@ucbalumnus Also, one cannot boldly trust everything that is written on UCB’s website. With all respect to UCB, they carry no responsibility for their graduate’s future employment what-so-ever. At the same time it’s obviously to their advantage to sell BA the best way they can, because this is how they MA-KE MO-NEY. CS is a hip degree these days - everybody wants it, but not everybody understands physics, chemistry, and advanced math. So, how do we bring more CS students in? Right! We tell them that BA is just like BS, but with music and philosophy instead of physics and chem. Problem solved.
You just read this:
“Some students choose EECS because they feel that a B.S. degree is more prestigious than a B.A. This is not a good reason; any CS degree from Berkeley is prestigious enough! If, in addition to CS, you’re also interested in philosophy, or literature, or mathematics, or music, you should probably choose the L&S CS curriculum”.
Do you really believe that in a real world anyone would care about your interest in philosophy, when it comes to employing you as a software engineer/qa engineer/software architect/even DBA?