<p>Is there a difference between these two degree paths? It seems to me like the EE w/Cs minor would be at least as capable as a CE major at pretty much anything.</p>
<p>I think the easiest way to answer that question is to look at the courses you’d have to take for each curriculum at the school(s) you’re looking at, and see whether or not the EE/CS covers the same stuff as the CE.</p>
<p>(I imagine that EE/CS is probably close to a superset of the CE. That’s guessing.)</p>
<p>If it makes a difference, most of the top Computer Engineering schools listed under the USNews rankings don’t explicitly have a Computer Engineering major, rather, they offer some sort of EECS program.</p>
<p>Many schools that I know have an ECE program (CMU, UMass Amherst, WPI). ECE does not have a CS component necessarily while EECS does. ECE has to do more with circuit design and analog/digital electronics than regular EE. Most “EECS” program (Michigan, Case, MIT, UCB) have similar Computer Engineering courses in thier program. There is also CSE (U of Wasington) which is Computer Science and Engineering) Your program of study can be as interdisciplinary as you want.</p>
<p>What I said was really convoluted but what I meant to do was to counter acTilde’s point. UW is a very good CE program and I don’t think that they are worse than most programs named “EECS” or “ECE”. I don’t think the name of the program has anything seriously to do with the quality.</p>
<p>The main difference comes when you choose your upper-division courses.</p>