<p>Hi I am interested in either Mechanical or Civil Engineering. However i would like to come back after completing undergrad and get an MBA. I've heard doing business and engineering together is not a good idea so that's why. Which combination of the two would be the better choice? (In terms of pay, convenience, compatibility etc)</p>
<p>ME is the most versatile undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>It really depends upon what you eventually want to go into... Pick whichever field interests you, both types of engineers are pretty employable...</p>
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<p>I believe that the reason people say that is because, quite frankly, double majors in general are not particularly valuable. Employers don't really care about if you double major. You are probably better off just taking the time you would have spent in doubling and using it to instead get a master's degree.</p>
<p>Trying to do both a business and engineering major is generally very difficult assuming the particular college allows it. Engineering has so many required courses that it generally fills your schedule and thus trying to do business also means you are a glutton for punishment and usually means going well beyond four years (even engineering majors very often go beyond four years just to finish the requirements for an engineering degree). However, there are engineering programs, sometimes called general engineering, sometimes something else, where the program is actually a mix of engineering and business, although usually more of the former, and you may look into that although the route often taken for engineers who then want business is undergrad engineering followed eventually by an MBA.</p>
<p>As to mechanical or civil, I agree with above -- go for the one you like.</p>
<p>I don't know what your grade level is, but if you haven't started college or are a freshman UT-Mccombs has a integrated program-Engineering Route to Business. You get to take 4 or 5 engineering courses with 3 or more business courses (doesn't include the ones you have to take; managment, finance, market, accounting...etc). This is what I'm doing -Civil Engineering to Accounting</p>
<p>Generally engineering is filled with work-intensive courses. Plus many schools have co-op program for the student to ge some experience of the work place before he/she graduates. Given all this, I think it is not wise for any engineering student to try to do a combo major or take up a minor. Learn the engineering subjects very well during your undergraduate because that is the only time you get any significant amount of time to learn the basics which are hard to begin with. If you graduate with half-baked knowledge you are doomed forever unless you quickly get into some non-engineering field. And that would be a problem for many people.</p>
<p>Industrial Eng and MBA is the best combination because I E is related to businees management. And most I E's get an MBA.</p>
<p>I agree with IE/MBA combo.</p>
<p>If you have an IE degree and then go for an MBA and say have Operations Research or Project Management as your MBA concentration, you would be taking a lot of "graduate-level version" of courses you had as an undergrad.</p>
<p>No need making grad school all that hard. Grab the MBA and cash in.</p>
<p>would it be smart to have a CS/MBA combo? is that combo common? does it make sense? what could you do with it?</p>
<p>a tech BS (including CS or others) is good pre-MBA. However, in any case, you should plan on work experience before the MBA (say 5 years) in which you can hopefully get rapid promotions/demonstrate leadership experience.</p>
<p>two companies that come to mind are Raytheon (which gives a chance at promotions after one year) and General Electric (EEDP, OMLP, FMP) although many of the bigger companies have leadership stuff if you seek it out. Small firms could work too but make sure its a growing company so that if you perform well you could have a chance at a management role on a new project/new division/etc as the company grows.</p>
<p>Hmph, if I had to say, it would, in order, be Biomedical (so much booming interest), Electrical (because a EE is so applicable to anything), or Computer Science (my school even offers a combo, 4-year, CS/Business Administration major)</p>