At the undergraduate level computer
science is available in two colleges at
Cornell University. The first is our College of Arts and Sciences.
And the second is the College
of Engineering I will describe what is
the same about the academic program in
computer science whether you pursue it
in our College Arts and Sciences or
whether you pursue it in Engineering.
And I'll also describe what's different about computer science relative to which
College you pursue it in. The goal of this video will be to give
you enough information so that you can
begin to make a preliminary decision
about which college you would like to send an application to.
Noting of course, that you can only apply to one college at Cornell.
So you ultimately have to make a choice
if you're interested in computer science
between pursuing CS in Arts and Sciences or CS in our
College of Engineering. So what is the same about computer science
at Cornell whether you pursue it
in our College of Arts and Sciences or
whether you pursue in Engineer. What's the same is,
what I call, the academic trunk of the
tree and these are the academic courses
that are core to the computer science
curriculum. So the computer science
classes that are available
to pursue a computer science degree are
the same whether you pursue them in the
College of Arts and Sciences or whether
you pursue them in the College of
Engineering. So that's one main
similarity.
The second similarity are the faculty that
teach those courses we don't have a
separate faculty of computer science in
our College of Arts and Sciences
and a different faculty in our College
of Engineering. It's the same faculty
and they're housed in Gates Hall which
is located on the Engineering Quad.
So that's what's the same the core
courses in computer science and the
faculty that teach those classes.
What's different about computer science
in these two colleges and this is really
where you have to focus your attention.
What is different about them is if you
pursue computer science in our College
of Arts and Sciences you will receive a bachelor of arts degree.
If you pursue computer science in
our College of Engineering
you'll receive a bachelor of science
degree. We've looked, we've researched
this and there are really no discernible
outcome differences between a bachelor
of arts degree in computer science
and bachelor of science degree in
computer science. The outcomes in terms of graduate school
opportunities and employment
opportunities are precisely the same
whether you receive a B.A in CS or a B.S.
in CS.
So you have to note that difference but
it's not really an operative difference.
What is also different about computer
science in the two colleges
is really the core the courses that you
build around that academic trunk of the tree.
So the elective classes that you build
into your curriculum will be discernibly
different between the two colleges.
If you are pursuing computer science in
our College of Arts and Sciences
your elective classes will be more
social science, humanities based.
If you pursue computer science in
our College of Engineering
you will absolutely have access to the
other six colleges and schools at
Cornell and the courses that they offer.
But your electives in computer science
may be more technically focused.
So that's really where you focus your
attention in terms of deciding what's
the right place for me
to pursue computer science at Cornell. If
you're more of
a liberal arts, social science, humanities
type of person
then you should probably should be
submitting an application to our College
of Arts and Sciences for computer
science.
If you're more technically focused you,
probably should be looking at the
College of Engineering and submitting
your application for admission
to the College of Engineering at Cornell.
I hope this is helpful
if you have questions by all means
please email us we'd be happy to help in
any way that we can.
Thank you.
