Any Software Engineers Have Advice for Potential CS Major

ucbalumnus
Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:51:53 +0000

There are a lot of “it depends” here.

For the CC route, you need to know whether the CC offers CS courses that your transfer target schools (probably state universities) accept as equivalent to their own (see their transfer credit web pages). Due to differences in the frosh/soph level CS courses at different schools, this may be less common than you think, even with good CCs in your area.

Prestigious schools do not necessarily have better CS departments and majors than less prestigious schools. Indeed, some generally prestigious schools have relatively small and weak CS departments and majors. You need to take a look at their course offerings to see if they cover the needed topics in their more advanced offerings.