<p>I am an international student from Bangladesh but i'll be getting my immigration visa in like a month, so you can consider me a domestic student. My parents are residents of Florida and they regularly pay taxes over there( just in case anyone asks).</p>
<p>Thing is I got into Baruch College for Finance and i got into University of South Florida as well but for Chemical engineering. I had physics, chemistry and maths all my life. I also had accounting till my last year of high-school. But honestly, I don't care what I major in as long as I'm successful and have good job with a healthy salary. </p>
<p>The thing is that I'm confused which college should I go in and what should I major in when it comes to job availability in the future and salary too! I was also wondering if I'll have bad GPA's if i take engineering because grad schools are very competitive nowadays and a good gpa is a must! </p>
<p>Then there is a matter where I will live. Baruch is in NYC, the financial capital of the world and USF is in Tampa, a place about which i have the minimum idea. Where will i get a better chance of getting a job with a fair enough salary. </p>
<p>Please help me out guys as its currently the biggest factor that determines my future. Thank you :)</p>
<p>Grad school is unnecessary for a good job. Grad school is just for if you really want to do research. Plenty of people manage good GPAs in Engineering. </p>
<p>@vladenschlutte well as far as i know undergrads dont earn 100k a year that easily. Grad schools have a better chance of getting salaries like that. Am I not right? </p>
<p>And the avg GPAs for engineers in US is around 2.8 . A GPA like that wont get me anywhere to a grad school.</p>
<p>In CS 100K+ your first year is not uncommon though not automatic either. But a bachelors + 6 years experience will probably net you more in almost any circumstance than a PhD and no experience. PhD changes the kind of jobs you’ll get more than the pay you’ll get. </p>
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<p>Realistically, outside of just a few schools known for grade deflation, average Engineering GPA is more like 3.0. But yes, average undergrads aren’t going to go to grad school. If your goal is to go to grad school you gotta do better than average. </p>
<p>Should I go to Baruch College and study Finance? or should go to university of florida and study chemical engineering? which one do you think would be a better choice in terms of both salary and job availability? </p>
<p>If you’re very hard working Finance in New York may help you get an IB job which will pay a lot but is a terrible life style. You also have to be extremely competitive, as I don’t think Baruch is one that would ordinarily be on their radar. Otherwise, I think you’re probably better off with the ChemE degree from UF, though it’s very unlikely you’re going to get 100K first year out of college with that. </p>
<p>I don’t agree that the average is anywhere near a 3.0 here…not even in a math major. I go to a state school too. I’ve only known one person to have above a 3.0 other than myself so far in my two years being here as a math major (graduating in June). I study alongside some pretty bright engineering majors in the library, but they don’t have 3.0 GPA’s. Well, I have one friend who has a 3.4, but the guy is a genius. If you want to make like 60K starting, engineering is not a bad gig even for sub 3.0 students. Just don’t plan on grad school if you’re sub 3.0.</p>
<p>I think if you can get some decent GRE scores and have a 3.0 that should get you into most state school master’s programs for engineering. The few cases I’ve heard of coming from my school with high GPA’s they got really good starting salaries upwards of 90K. </p>
<p>Where do you go? I highly doubt if you go to Cal that the average GPA is going to be below a 3.0. And no where is a 3.4 going to be rare. </p>
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<p>The market (RIGHT NOW) is better for CompE majors than ChemE. That’s not to say that they won’t flip in 4 years though. The market for ChemE is more stable than for CompE, and the market for ChemE is pretty good still. </p>