SJSU or UW Seattle for Computer Science

ucbalumnus
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:15:40 +0000

http://cs.sjsu.edu/Programs/cs_advis/cs_advise.html#Want_to_Change_of_Major_ describes the procedure to change major to CS at SJSU. He may want to contact the SJSU CS department directly to check whether approval would be automatic if he meets the stated criteria, or if the stated criteria merely would allow him to enter a competitive admission process with no assurance of admission to the major.

The other schools are all respectable for CS, although it may be worth checking whether he is in the major or must enter another admission process into the major.

CC would presumably be the option to have a second chance at a California public university other than SJSU, right? Use http://www.assist.org to check whether course work for each target school’s CS major is available. Berkeley in particular is hard to find, since its CS 61A, 61C, and 70 have no equivalents at San Jose area CCs; Laney has 61A and Diablo Valley has 61C, but they are rather far. Four of five UCLA lower division CS courses are available, but not all at the same CC other than Laney or Chabot. Transferring without needed course work means having to take “catch up” course work after transfer, possibly delaying graduation or limiting the number of upper division courses one can take.