<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I've been reading a lot about all of the low-paying, effectively menial jobs offered to science majors. It seems that many people do not see a solid incentive structure to give the extra effort to pull solid grades in the more difficult and pure science majors.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if all the horror stories are as applicable to science major grads of elite institutions (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, HYP, Harvey Mudd, etc)?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Which science?</p>
<p>The ones with more math like physics, statistics, and math tend to get recruited by the finance industry, so job and career prospects are decent (and computer science is often one the majors with the best job and career prospects). Chemistry and biology don’t seem to be that great even at [MIT[/url</a>], although small numbers of those majors and physics at MIT means that the average pay fluctuates wildly from year to year. [url=<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/]CMU[/url”>http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/]CMU[/url</a>] seems to have more science majors to get more consistent averages, as does [url=<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]Berkeley[/url”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]Berkeley[/url</a>] (where Molecular and Cell Biology is the largest major, and there are a few other biology majors as well).</p>
<p>You may want to look at other universities’ career surveys:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>University Graduate Career Surveys - Career Opportunities & Internships - College Confidential Forums](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html]MIT[/url”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation.html)</a></p>
<p>If you like chemistry, you may want to consider chemical engineering instead, since it tends to do much better in career surveys than chemistry.</p>
<p>I am sitting here now trying to convince ex-coworkers to leave their jobs and come work for my employer…so I can cash in on this $8,000 referral fee per hire. I think there is ONE pure CS major out of all of them. The rest are math, statistics, analytical chemistry and biostats. All of the jobs are software engineering or systems engineering related.</p>
<p>I want to study physics but I was just wondering in general because as much as I like physics I know that I cannot guarantee that that is the science in which I will major.</p>
<p>It doesn’t apply if you use the school’s networking correctly. Don’t aim for lab/academic positions also. Just aim for lucrative fields. Get internships and set yourself up with nice job when you graduate.</p>
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<p>Based on career surveys, physics majors generally do considerably better than chemistry and biology majors, but many of them do work in non-physics jobs like finance, computer software, etc…</p>
<p>Anything physical and with math is good.</p>
<p>My manager at the pharmaceutical plant I interned at did his PhD in physical chemistry. His specialty had nothing to do with pharmaceuticals but the boss hired him just because he knows chemistry, physics, math and programming.</p>
<p>Stay the hell away from anything with the word “bio”, “medical”, “biomedical”, “cell” or “pre” in it. Pharmaceuticals is supposed to be all about bio right? no, the boss hired a guy that knows physical chemistry to manage the bio people.</p>