<p>Which has more out of an undergraduate degree? Masters? Short term, long term, etc.</p>
<p>Undergrad degree will hopefully be from Cooper Union</p>
<p>In a good economy (or just one that isn’t as bad as it is right now), there will be more job opportunities for civil engineering graduates. Few companies come to Cooper Union career fairs to hire chemical engineering grads (at least when I was there); most are usually looking for civil engineering grads. </p>
<p>That doesn’t mean opportunities don’t exist for chemical engineering grads of course. Every chemE I knew either went to grad school or got a job by graduation.</p>
<p>However, civil engineering jobs don’t pay as well on average because many of them are in the government and government jobs don’t pay as well as the private sector.</p>
<p>Chemical engineering can lead to oil industry jobs, which are the highest paying in industry.</p>
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What do you base this on? The last time I saw this was because of real estate bubble, which is not sustainable as proven today. Things are never gonna be the same again.</p>
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Please study any other engineering but civil. Unless you’re planning to go for masters in structural, civil is one of the more useless and non-flexible/non-versatile degree among all other eng majors.
A lot of civil stuff can be learned on the job, and if u have an ME background, it should be easy for you.</p>
<p>This question really does not matter Refund, since they are so different. You should study the discipline which you find more interesting. Ken285, I don’t think that is true. Whether Cooper had strong ties to Chem E recruiting companies is a separate issue. How do you come up with your assertion? I’d also agree that a Mech E could easily learn Civ E stuff on the job. Whereas a Civ E is fairly limited.</p>
<p>My post was based on my experience at Cooper (sorry if that wasn’t clear); I was not saying it is true across the board. We regularly had 1 or 2, sometimes no firms recruiting specifically for chemical engineering.</p>
<p>No, I understood you. What I’m saying though is that he should not decide his major on whether or not Cooper specifically has many Chem E companies on campus. That’s really strange though that such a good school didn’t have many Chem E companies. What did the Chem E’s do?</p>
<p>Chemical engineering is a niche major and there isn’t as many jobs out there for Chemical Engineers as there is for mechanical, electrical, and civil engineers.</p>
<p>A lot of the chemEs went to med school or grad school. The rest got jobs, but those companies didn’t actively recruit at Cooper (at that time).</p>
<p>I’m a freshman ChemE at Cooper and I went to the career fair in the fall (spring one is tomorrow actually). I looked at about half of the companies that were there, just walking around to get a feel for what the career fair is like. There were maybe 2 companies, of those I saw, interested in chemical engineers. This isn’t to say that there aren’t jobs for ChemE’s, they just weren’t recruiting at the career fair. (I hope, for my own sake, that this changes.)</p>
<p>two companies? Must be a really small chem E program at Cooper then?</p>
<p>The program is typically similar in size to the other disciplines.</p>
<p>Wow. What did they do to get jobs? I’m sort of in a similar situation and I know it’s really hard to get a job when your in college if your university doesn’t have connections in the area you’re looking for.</p>