<p>My two top interests are engineering and Business. but i'm really stuck between both worlds. Actually I feel like my true heart lies with engineering b/c i love math and science. 800chem,800IIc. plus: i'm not very good at writing (according to my essays at school), a skill much needed in business? I doubt i'm great at speech either. There are just a few things (which sound inane) that draw me to business.</p>
<p>Business schools have a greater guy to girl ratio. Engineering schools have barely any schools at all. I can't live without girls!</p>
<p>I hear that engineering students get barely any party/free time. I'm smart but i'm not an absolute geek. I love having fun and doing all sorts of crap. Does a business major require less work usually?</p>
<p>Sure engineering majors make plenty of money (usually almost a hundred grand?) but... that's not enough for me? Don't business majors make more money?</p>
<p>I really don't know much about business. i'm sure it could be just as interesting if i find more about it. </p>
<p>***A few more questions:</p>
<p>Briefly tell me what you know about business majors and its pros/cons.</p>
<p>What do you think of an Engineering Major/ Business Minor?</p>
<p>My dad works as an engineer, and the reality of the engineering/management relationship is freakishly like the jokes made in Dilbert. IMO, an engineering who is good /decent with people (as it seems you may be. You sound like me) will be able to launch ahead of other engineers IF he/she wants to step into management and IF he/she is willing to work to get it. </p>
<p>That said, the business major works for some, but I would go with what you enjoy. If you really like science and engineering, then go for it. With hard work (yes, harder and more rewarding than business IMHO) you can become a manager with an engineering degree. My dad highly respects his manager because his manager started as an engineer, but rose to take on managment and engineering together. However, truth is, some (including my dad) have been offered management postions but do not take them because of the joys of engineering and the pitfalls of micromanaging.</p>
<p>If you go to most major universities, there will be equal amounts of men and women, barring schools like Rose-Hulman, etc. </p>
<p>Some physics and engineering majors go to Wall Street. People with analytical skill are very respected, especially from schools which are good and tough.</p>
<p>I don't know you, but as someone who has also considered this, I am dead set on engineering. IMO, engineers can be businessmen, but businessmen can't jump into engineering.</p>
<p>You don't need to major in business to go into business. Example: Harvard does not offer business. Does that mean no one from Harvard goes into business? Absolutely not. Many liberal arts majors go into business. Plenty of engineers get an MBA after a few years. I think engineering major business minor is your best bet.</p>
<p>"If you go to most major universities, there will be equal amounts of men and women, barring schools like Rose-Hulman, etc. "
True, but the specific college of engineering have ratios just as bad as techie schools like rose hulman.</p>
<p>Food for thought: If you look at all the top level executives in the Fortune 500 companies, over half of them had undergrad engineering degrees before getting MBA/Grad Degree.</p>
<p>"But MIT and like schools (Cornell too I believe) aim to admit equal numbers into their engineering programs."</p>
<p>You mean equal amounts of men and women? Cornell's ratio is about 3:1, 27:73. Women may get a slight edge, but engineering schools will not sacrifice that much to get more women, and there may not even be enough women applying anyway.
MIT is 57:43, pretty good for a techie school. I think there arent enough qualified women interested, and MIT gets alot of them.</p>
<p>Well, better than most. Their admit rates between the two genders are very different, evidence of their attempt to even the sexes. My bad though about the exact numbers. No one goes into engineering to meet women.</p>
<p>Major in engineering, work for a few years, and have your company pay for your MBA. Business undergrad is often seen as a weak major. You'll actually have a better chance of doing I-banking with an engineering degree - they love to see that you know programming, MathCAD, and the like. I heard somewhere that something like 1 out of 4 CEOs of companies are engineers. So forget the business.</p>
<p>As for girls: my undergrad was about 33% female in engineering. Look for schools like that, not only for the girls but because schools with a large female population in engineering tend to have a much better quality of life. </p>
<p>I believe that most MIT women are not engineers - they are in the "softer" sciences like biology.</p>
<p>"As for girls: my undergrad was about 33% female in engineering. Look for schools like that, not only for the girls but because schools with a large female population in engineering tend to have a much better quality of life. "</p>
<p>sorry, i dont' understand this. it seems to be contradictory.</p>
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<p>Admit rate tells only half the story. Statistically speaking, women who apply to engineering have higher stats than their male counterparts; women who are accepted likewise have better stats than the men. The theory is that women need the validation of the grades & SAT scores to feel like they can succeed in engineering, while men will apply anyway. I'll dig up the cite for you if you want.</p>
<p>Without having crunched the numbers compared to the overall stats, I believe the female distribution follows the overall distribution fairly closely -- there are, at any rate, more female undergrads in the School of Engineering than in the School of Science.</p>
<p>There are 55 female physics majors and 191 female biology majors. If I'm reading that chart correctly, there are probably about 800 women in engineering, and, with 54% of MIT students in engineering, there are about two or three times as many men.</p>
<p>"more female undergrads in the School of Engineering than in the School of Science."
Is that really an achievment when the school of engineering has about 12x as many students?
For engineering, undergrad female ratio is 35%. For grad its 23.6%.
Undergraduate Biology's one of the more 'feminine' majors with a 71% female ratio.
Youve got a career there in the media, manipulating numbers. ;)</p>
<p>I realize that some majors are female-heavy, and that there aren't as many females proportionally in engineering as there are in science. But ariesathena's original assertion was that "most MIT women are not engineers -- they are in the 'softer' sciences like biology", and I was just pointing out that there, in fact, are more female engineers at MIT than female scientists.</p>
<p>If you're really passionate about both areas of study and have competitive stats, you might not have to choose between the two. You should check out the Jerome Fisher M&T program at Wharton-UPenn, or just the dual degree programs in general. A business degree at the #1 business school in the world and an engineering degree at an ivy are pretty darn sweet. Plus, Penn is supposedly the party Ivy and has pretty hot girls as well.</p>
<p>Also, if you want, you can major in engineering and minor in some business-type area such as economics or finance at most schools as someone had mentioned before.</p>