Hi
I’m planning to double major in computer science and economics and am torn between Georgia tech and university of Rochester. Rochester is offering a very attractive scholarship and Georgia’s tech computer science program is fantastic. I am looking for an intellectually challenging course, good faculty and i have little /no knowledge of programming/cs but am great at understanding and doing math.
GT is probably better for CS but worse for economics (appears to use no calculus). But what net prices?
The economics major at GT requires two semesters of calculus.
I agree - what are your costs? And what kind of environment do you want to be in? GT is 70% male and an environment that is very focused on engineering and technical majors, with a small liberal arts program. University of Rochester is more your traditional liberal arts & sciences university.
However, the economics courses themselves do not list any math prerequisites other than some requiring a statistics course (that does not list any math prerequisites). For example, intermediate microeconomics and intermediate macroeconomics typically lists calculus or higher math prerequisites, but does not at GT:
https://oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/bwckctlg.p_disp_course_detail?cat_term_in=201405&subj_code_in=ECON&crse_numb_in=3110
https://oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/bwckctlg.p_disp_course_detail?cat_term_in=201405&subj_code_in=ECON&crse_numb_in=3120
At uni of Roch I’ve got 20000 plus 4500 research grant, each, per year. At Georgia tech-no scholarship for internationals. So Roch cost 35000 totally. Gtech 45000 totally. By costs, both are fine, but Future prospects of scholarship seem much higher at uroch.