<p>I was just wondering what you guys thought would be a better course of action: to study chemistry as an undergrad and go on to chemical engineering in grad school, or to do chemical engineering undergrad and grad. Which would be harder to do? Which would make more money in the long run?</p>
<p>And if possible would double majoring in undergrad for chemistry and chemical engineering be a better idea?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>I'm assuming you want to be a chemical engineer? Then definitely stick to chemE undergrad to chemE grad. There really is no point to double with chem and chemE. It wouldn't be too hard to, since you have to take a lot of chem courses anyways*, but as a chemE you really don't need to know a terrible amount of chemistry. I mean the concepts are nice to know, you can argue they give you a good background for chemE, but you don't really need it. So I would just stick with chemE undergrad, chemE grad. ChemE's have very good starting salaries, so don't worry about that. I think there is always a market for them. </p>
<p>*Chem classes chemE's have to take:
-General chemistry (1 and 2)
-Organic chemistry (1 and 2)
-Analytic chemistry 1
-Physical chemisry (1 and 2)
-All the labs associated with the courses (and labs suck btw) </p>
<p>So obviously you learn quite a bit of chemistry as a chemE, so it's not useful to double.</p>
<p>ok, thanks for the info.</p>