BA in Computer Science vs BS in Computer Science

Ray192
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:21:08 +0000

***? My school offers BA and BS for CS, and there’s not a single employer recruiting on campus that rejects people just because they have a BA. In fact, back when my school still posted separate BA and BS salary information, the BA’s consistently received higher salaries (And no, they weren’t all bankers either). I fail to see how my lack of physics and chemistry courses hurts my programming or algorithm-design ability. Heck, my A&S courses in linguistics, behavioral economics and game theory is far more relevant to my AI concentration than 90% of courses required in an engineering curriculum.

Now, if there’s a substantial difference between the BS and BA versions of the major, there might be some concern, but just because there’s two of them doesn’t mean employers will only go for those who get BS.