<p>Can anyone give me an idea of how many freshman coming in as engineering majors stay with it versus transfering out of engineering? When they transfer out, why do they do it: too hard? not interested in the subject? other? What do they typically transfer into?</p>
<p>probably cuz they can get into better schools later on?</p>
<p>A lot of students transfer out of engineering. Your questions is hard to answer since many random factors play into it. However, engineering does scare students away by its load of mathematics, complexity, and difficulty. Having a huge course load, students may find it asking for too much effort. You may find yourself not being able to handle engineering because it just isn't your "thing." Engineering is known to be one of the hardest undergraduate majors. Engineers usually get the highest pay right out of undergraduate too. It mostly boils down to the particular student, though.</p>
<p>Thanks. Would you say half of incoming engineering majors switch out?</p>
<p>I would say the more popular engineering fields like EE and CS would have about 50% of the students switching to another engineering major or dropping out of engineering. I'm not sure though.</p>