Double major

texansfan1
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:33:11 +0000

I believe you can double major in anything. In this case however because they are in two different colleges (Engineering vs CNS) it gets more complicated. First, you have to be accepted into both colleges and majors. Second, because these two majors are in different colleges, there are not that many lower level courses in common. This means taking a lot more credits. By this I mean if you were double majoring in CS and Math for example (both are located in CNS), then since these are both in the same college the preliminary (lower level) courses would be roughly the same. The difference would be the upper level courses specific to your major. This isn’t true when you double major in EE and CS. For example a EE major will take 2 EE specific courses during freshman year and a physics course/lab. A CS major doesn’t require any of these. So here are additional courses already. This is a drawback of having CS in a different college than Engineering. A lot of Universities have them both in the engineering college. Best thing to do is start your CS work, get top grades, and talk to an adviser. By the way, its the same issue with Math and Finance since Finance is in McCombs.

One alternative would be to major in EE- Computer Engineering, and then take the software focus area. This brings into the Computer Engineering curriculum a number of s/w classes, and is for students who want to be a Computer Engineer but work with software primarily. Finance has the same focus area approach, and math is one of the areas. You can take a Finance curriculum with a math focus (already built into the finance degree) and get your math this way. Another alternative would be a Math with CS double major. They are both in CNS so the lower level courses would be the same (thus limiting the number of unique new courses you will need to take). Math and CS are also very complementary and a good combination.