[mpdehaan2]

I think in general the field (maybe not HR departments) is pretty accepting of people with alternative majors even outside of engineering - I know some great folks who had music or art history degrees.

Your challenge I think is to show initial work for job acquisition purposes, so being able to point to a very technical side project on your GitHub (and of course resume) for your chosen language will be a very good idea.

What language you choose depends on what field you want to get into, specially. Python is used in various places including web and database applications, but ultimately I'd say shoot for something you like. If you can find enough companies you like that work in X language, that can be a good way to go.

Good companies will assume smart folks can pick up other tools, but I think your main hurdle is going to be showing something that counts as sufficient "equivalent experience" -- and that should be possible to do.

College is highly valuable, but all of college C.S. is not always directly applicable.