I am a college student planning on double-majoring in computer science and philosophy. At the school I am planning on attending, the philosophy major has enough electives to allow for a second major, and there's a B.A. program for computer science (school website claims job prospects for this program are similar to job prospects for B.S. program) that allows for a second major. It seems like a good idea to me, but when I tell people, they look at me like I'm an idiot and don't say anything. I don't think those people realize that I've actually thought about it quite a bit. But MAYBE I'm just an idiot. Help me out, here.

 

Here are my reasons:

• I'm interested in both subjects individually; moreso, however, in philosophy, but from what I read it would be impractical to study philosophy alone without a more useful second major.
• If I go to grad school, these degrees together make it so I can get into: cognitive science, AI, robotics, all of which seem very interesting to me.
• Philosophy teaches verbal and analytical skills (philosophy majors score highest in these areas on the GRE), while computer science is better for quantitative skills, and of course the technical skills/knowledge it teaches are extremely useful. I would think that these skill sets together would make me a valuable and uniquely well-rounded employee.

 

So, tell me: what do I have right? What do I have wrong? Do you have any better ideas?

Edited July 18, 201312 yr by SaggyWax

It seems OK to me, but I have been retired for many years so do not know the job market.

So, tell me: what do I have right? What do I have wrong? Do you have any better ideas?

To a large extent you have to study what you are interested in, otherwise you will not put the nessisary effort in to it. Computer science sounds good to me.