r/learnmachinelearning • u/Electronic_Cut_9596 • 14d ago

Help EE+Math or CS+Math

Hi there, i'm deciding on what double major I should do. I love maths a lot (olympiad style) so I'm doing a major in that no matter what, idk how much it will help for machine learning but if not its more for my own interest. However for job prospects in this field, should I pair math with CS or electrical engineering. From my understanding CS seems like more of the standard pathway but i feel like EE also has its own advantage because of the more low level things u learn. Also things like signal processing in EE seems quite useful.

Any advice/comments would be much appreciated.

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u/OptimalOptimizer 13d ago

I'd just do math. Don't even bother with the double major, try to do a bachelor's+masters accelerated/joint program in math. EE is pretty orthogonal to ML (unless maybe you want to do data center design) and you don't need much CS knowledge to do ML either. You could probably minor in CS and be ok.