<p>Hey,
Lots of the schools I'm applying to offer a Computer Science major in their school of engineering, as well as their Arts & Science's school. I really want to know what the difference between going for either of them would be? Is the difference school specific? (Like for e.g some say that CS from the EECS dept. at Berkeley is valued more than CS from L&S)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>At UC Berkeley, as far as I know CS department is part of College of Engineering. They don’t offer two CS degrees as you implied.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can generalize the value of CS vs. CE. It depends on the university and your personal interest. The main difference is that you can skip taking a few hardware centric courses if you do CS but then you will have to take a few hard core math (or theoretical CS) courses.</p>
<p>EDIT: I looked up UC Berkeley site and I can understand your confusion.</p>
<p>What I read is * There is no difference in the CS course content between the B.S. and B.A. programs. The difference is in what else you take: mainly engineering, or mainly humanities and social sciences. *</p>
<p>[L&S</a> Majors - Computer Science](<a href=“http://ls-major.berkeley.edu/compsci.html]L&S”>http://ls-major.berkeley.edu/compsci.html)
I dont think you understood my question</p>
<p>I’m asking about the difference between CS from College of Engineering and CS from the Arts and Scieces school. Not CS vs CE. Well I guess I’m asking what the difference is between a BA in Computer Science, and a BSE in Computer Science.</p>
<p>Ok. In my view BS in CS > BA in CS.</p>
<p>Tippu is wrong for ONCE 
:D</p>
<p>CS from College of Arts and Sciences (BA degree) doesn’t have a required thesis.</p>
<p>That’s the only difference I think.</p>
<p>ani, you are wrong. I have been wrong many times.</p>
<p>It’s CE for me :)</p>
<p>And yeah I had the same confusion/dilemma you are facing.
Some schools have different colleges for CS and CE. Others just include both of them in their engineering school.</p>
<p>The difference is not THAT school specific.
The CE major may drift more towards the CS ( software ) in some schools while it may bend toward the electrical eng. part in some… but on the whole it’s pretty much the same. </p>
<p>Anyway you get to decide your electives at the end of the first year, so you can control the amount of part that comes from CS and EE ( CE is very flexible in this sense ).</p>
<p>In most schools, it’s common for CE students to take some courses from the CS dept.</p>
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Agreed.</p>
<p>How is BS in CS>BA in CS? In terms of depth of the subject, or in terms of job prospects?</p>
<p>^ In terms of job prospects.</p>
<p>Alas, I was wrong again.</p>
<p>Tippu, visit TiT. I have announced something there.</p>
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<p>Yes, I saw it. I am so happy for you. Again, congrats.</p>