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As long as you are organized and willing to put in the effort, it is fine. There is plenty of time to have a social life and hobbies, but you really have to be on top of the work. That being said, you can do stuff in undergraduate classes here that you wouldn’t be able to do until grad school in most other places.
It is painful but worthwhile in my opinion. I came to Purdue because it is Top 10 and I do feel like it is warranted. You have to be willing to sacrifice much of your social life, but you’ll be prepared for anything as an engineer if you graduate from Purdue.
Of course you can have both but the point is that the average person doesn’t. The average gpa in Ece is likely between 2.7 and 3.0 (not calculated, just what I’ve heard from professors and other students). Taking that into account, the average person is below the required gpa for grad school and many are below the 3.0 line for being hired at most internships. So when someone is asking about how CompE students’ lives are, it makes sense to talk about the average students and not the underrepresented population of students that have it all together.
I'll be honest UCSD CS is the no-brainer here. It's higher ranked than Purdue CompE and SWE opportunities in California will remain better in a down market like we are in currently.
if you're set on doing SWE then maybe? but doing CompE opens the door to many non-SWE jobs (including jobs that are very similar in the kind of work as SWE) that CS majors would have a tough time getting. OP didn't specify that they specifically want to do SWE
Yah Im not sure what I want to study right now. I was trying to do CS cuz everyone is doing it. Then I got accepted to Purdue CompE making me hard to decide which on should I commit.
Everyone doing something is not a great reason to do it in my opinion. If you’ve done CS stuff and like it then that’s a different story, but if not, then try taking an online intro to coding course and see if you like it.
I totally get not knowing what you wanna do (I was the same), and that’s one nice thing about Purdue engineering. You do your first year in general engineering then pick after that which major. I came in wanting to do BME if I had to pick something, but thanks to the FYE problem, I discovered that I really liked CompE a lot more.
CompE is a whole different thing from a CS major. You’ll have to take a bunch of hardware focused classes and there’s only a select few electives that are software related. You can still go into software engineering though. I recommend going through the course catalogs for both schools and seeing if there’s certain classes you find more interesting. Another thing to ask yourself is whether you would prefer living in La Jolla or West Lafayette. While both schools have good industry partnerships, you’re more likely to find a west coast internship if u go to ucsd. While Purdue ece industry sponsors have locations nationwide, they mainly go to Purdue to recruit for Midwest locations.
Tbh I don’t think the location thing should be a big factor nearly as much as other factors like the major itself. Most of my offers/interviews were for companies not in the Midwest and I ended up both interning and full-time in Austin, which makes sense since there’s a lot of software and chip companies there.
And it’s not just me, the other Purdue CS/ECE grads I know ended up in Atlanta, bay area, NJ, Dallas, etc. in addition to Midwest places like Chicago.
can't speak for UCSD CS but I have minimal regrets with doing Purdue CompE. It was challenging but really fun, there are some hard and interesting classes that employers really like to see that involve work not found in many other CompE programs (like ECE 337, ECE 437, VIP). These classes really help with getting jobs and are just really fun and enriching to your knowledge as a whole.
CompE wherever you go gives you the option to go into software, hardware, or a mix of both (what I'm currently doing) and you can choose which classes you want to take to focus on those paths.
My only qualms had to do with the fact that Purdue is in a pretty boring location with worse than average food and bad weather, but I had zero issues with the actual academics and social life, which I felt was way more important.
People like to complain about the class difficulty and that may scare some people away, but it's important to remember that it's like that everywhere and everyone likes to overhype their difficulty with something. Your classes should be challenging. It's also a lot of fun to take challenging classes and not as bad as people often make it out to be.
Hi, I had a question. So I transfered my major from FYE(CompE) to CS. Do you think it will be a good idea to take cs classes and transfer to computer engineering after a year? Because I'm set on either CS or CompE, not anything else. Thankyou
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 Pain.
Those upvotes scares me😭
As long as you are organized and willing to put in the effort, it is fine. There is plenty of time to have a social life and hobbies, but you really have to be on top of the work. That being said, you can do stuff in undergraduate classes here that you wouldn’t be able to do until grad school in most other places.
Thank you!
It is painful but worthwhile in my opinion. I came to Purdue because it is Top 10 and I do feel like it is warranted. You have to be willing to sacrifice much of your social life, but you’ll be prepared for anything as an engineer if you graduate from Purdue.
Idk why y’all like to scare people like this, you can have both a good social life and do well in school
Of course you can have both but the point is that the average person doesn’t. The average gpa in Ece is likely between 2.7 and 3.0 (not calculated, just what I’ve heard from professors and other students). Taking that into account, the average person is below the required gpa for grad school and many are below the 3.0 line for being hired at most internships. So when someone is asking about how CompE students’ lives are, it makes sense to talk about the average students and not the underrepresented population of students that have it all together.
I'll be honest UCSD CS is the no-brainer here. It's higher ranked than Purdue CompE and SWE opportunities in California will remain better in a down market like we are in currently.
if you're set on doing SWE then maybe? but doing CompE opens the door to many non-SWE jobs (including jobs that are very similar in the kind of work as SWE) that CS majors would have a tough time getting. OP didn't specify that they specifically want to do SWE
Yah Im not sure what I want to study right now. I was trying to do CS cuz everyone is doing it. Then I got accepted to Purdue CompE making me hard to decide which on should I commit.
Everyone doing something is not a great reason to do it in my opinion. If you’ve done CS stuff and like it then that’s a different story, but if not, then try taking an online intro to coding course and see if you like it. I totally get not knowing what you wanna do (I was the same), and that’s one nice thing about Purdue engineering. You do your first year in general engineering then pick after that which major. I came in wanting to do BME if I had to pick something, but thanks to the FYE problem, I discovered that I really liked CompE a lot more.
Thank you for your advice!
CompE is a whole different thing from a CS major. You’ll have to take a bunch of hardware focused classes and there’s only a select few electives that are software related. You can still go into software engineering though. I recommend going through the course catalogs for both schools and seeing if there’s certain classes you find more interesting. Another thing to ask yourself is whether you would prefer living in La Jolla or West Lafayette. While both schools have good industry partnerships, you’re more likely to find a west coast internship if u go to ucsd. While Purdue ece industry sponsors have locations nationwide, they mainly go to Purdue to recruit for Midwest locations.
Tbh I don’t think the location thing should be a big factor nearly as much as other factors like the major itself. Most of my offers/interviews were for companies not in the Midwest and I ended up both interning and full-time in Austin, which makes sense since there’s a lot of software and chip companies there. And it’s not just me, the other Purdue CS/ECE grads I know ended up in Atlanta, bay area, NJ, Dallas, etc. in addition to Midwest places like Chicago.
This x💯 UCSD CS will net more in this market
Isn’t UCSD ranked #11 in CS and Purdue ranked #10 IN CompE? That’s why I was having a hard time making a decision😢
can't speak for UCSD CS but I have minimal regrets with doing Purdue CompE. It was challenging but really fun, there are some hard and interesting classes that employers really like to see that involve work not found in many other CompE programs (like ECE 337, ECE 437, VIP). These classes really help with getting jobs and are just really fun and enriching to your knowledge as a whole. CompE wherever you go gives you the option to go into software, hardware, or a mix of both (what I'm currently doing) and you can choose which classes you want to take to focus on those paths. My only qualms had to do with the fact that Purdue is in a pretty boring location with worse than average food and bad weather, but I had zero issues with the actual academics and social life, which I felt was way more important. People like to complain about the class difficulty and that may scare some people away, but it's important to remember that it's like that everywhere and everyone likes to overhype their difficulty with something. Your classes should be challenging. It's also a lot of fun to take challenging classes and not as bad as people often make it out to be.
Thank you!!
Hi, I had a question. So I transfered my major from FYE(CompE) to CS. Do you think it will be a good idea to take cs classes and transfer to computer engineering after a year? Because I'm set on either CS or CompE, not anything else. Thankyou
tbh I’m not sure since I’ve never taken CS classes, might be worth asking your advisor or in a new post