<p>I am currently a High School Senior (a bit early to think about this, perhaps) but I was wondering what combinations of the above majors would get me what job (assuming I decide not to go to law school)</p>
<p>The thing is, I really don't want to be designing software for clients, etc. I like Statistics a lot and Political Science a lot, but I also like the idea of having computer science skills (I already have some now, such as AP Computer Science, etc)</p>
<p>Ideally, being involved in the political field would be nice.</p>
<p>I don’t have any specific career recommendations, but you can have computer science skills without majoring in computer science. You can learn the languages on your own, or you can take a few CS classes in college. Those are definitely things that you can list on your resume, without necessarily needing to have a degree in it.</p>
<p>My recommendation would just be to try to get involved with whatever field you’re interested in (doesn’t have to be right now–waiting until you’re a sophomore or junior in college is fine). It’ll give you a better idea of what types of jobs are out there and whether or not you can see yourself in those jobs.</p>
<p>Major in Political Science + Statistics. Take coursework in survey research methods (in the sociology or political science dept.) and in GIS (in the geography dept.). You also might consider coursework in business analytics (in the business school).</p>
<p>I double majored in history and political science. As statistics (along with computer software to compute those statistics) is a required class and a huge part of political science research, I would imagine that political science paired with both/either comp sci and/or statistics would be an extremely valuable thing for a political science major to have. Or even as someone else said… just political science and a minor in statistics and knowledge of a computer programming language. I could see someone with those qualifications being leaps and bounds ahead of all other political science majors. </p>
<p>In short, I would continue to look into something like this for job possibilities but I imagine they are very promising. I could imagine employment as a political science researcher, campaign worker, or some form of political or government analyst. Computer science and statistics are very marketable skills, especially so when paired with something like political science. The possibilities are very broad and I think it would be an excellent decision. </p>
<p>Statistics involves plenty of programming, so if you’re not interested in working specifically in a computer science related field, it seems as if statistics is the better option. The computing requirements for stats at your school may be low (integrated SAS, R, or STATA programming), but a stats major with some comp sci classes is pretty good, and comp sci classes could also be counted as electives (such as numerical methods, statistical computing, etc.).</p>