cs minor --> software engineer?

demoz
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:21:41 +0000

I’m currently sophomore at UC - Berkeley going down the business major route, but I’m not feeling my business major much anymore and I’d prefer to do CS. The only problem is that I think it’s a little too late for me completely switch majors so I’m thinking of a minor. My question is: will a minor in CS be sufficient enough to obtain a software engineering job, or jobs that regular cs majors would get?

Through the minor, I would’ve taken important practical classes such as compute security, databases, software engineering, and operating systems. Compare to a cs major, I would only miss some theoretical classes such as algorithms and the likes.

As far as aptitude is concerned, I’ve aced my math and an intro to comp. sci. class as a freshman when I was deciding between majors so I think I more or less at least will be somewhat ready to handle the course load.