Junior & Senior CS Curriculum Plan for UIUC - Realistic?

anom217
Fri, 04 May 2012 15:05:05 +0000

“UIUC offers a software engineering certificate in addition to the BS in Computer Science for undergrads, and that’s what I’m planning to fulfill with this plan (SE I & II are required.) Should I not go for that?”

If that’s what you’re interested in, I would definitely go for that. You’ll learn things that will be useful on the job that aren’t often covered in a BS CS degree. Doing an actual project will be very beneficial.

I had just wanted to point out that the programming and more “technical” courses you take are what’s more important when you’re starting out. Once you move beyond junior software engineer and higher, software engineering skills become increasingly important.

So you should be fine. I’m just alarmed by the increasing number of BS Software Engineering degrees which have a weaker curriculum in the more technical CS courses. About as useful as a BS in business administration, which is generally pretty useless.