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Computer Science 26w
do people care abt BS vs BA in compsci? those of you that are employed please weigh in! Seems the only difference for me will be not taking calc 2 other than that the rest of my program is damn near 1:1
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Anonymous 26w

BA vs BS doesn’t matter for a lot of companies, but it does for some and especially for some career trajectories. A BA is probably a non starter for data science, ai, ml, quant, etc type jobs. I believe the government also is picky about it. If you don’t mind either way and the only difference is calc 2, the BS is your best bet in terms of robustness. But it’s not a major deal either way if you just want general SWE jobs.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 26w

Oh yeah, also matters for some higher education / academia stuff.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 26w

love to hear it, Im trynna go for something in cyber as well and from what Ive been gathering shouldve been obvious from the start: HAVING a degree + skills, the details are secondhand

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