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- From: shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks)
- Subject: Re: B.S. Degree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.232802.22588@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
- Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
- References: <1992Nov18.033642.12612@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <BxzCKy.JtC@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:28:02 GMT
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- In article <BxzCKy.JtC@acsu.buffalo.edu> rapaport@acsu.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) writes:
-
- >But, in any case, why do you think it matters whether your degree says
- >"BS" or "BA"? Do you think one is "better" than the other?
-
- Well, the corporations think it matters. Go knock on the door at
- GM, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, or Honeywell (and these are the ones
- I know of) with a BA, and you will be given the bum's rush. It's
- a corporate "cookbook" thing. No BS - no job.
-
- >I urge most students to go for the BA, since it requires them to know
- >something besides CS and math.
-
- And BOY, do they need it. While at McDonnell, I was stunned to hear
- the University of Missouri - Rolla grads brag that they never had
- to read a book or write a paper. None of that "fuzzy study" shit
- for _these_ geniuses. And it showed.
-
- >At MIT, I'm told, English majors get a BS in English, so I'm not
- >sure that what the degree is called really matters.
-
- Only if you're looking for a job at one of the corporations. The US
- military academies operate the same way - BS is what it says on the
- diploma. Doesn't matter what you focused on (although you don't
- get many electives there anyway.) That has been my experience over
- the last 10 years. I recommend a BSEE, then get your BSCS or MSCS.
- Then you can work for anyone.
-
- Mark Shanks
- shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com
-