should take as many classes that match the Mines curriculum closely, as you can and get As.
Mines may ask you to retake physics, for instance, as its not that rigorous at most Colorado community colleges.
If you are out of state, then it all depends on where you are.
It might be good to get transferred as soon as possible. Many classes will not transfer is the problem,but ask your community college for advise, if its in state.
If its out of state, you need to be really careful, as Mines may not even recognize most of your classes as equivalent, or it may. You need to consult someone at Mines and get advice on the best path forward.
If you want to work in robotics pick the robotics thread. If you want to work on computer architecture, or any other hardware related career, pick computer engineering. If you want to stay on the coding side of things, then pick computer science, but again, once you get to Mines you can choose that, worry a lot more about how you will transfer and if your classes will transfer. If your grades are not As you should look at transferring to Colorado State, and not Mines. The two years you are spending at community college is not likely to transfer to Mines, it may transfer to Colorado State Engineering, but check on that.
Mines will be difficult and may take up to four more years, depends on exactly what you took at your community college.
Mines degrees are often taking students 4.5 years, but if you work hard you can finish them in four years.
Transferring puts you at a big disadvantage to the students who are freshman at Mines.
With computers, you’ll be surprised how much overlap there is, because of how diverse it is. A lot of computer engineering and CS graduates end up in IT and wind up making a good living at it. Some get jobs in their specific major field, but most don’t. It’s just where the job opening was at the time. Trust me, it’s nothing to stress over. Your biggest insurance policy is to make sure you’re proficient in a language, like C#, Java or SQL.