<p>Have you seen this recent article?</p>
<p>[Most</a> lucrative college majors - highest starting salaries - Jul. 24, 2009](<a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/highest_starting_salaries/index.htm]Most”>Most lucrative college majors - highest starting salaries - Jul. 24, 2009)</p>
<p>Thanks for the article. :D</p>
<p>So why isn’t financial analysis up there? I thought that was pretty high too
fixed. :D</p>
<p>Interesting how a lot of people talk down on Engineering Technology when they are only making 2k less than Mechanical Engineers…</p>
<p>I also know that Petroleum Geologists get paid top dollar right out of school, as well…</p>
<p>Well, technically speaking, only 11 are engineering… unless you count “industrial”. ;p</p>
<p>Oh wait, my bad. There was also civil “engineering”…</p>
<p>Yeah but computer science can be considered engineering</p>
<p>Computer science is NOT engineering. Software engineering is its own discipline that draws upon the theories and ideas of CS. But theoretical computer science has nothing to do with programming or computers. </p>
<p>But then again, I’m sure 90+% of CS majors in college do not focus in TCS. But yeah, CS != Engineering. It’s actually closer to math…</p>
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<p>Yeah, calling a lot of these majors engineering is stretching it. EE is the only real engineering major.</p>
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<p>I don’t know why some CS majors have to be so snooty about applications. I’m no CS superstar so my analysis may be off, but it seems like all of the theory in the subject is strongly motivated by practical concerns. I think studying CS and having a disregard for it in practice would be unhealthy. If you really dislike computers and learning how they are designed and used in REAL LIFE that much, then become a math, stats, or linguistics major.</p>
<p>WOW. The chart in the article is totally different from the one in NACE’s article. o_O</p>
<p>[Salary</a> Survey: Winter 2009](<a href=“http://nace.naceweb.org/salarysurvey/sscover0109.htm]Salary”>http://nace.naceweb.org/salarysurvey/sscover0109.htm)</p>
<p>Wonder how reliable CNN is. -_-</p>
<p>Well both of my majors are in both articles, so that’s good.</p>
<p>I would definitely consider CS to be Engineering. I go to a top, public university and CS falls under Engineering. When I graduate I will earn a Bachelors of Science in Engineering. How can you say it isn’t Engineering? If your degree says B.S.E. then it’s Engineering.</p>
<p>yeah, CS is engineering. if you want to be incredibly specific and technical maybe its not, but we take just as hard a courseload, just as many units in our specialty, and in the end are qualified to work in the same fields as other engineers. plus, an employer doesn’t really care whether or not you have CS or software engineering, they do the same job at nearly every company.
and at just about every university its in the engineering department for a reason.</p>
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<p>Usually CS is in the school of engineering, so yes, it should probably be considered engineering.</p>
<p>lol. is financial “engineering”?</p>
<p>“financial “engineering””</p>
<p>more legit than anything</p>
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<p>–CS workload isn’t as hard as EE, CMPE, or ChemE. </p>
<p>–CS vs software engineering obviously isn’t a stretch for career work. You are kidding yourself if you think you’re getting a job as a traditional EE, CMPE, ChemE, ME, etc…</p>
<p>–CS is not apart of the engineering department at Georgia Tech</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say CS isn’t as hard as engineering. I would say it’s at least as hard.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s engineering, but then again I don’t think engineering is all that hard.</p>
<p>Typical battle. The CS majors say it’s engineering, the elitists say it isn’t.
This should belong in with the age old religion wars and politics debate.</p>
<p>Why does everyone have to prove how much better or harder there degree is than the next? Why can’t we just have an intelligent conversation for once? I just joined this board to get some good info from people and I am already tired of reading the stupid ass arguments about how ChemE is better than CS or how Civil isn’t nearly as hard as AA. It’s getting old QUICK.</p>
<p>lol. pardon me if this is naive, but, i never understood why it mattered if CS was ‘engineering’ or not.</p>