<p>At Berkeley, EECS is generally thought to be more selective than L&S. EECS frosh enter declared in the major, while L&S frosh enter undeclared. Declaring L&S CS requires completing the prerequisites with a college GPA of 3.0 or higher.</p>
<p>EECS requires additional lab science (two semesters of physics and one semester of student’s choice from a list), an additional math course, and an additional EE course. Both EECS and L&S CS give considerable student choice for junior/senior level courses, but EECS allows choice of EE and/or CS courses for those, while L&S CS requires most of them to be CS.</p>
<p>EECS is ABET-accredited, while L&S CS is not. For CS, this is mainly of concern if one wants to take the patent exam; those in non-ABET-accredited CS majors need to fulfill specific patent exam course requirements, including additional lab science courses. For employment or graduate study in CS, ABET accreditation is not important by itself.</p>