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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another piece of info for considering paths at VT -- in their first destination report you can see what jobs different majors get -- CS vs CMDA vs Statistics.
https://fds.career.vt.edu/EmployerList/ChoiceN?cohort=2021-2022

CS major job titles (there are a lot more of these) are heavily in software engineer or software developer jobs. CMDA and Statistics job titles include some of that but also a lot of data scientist, data engineer, data consultant, analyst. [/quote]

This. OP, As you can see, opinions are all over the place. Look at the Outcomes or First Destinations reports and see if that's what your kid wants to do and go with that program. Your kid should do the CS program at Tech and add a CMDA minor (it's called something else for a minor).

Every job is at risk with AI. In general, the smarter kids go for the hardcore majors. Do you honestly believe they are less likely to have the ability to pivot compared to the less smarter kids who select softer majors? I don't think so. One could argue that all of the content taught in a History program are on the internet (and have been for a couple of decades). Hasn't stopped kids from going to school for History and getting jobs.[/quote]

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