Transferring into Umich, majoring in Cognitive Science?

Hey guys,

I need a lot of help. I just got into the University of Michigan for Fall 2019 as a Transfer student. At my current school, I am majoring in Computer Science, but, I have been slowly realizing that I have been losing my passion for coding and that I am more interested in studying the human- computer interaction side of things and looking into UX design.

I have been looking into the Cognitive Science major on the “computation & cognition” track and have been thinking about pursuing this and possibly minoring in Computer Science.

I have a lot of side projects on my portfolio already, and I feel as though I could be a pretty marketable candidate, but I have not been able to really find any information about possible jobs that Cognitive Science majors with a minor in CS could obtain.

Does anyone have any idea of the job outlook/ possible jobs that I could get going this route? I am interested in going into tech as well as medtech, especially (I am really interested in working on biomedical instruments/ machines and the interfaces/ programs for those). And, would say that Cognitive Science is a pretty decent major?

Thank you!

This has a lot of great information. Read it through and click on links.

They do user interfaces and ux etc

https://www.si.umich.edu/content/binh Lou

https://www.si.umich.edu/icareers/featured-umsi-employers

@Knowsstuff just FYI that first link isn’t working for me

@CAtransplant. It works but doesn’t come up fully. Just click within that link on the other things to get you to you need to go. This department does some really cool things with user interfaces etc.

Here’s UM’s School of Information career outcomes from last year https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/bachelor-science-information/career-outcomes
https://www.si.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2018%20BSI%20Employment%20Report.pdf

UMich Info Science career guide:
https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/information-science