I’ve been trying to decide what the best engineering degree based of growth and job satisfaction. From what I’ve seen Biomedical Engineering is the fastest growing, but it also has a very small number of jobs; civil and mechanical are probably the most opportunity and flexibility. In your opinion what is the best engineering degree to pursue?
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The best engineering degree would be the one that interests you the most. An engaged student is a successful student.
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Petroleum Engineering has always been one of it not the highest paid out of undergrad. Only a few schools offer it. The ones I know are LSU and a few Texas schools.
Lot’s of folks don’t want to do Petroleum Eng. because you have to travel out to rigs but that would be an appeal to me. For the record, did not go the engineering route and college is way in my past.
It is a bit of a boom/bust industry but near or over six figure salaries out of undergrad.
Cookie dough or peanut butter.
The more generalized engineering degrees (like civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical) offer more flexibility. My degree is in chemical engineering and I worked in polymer production, gasoline additives production, and oil & gas facilities. Also decision analysis and business planning, but that was later. My ChemE college friends ended up working all over. Light bulbs, food, paper products, pharmaceuticals, all kinds of paths. My H is a petroleum engineer, which limits his industry options but he’s still done a variety of things in his career. Nuclear, biomedical and other specialized engineering majors can be a great entry point to specific industries but there’s a risk there too. An example: in the mid-90s to maybe the early 2000s there weren’t enough petroleum engineers graduating, so it became pretty common for companies to hire other disciplines to do petroleum engineering work. I personally worked with quite a few chemical and mechanical engineers doing PE work, though the PEs did have an initial edge with all the geology and oilfield-specific knowledge they’d learned in college. Once PE became a more popular major it became harder for all of those PE students to find jobs, especially when the oil downturn hit and companies reduced their hiring. Oil companies might have been very happy to take chemical/mechanical/civil engineers and have them do PE work, but non-oil companies (pharmaceutical, food, etc) aren’t eager to hire PEs to work in their plants or labs. The best students in any major will get jobs of course, but it’s important to understand the placement figures for each major you’re considering. If you want to get a specialized engineering degree, just make sure you do your homework researching universities.
As posters above alluded to with the ice cream comments, there is no “best” kind of engineering. I loved chemical engineering and likely would have been miserable in electrical engineering (my “circuit design for non-EE” course was torture). Does that make ChemE better than EE? For me, sure. For you, or anyone else? Definitely not. In companies and labs everywhere you will find people happy with their choice of engineering degrees and jobs.
Oh yeah, looks like @MaineLonghorn and I think alike.
During oil boom times. The opposite is more likely the case during oil bust times.