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My school offers a BA or BS in CS. With a BA CS + BA Math it would take 5 semesters to graduate - I would take Fall 09 off to get more work experience and/or travel. A BS CS would require a full three years in school and I'd have to pay for that extra semester, but CS wise it would be more...

I've shyed away from thinking of majoring in computer science because of the whole outsourcing stigma, but bls.gov paints a very rosy picture of software engineering (as can be seen here). What are your thoughts on this and a major in comp sci?

How important is it? I'm planning on majoring in materials science; I just looked on the abet website and neither Caltech nor Rice are certified, so I'm hoping it's not that big a deal since my school is one of the above mentioned.