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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineering and CS majors can work in many industries including going to law school and taking jobs at investment banks, no need for them to be humanities majors[/quote]

They don’t often have the other soft skills necessary to complete those jobs though. So they would never be hired to begin with.[/quote]

Actually, engineering majors are often the best read and most empathetic kids you'll meet these days. Because they are smart and they  are curious. At my kid's top 20 school, the engineering majors are highly recruited by MBB and Wall Street. So I think your assumptions are very dated. It's not 1987 anymore. The smart kids aren't going into history or political science or other soft majors these days. Engineering is vacuuming a lot of the talent now. Whether it's the right fit for everyone is a different discussion. I would never encourage anyone who doesn't have the aptitude and discipline to choose engineering. It is a very tough major everywhere. [/quote]
No need to overdo it. The big reason so many students are majoring in STEM is the shift by institutions to make STEM accessible. CS, particularly, has been softened to play-doh at many institutions and you can coast through a degree with the hardest math class maybe being an application-based linear algebra course. Smart kids still major in any and everything, and there's many social science students going into banking/finance and consulting.[/quote]
It's actually surprising how little you need to do a CS major at these schools.

Williams: one math course (Discrete), intro course/intro data structures, two core courses (only one in algorithms), and 3 electives...that is hardly a CS degree. That is just baby software engineering bootcamp; you might even learn more in a boot camp.[/quote]

A CS degree from Williams sounds good to me. [/quote]

They are well trained given this little blurb from their CS page:

"In just the last several years we have had students admitted to such top computer science graduate schools as M.I.T., Carnegie-Mellon University, Yale University, Cornell University, CalTech, Stanford, University of California-Berkeley, New York University, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, University of Rochester, and the University of Massachusetts."[/quote]
I would venture to guess that the larger programs primarily focus on employer outcomes in their marketing. Do you think a SLAC necessitates a graduate degree?[/quote]

The majority of heads of research divisions in engineering private industry have graduate degrees most often phD. A BS in engineering leads most often to a mid-level engineering job(save the startup ceo/engineers). Phd outside of academia is becoming the norm the past 8-10 years. The exceptions are in their 40s or they came from super-top engineering programs which have the leadership skills as well([b]Stanford, MIT, cmu, penn, harvard, princeton, Berkeley[/b] )[/quote]

Only 3 of the schools you listed are Top 5 Engineering.  The list is MIT, Stanford, Berkley, Georgia Tech and Cal Tech.  In that order according to USNW https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc[/quote]

I’d rather listen to what the industry is saying over a magazine. [/quote]

OK.  https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering
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