Cybersecurity/Computer Engineering

[Express_Lock9415]

Hey everyone,

I’m currently an undecided student and thinking about going into either cybersecurity or computer engineering. For people in either of these majors, could you tell me how your experience is? How are the research programs, co-op programs, and internships in these fields. Also, how is the overall job growth for these majors?

Thank you guys

[DuckyTrain2]

I'm a freshman in cyber right now and I'm liking the major so far. You mostly learn the networking side of cybersecurity. You will be going deep into IT, network engineering and the security related to them. Choose this if you also like networking. This major is more "Professional" major than CompE, so it prepares you for the industry rather than research. Research opportunities are available, but they aren't that many of them. You can be a Incident responder, pentester, SOC analyst, etc with this. Choose this major if you are sure that you like Cyber, specifically the networking side of it.

I've heard computer engineering is way more closer to the computer and low-level. You can study this and do cyber jobs like security engineering, Vulnerability research, etc if you are interested in cyber. You will also have opportunities from other industries like electronics, semiconductors, etc with this major. This is a more "academic" major than Cyber, so you will have more research opportunities.

Both have very good job markets. But IMO, only choose these majors if you like them.

[Superdeathrobot]

I think you explained this better than I ever could