<p>Can anyone give comments on the Statistics and Computer Science major which is under the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences? For examples, the work load, difficulty of the courses and career prospect.</p>
<p>Comparing the Statistics and Computer Science major to the Computer Science major under the College of Engineering, which major is more difficult?</p>
<p>The majors, math and computer science and statistics and computer science, are new from 2009. Previously, comp science could only be a minor with a math major in the LAS college. Thus, impact on employment won’t really be known for about four years. Created as a cooridinated effort between the math department in LAS and computer science department in engineering, hope is that it will become as recognized, or at least close, as the current computer science major in engineering. For required courses for the statistics and computer science major see: [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer) It is by no means easy. Basically you can take the same comp science courses that comp sci engineering majors take and don’t have to take physics and chemistry courses that the engineering degree requires; however, you need to take more upper level math and statistics courses than an engineering major would take.</p>
<p>My current major is Math/CS and I hope to transfer to the college of engineering next year to have CS my major~~</p>
<p>Career prospect: I really didn’t know anything about this university till I was speaking to my cousin who has a lot of tech positions under him, and was commenting about the difficulty in hiring comp sci grads that met his organization’s needs. He went on to say that the two schools he had the best success with - his tier 1 - were Waterloo and Urbana-Champaign, and not the ones I expected. I don’t know how widespread this opinion is in industry, but I imagine career prospects out to he good.</p>
<p>Are there any comments for the statistics courses?</p>
<p>How difficult is it to transfer from the Statistics and Computer Science major (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) to the Computer Science major (College of Engineering)?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Stats/CS majors are eligible for the EWS and printing?
The EWS website says “Mathematics/CS and Statistics” and another page just says “Mathematics/CS.”</p>
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