When it gets that specific your major means nothing. At all. Zip. Zilch. Don't cry just try and cope. Somewhere around 3/4's of your education will be mindless drivel like government, philosophy, calculus, and fencing. In the end you will have taken somewhere around 20 out of a 150 hours for your major that you will use in the job field. Recruiters understand that and this is why your major, whatever it is, will serve as little more than a passport to get threugh the "Must have a college degree in the computer field" checkpoints of the world.
You will not be pigeonholed because you have a certain type of degree unless that degree is extremely specific.
For my own part I'm studying CE as opposed to CS for one reason.
What comes to mind when you say Computer Scientist?
Lab coats, research, pure science, text books, dork.
Now what comes to mind when you say Computer Engineer?
Money.
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When it gets that specific your major means nothing. At all. Zip. Zilch. Don't cry just try and cope. Somewhere around 3/4's of your education will be mindless drivel like government, philosophy, calculus, and fencing. In the end you will have taken somewhere around 20 out of a 150 hours for your major that you will use in the job field. Recruiters understand that and this is why your major, whatever it is, will serve as little more than a passport to get threugh the "Must have a college degree in the computer field" checkpoints of the world.
You will not be pigeonholed because you have a certain type of degree unless that degree is extremely specific.
For my own part I'm studying CE as opposed to CS for one reason.
What comes to mind when you say Computer Scientist?
Lab coats, research, pure science, text books, dork.
Now what comes to mind when you say Computer Engineer?
Money.