[dkrich]

For better or for worse, we live in a society where higher education does not teach you a trade. That is, when you leave college and start your first job it really won't matter too much whether you studied CS, Philosophy, or the Harlem Renaissance because you'll spend the first six months of your working life learning how to do the job anyway.

To state the obvious, I would say don't major in Computer Science if you aren't genuinely interested in it. There are many different kinds of businesses to start and simply knowing how to program doesn't really make you any more likely to found a successful one. Even if it did, you don't need to study it in college. While I believe that learning the fundamentals in college is the best way, a person of above-average intelligence with a desire to learn could become a serviceable programmer in a matter of months with nothing more than a computer and a few books.

When you start college you do crazy things like envision a path to success that relies on specific factors that you will soon realize really didn't make any difference. In short, your major will have a predictive rate of about 0% of an impact on your success after college and that's especially true if you are going to start a business.