Curious about this
Why would you feel the need for two degrees, regardless of when you earn them?
Seems like it would be more time and money to get two degrees.
For future reference, you may want to flesh out your questions a little more in order to help posters guide you. Your questions have been a bit vague, I’m sure unintentionally.
Don’t necessarily need an official double major. Just take the range of classes to build the knowledge and skills in the other. Call it a minor or describe it in ways that work.
And yes, it can be annoying when, through multiple threads, a poster just states he’s curious what others think without describing the context. Let us know how you think and why.
^^^^Generally agree except to call it a minor one needs to declare it and take a prescribed group/number of courses.
Sure. But you don’t need to claim an official minor to show the knowledge and skills.
Just to back up a bit and give some context, doubling for an engineer is virtually impossible. The curricula are too rigid and have few if any free hours. Minors aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
@eyemgh Geology and chemical engineering
@lookingforward @happy1 Geology and chemical engineering
@happy1 @lookingforward @eyemgh Geology is #1 priority, ChemE is a backup but also because I’m interested in energy
Look up the flow charts of the curricula for any of the schools you’re interested in for both majors and see how you’d mesh them. My guess is not very well.
Why not Geological Engineering? Energy Systems Engineering?
“ChemE is a backup” - Not. Engineering course sequences are tough to complete just on their own.
I like eyemgh’s idea for Geological Engineering.
It’s not impossible to double major with one major being engineering. My kid did it…double majors…engineering and biology.
She did have to take courses one summer to graduate with her class.
Remember to double check the general education requirements if the majors are in different colleges of a university. Often each college prescribes their own set of rules. You may find the need to also take a foreign language, a longer natural science series, an additional art class, etc. to fill the general education requirements of the other college.
Yep…my daughter had to satisfy the college of engineering AND college of arts and sciences general core course requirements, but it was doable.
Financial aid is generally not available for a second bachelor’s degree, and many people who think they are going back for a second degree find that “life happens” and they never do so.
BUT - trying to do two majors at once can mean that you don’t do either well. It is very difficult to double major in engineering. If you are not coming in with DE or AP credits, I would go so far as to say impossible to do in four years.
The double major might have to take courses one summer…mine did. But other than that…it was not a problem.
But her college was supportive of this. Some are not.
@thumper1, the feasibility of doubling, or even minoring, is highly institution dependent.