Does a PhD minor degree in CS mean anything?
I am a PhD student in Mathematics at a top target graduate school. I have taken several CS courses but when I applied for an additional MS degree in CS here this year, I was rejected. To re-apply next year, I would have to re-take my GRE test, which is a pain. Instead, I can just get a Ph.D minor degree in CS, which is guaranteed to get approval. My question is, does a PhD minor degree in CS mean anything for landing a job? Is a MS degree so much better that it is worthwhile to re-take the GRE test and re-apply maybe next year?
Here is what I think as a lay college student:
Any monkey can learn how to code. The most famous people in CS never got a degree - they learnt how to do it themselves.
Now what any monkey can not do is get a PhD in Math. In fact, very very few monkeys have the intellectual firepower to do a frigging PhD in Math.
So, I think you are worrying about a non-issue. In fact, from what I have seen the quants are major quant firms like Citadel are usually Math/Physics PhD's who have knowledge of C++/R.
Found this profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wei-chen/25/a39/97
I expect @"IlliniProgrammer" will chime in on this and he'll probably contradict me, but he's the expert.
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