<p>I want to do something engineering related but I can't make up my mind. I'm interested in Mech E, Nuc E, EE, and Computer Engineering.</p>
<p>Are there any majors that will allow me to go to graduate school for multiple of these subjects. I know a biochem major can be used for almost anything health, medicine or biology related. Is there an equivalent major for engineering?</p>
<p>In short: make up your mind.</p>
<p>I suppose if you want to “keep your options open” your best bet would be EE, followed by MechE. EE has the most in common with the other 3, and MechE is just straight up pretty broad a field. NukE is a graduate field anyways, and you’d be better off majoring in EE if you want to go to graduate school for it. Computer engineering is a cross between EE and computer science. MechE has to do with mechanics (the kind you learn about in physics) and heat/mass transfer, which doesn’t involve all that many electronics. </p>
<p>For a PhD, you’ll work in depth on one specific project. For an MS, you’ll just learn about the more advanced stuff for one of them. If you think you want to do everything, you’re really just fooling yourself. Pick the one you think you’ll like most (and will have good job prospects in) and stick with it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer.</p>
<p>I don’t plan on attempting to do everything. I’m looking for a major that will give me alot of options so I can hold off on making a choice until I’m really sure what I want.</p>
<p>Figure it out now. There’s no magic moment of inspiration where you find out what you really want to do - you’ll just be in this exact same position at some point in the future.
The internet contains all the information you need to figure it out. Use it.</p>
<p>Engineering physics, my own major. 
I get to choose from eight concentrations in engineering. It’s like majoring in physics and minoring in engineering, and it prepares you for grad school in either area.</p>
<p>What others have said about reading on the internet to figure out what you want to do is completely silly. I thought I could just read about different fields of engineering and somehow know what I wanted to do and thought I knew EXACTLY what I wanted going into undergrad… I was wrong. Once you start taking classes, you will figure out that you really like things you thought you would hate and vice versa (also what you’re good at). That is the only way, actually taking classes and getting involved in research.</p>
<p>I started in engineering but switched to physics because I fell in love with the intro physics/calc sequence. I also was like you and wanted to keep my option open. You can get into nearly any engineering grad program with a physics degree, and you’ll have a much better theoretical/mathematical foundation to build from than the engineers. You may have to take make up a few basic engineering classes but if you pick your electives right, it may only be a class or two (or none at all). </p>
<p>I would say just pick one of the engineering to start and see how your interests develop in the first year. You will be able to switch after the first year or two without any trouble.</p>
<p>Engineering/Applied physics is the general study of applied science / engineering science, but it’s more theoretical and less applied than any of the specific disciplines (that’s why it’s “general study”). Applied (or pure if you wish) math would be a good second choice. Yes, math has no “direct” applicability to engineering, the study doesn’t govern physical principles in the way that physics does and you won’t learn about “engineering”, but you study and learn about the abstract reasoning that most of the known stuff is explained in (=math), which enables you to understand the same stuff, just coming from a more theoretical perspective, than those with more hands-on or experimental viewpoint to engineering or physics. Math is a great major, if you wish to understand the language that physics or the theory of engineering is written in (i.e. you can pick a book and see that it’s mostly explained in mathematical concepts), but have no particular interest in the experimental, hands-on or applied study, which although form a big part of engineering (it’s more applied/experimental than theoretical in many cases, because the theories are in many cases just approximations about what really happens, thus you need practical experience and tests).</p>
<p>What minors could add to the flexibility of an engineering major?</p>
<p>Minors aren’t really that valuable as a distinction (in that you don’t benefit from having minored in X), but learning a bit extra could give you a bit of a boost.</p>
<p>Depending on the situation, you might benefit from knowledge of programming, business, chemistry+biology, important foreign languages, higher level math, and many of the EE focuses (power, systems, energy, integrated electronics etc). Definitely look into it.</p>
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<p>Excellent advise! There is lots of overlap for freshman classes in all of these fields.</p>