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Whichever school it is, it better be a BS. You don't want to know how lame it is to explain why you got a BA in CS.
by nuggien 18y ago
Whichever school it is, it better be a BS. You don't want to know how lame it is to explain why you got a BA in CS.
- justindz 18y agoWouldn't this depend entirely on who considers your application or interviews you? If so, what you might be suggesting is that, on average, significantly more people that are likely to consider you for CS employment will be concerned by a BA than not. Have any evidence for that, or was this a personal anecdote?
- sdurkin 18y agoAlthough this may not be the case everywhere, at my school there is zero statistical difference between the ability of BA and BS students in COS to get jobs at top tech firms.
- nuggien 18y agoI didn't say it was a problem regarding people favoring BS over BA. UC Berkeley's CS program results in a BA, but I doubt there are any people out there that question the legitimacy of Berkeley CS. I'm just saying that it's lame when you have to explain to non-technical people why you got a BA in CS, while their silly undergrad Business Administration degree resulted in a BS :)