What is the difference between Computer Engineering and Computer Science?

bigZeus: What is the difference between Computer Engineering and Computer Science?
I’m a freshman in college and I was planning on majoring in Computer Engineering, but unfortunately it doesn’t really seem too interesting to me, especially all the computer programming. I’m considering changing my major to Computer Science except I don’t really know what kind of career a degree in Computer Science will get me. So what is the difference between the two? Please help me out, I don’t really have too much time to ask the advisers at my university, so any help would be appreciated.

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Answer by Call me Batman
Computer science is pretty much a degree in programming.

Computer engineering focuses on computer architecture.

You could say that computer engineering is the ‘hardware’ side and computer science is the ‘software’ side of computer systems. There is some overlap between the two though.

Answer by Drew
Computer science will be more computer programming oriented than computer engineering. You will have to program in both, quite a bit actually, but in computer engineering you will do quite a bit on the hardware side of things — learning about computer architecture, embedded systems, circuit design, etc.

One thing that you should note: For the first year and a half these two majors are virtually indistinguishable (also can include Electrical Engineering in this). You will take the same math, science, and computer programming classes. After the first year and half things will change, but this can give you some time to gather more information and decide what will work best for you.