PhD in Education or Computer Science?

cjarraya
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 01:54:37 +0000

I’ve been thinking about pursuing a Ph.D. after I’m done with undergrad. I want to pursue a Ph.D. for no reason other than I really enjoy learning and doing research. During undergrad, I will be majoring in computer science with two minors in data science and education at UNC-Chapel Hill. I want to do research in the realm of edtech (creating software to help students learn, creating analysis tools to track student learning, etc). My question is, should I pursue a Ph.D. in Education or Computer Science? I heard that you can “concentrate” your research on a sub-topic, so I guess a different way of putting the question would be, should I do my Ph.D. in Computer science and concentrate my research in Education or the other way around? Any help would be greatly appreciated!