Computer Science Options, Help us choose the right place!

CS requirements whether in Liberal Arts or Engineering are all the same. It is the other requirements that differ, so it’s really only based on personal preference at that point, so no advantage either way. It’s usually just a B.A or B.S. in CS.

Re your comment about weed out classes, any CS program in engineering will have definite weed out classes like Physics, Calc 3, Linear Algebra, Chemistry, etc. Some of those crossover in the Liberal Arts as well, so just be prepared. Some schools will allow those to be taken at a community colleges but some don’t. I don’t recall what RH criteria is but they are heavily Engineering so there will be weed out there for sure.

My daughter is in CS in an Engineering program and she chose applying to that over Liberal Arts only because her interests aligned with that. She was not interested in the humanities at all. My son is following the same path. They will take the normal gen ed requirements but not the extra humanities or foreign language requirements required. But the CS curriculums are identical.

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