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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is becoming very interested in a career in the data science field. [b]The colleges that he will likely choose between do not offer a "Data Science" major.[/b]

Should he major in Computer Science and minor in Statistics? Or should he major in Statistics and minor in Computer Science? Does anyone have any knowledge or career experience to share?[/quote]

Not giving you a bad time, but why would your child consider a school that may not have the field of study related to career goals?[/quote]

OP here. We live in VA, and he got into VA Tech College of Engineering and was waitlisted at UVA. I suppose there is still a chance that he could get accepted at UVA and apply for the Data Science major, but it seems to be a slim one.

I appreciate all of the different opinions. The CMDA major sounds perfect on paper, but the courses on the published flowchart do not look very rigorous to me when compared to CS/Stat majors/minors. He already taken a lot of those classes already through AP and post-AP. The idea of CMDA with CS minor might need to be explored by him.

[b]He could apply rolling admission to Penn State for their Data Science major, [/b]but is it worth an extra $15,000 per year?[/quote]

Penn State has Data Science in their EECS school (Computational Data Science) and also within their School of Information Science and Tech (Applied Data Science). Which program are you talking about? The latter is more applied than the former and there's not a lot of programming involved according the students and teachers at the department. I see the former as being comparable to Virginia Tech's CMDA. Also, unless you have merit aid or need-based aid, the tuition+fees alone are about $25K more at Penn State for a total of about $100K. Of course, it's a larger school, more established, Big 10, etc. but your son is already in at CS at Tech. Why bother going OOS?[/quote]

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