<p>Why do you want to be a nuclear engineer?</p>
<p>Most nuclear power plants are civil and mechanical engineering based. Nuclear engineers can work in them as well (and are probably better at it) but nuclear energy hasn’t been a growth field for the last 20 years or so. We may be seeing the start of change with the first new nuclear power plants being built, but I don’t know if the public’s support is sufficient to reach critical mass and support the widespread construction of nuclear power plants.</p>
<p>Of course, nuclear stuff is used elsewhere. The medical industry and military stuff are two examples.</p>
<p>My suggestion would be to do mechanical engineering and take nuclear-related classes as your technical electives. You would then have the opportunity to work in nuclear if you wanted or another form of engineering if there weren’t enough jobs out there for nuclear.</p>