I work for a big national lab. Bs/ms in cs. Take a hard science major as well (make the cs a minor or double major). The best programmers/CS people I know are

I work for a big national lab. Bs/ms in cs. Take a hard science major as well (make the cs a minor or double major). The best programmers/CS people I know are cross-disciplinary and are able to adapt CS approaches to hard problems in other fields.