A CS professor at my school graduated after 2000 with a bachelor's in creative writing. She did do her graduate studies in CS, however. So it's still possible t

A CS professor at my school graduated after 2000 with a bachelor's in creative writing. She did do her graduate studies in CS, however. So it's still possible to be a professor without studying the field at an undergraduate level. However, she certainly had formal training in CS, just not at the undergrad level.