What aspect of Computer Science is important?

[Torie]

I'm currently a sophomore planning to major in either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and I'm wondering which major is more relevant to becoming a quant. I know Computer Science is quite important in quant work but I'm afraid that the major won't be "quantitative" enough. Also if I do pursue a degree in Computer Science what aspect of it should I focus on? AI? Systems? Theory? Database? or Computational Science?

Thanks

 

[Connor]

Do which ever interests you most, and then double major in mathematics.

 

[Joy Pathak]

I don't know what courses they offer in your EE degree but at my school EE includes Calculus 1 2 3 (upto Vector), Differential Equations, Algebra 1 and 2, C and C++ programming, and Stochastic Processes at minimum.

The Computer science only includes basic mathematics courses and lots of programming obviously.

EE is more rigorous then CS. Worse comes to worse, if you don't like Quant Finance later, you still have a good engineering degree to fall back on.

 

[bigbadwolf]

The Computer science only includes basic mathematics courses and lots of programming obviously.

CS is a hodge-podge. The math tends to be combinatorics -- enumerative and graph theory.

EE is more rigorous then CS. Worse comes to worse, if you don't like Quant Finance later, you still have a good engineering degree to fall back on.

True.