question about major and minor??

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<p>applied math major with cs minor, or cs major with applied math minor which is better ???</p>

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<p>Cs major math minor</p>

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<p>but I have taken math55…can i still choose Cs major math minor???</p>

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<p>Math 55 would impede you in pursuing that major? :S I don’t know about class specifics, but for my 2 cents:
I can easily see how a CS major would create a career all in itself, with math being a very good minor complement. But applied math as a major, I’m not sure. I’ve always seemed to read about math as a minor. The career opportunities with the heavy application in CS as a major seems better</p>

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<p>Very easy, if you want to teach get the math major. If you want a job outside of academia get the CS major</p>

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<p>If you are looking at job and career prospects, you can look here:</p>

<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/AppMath.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/AppMath.stm&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Ask the Math and CS departments about the Math 55 versus CS 70 question.</p>

<p>If you are interested in industry software jobs, consider including CS 170, CS 162, EE 122, CS 169, CS 186, and CS 161 in your course selection.</p>

<p>Note that major / minor may affect enrollment priority. For example, the CS course enrollment priority is described here:</p>

<p>[Enrollment</a> Guidelines](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/enrollment.shtml]Enrollment”>Getting Into Computer Science Classes - Google Docs)</p>

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<p>Both are viable options. </p>

<p>There are countless opportunities with both majors, with math being a bit more broad (you can, for example, “easily” get a job at Google/DoD/DoE/Banking/in any other field of science). </p>

<p>You might be more limited as a CS major, but by no means will this limitation harm you in any significant way. </p>

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<p>How many math majors actually teach? I think a very small subset of the whole math major population actually goes into academia…</p>

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<p>The career center survey thing counts you as both majors if you double major. It looks like some of those people were CS/math, Business/math, Econ/math rather than just math majors. Because Google requires a CS degree for it’s PM position. And some of them are more business positions. The more relevant numbers are the 63% CS vs 45% employment rate…</p>

<p>Overall, I think a CS degree is far more useful.</p>

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<p>+1 for applied math. </p>

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<p>would a cs degree + econ double major be more beneficial than a cs major + math minor?</p>

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<p>Would you be aiming to go into computing with applications to economics and finance? If you come in from the CS major side, you may want to consider adding selected courses in economics, math, and statistics (probably Economics 101A/136/138 and from the courses listed here: [berkeleyclassesirecommend</a> - markborgschulte](<a href=“http://sites.google.com/site/markborgschulte/berkeleyclassesirecommend]berkeleyclassesirecommend”>Mark Borgschulte, University of Illinois - berkeleyclassesirecommend) ).</p>

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<p>I think the last time Econ 138 (Behavioral and Financial Econ) was offered was in Summer 2010. I don’t know if it’s going to be offered again anytime soon. If you’re interested in Behavioral Econ, you might want to consider Econ 119 (Psych and Econ) instead.</p>

<p>From what I’ve heard, one of the more useful classes from the Econ Dept when it comes to looking for a job, is Econometrics (140 and 141). So that’s another class you probably want to keep in mind.</p>

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<p>so you guys recommend me to just take econ/stats/math classes instead of getting an econ double major?</p>

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<p>^it’s all about how you market yourself. so are you interested in finance or not? many entities respect the econ+math double major.</p>

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<p>will it be better for job opportunities?</p>