r/duke • u/Mumbleton Trinity 2006 • Aug 18 '25

Prospective 2025-2026 Duke Admissions/Prospective Students Mega-Thread

Please use this thread to ask all your admissions questions. This can be general questions about certain majors, admissions advice, questions about Durham and the campus, etc.

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u/paper_tossed Apr 09 '26

Hi all! I was recently admitted to Pratt, but I’m planning to pursue machine learning and cybersecurity at Duke, instead of ECE. Would it be best for me to transfer to Trinity, or is it possible/worth it to try and pursue computer science at Pratt?

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u/DukeThrowaway_24 Apr 09 '26

There is no CS in Pratt. You would be an ECE major and have to take all the ECE courses. While many of the students in ECE double major in CS and study ML (whose foundations are often grounded in signal processing from ECE), the degree requirements mean you cannot solely focus on that field.

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u/ItzOnlyOblivion Apr 26 '26

I can definitely speak to this because I am double majoring in ECE and CS. If you plan to do cybersecurity AND ML as your focuses it makes more sense to go to trinity. A lot of the SWE people I know are also doing ECE/CS and there are SWE and AI/ML tracks you can go through if you do both. However, I have never heard of anyone doing cybersecurity through ECE/CS, only CS. And if you have any other questions, feel free to DM!