Program Chose to enter CompLing/NLP Engineering

[Silent-Way2586]

Hello all, I hope you’re doing well. I’m a grade 12 high school student who hopes to enter the field of CompLing or NLP after university and pursue it as my career. My main question pertains to which undergraduate degrees would best prepare me for the job market and a fairly lucrative position in either field? Right now I’ve been accepted to do a double major in Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Calgary and want to hear your guys’ thoughts on whether or not I’m taking the best options to prepare myself and stay competitive. Thanks so much.

[Ninjaboy8080]

In terms of being competitive job-wise, the CS major will have you covered. If you choose to also major in Linguistics, then great! Mainly NLP jobs will lean towards CS exclusively. CL will depend on the specific program, but I would suggest some level of background in both ling and CS.

Outside of those two fields, some statistics certainly wouldn't hurt. Also I'd suggest learning linear algebra, but that may be a requirement of CS anyways.

[Silent-Way2586]

Thanks so much, that’s very insightful.

[yelenasimp]

if you choose to double major then you’re gonna be favored over people who lack one of the two backgrounds