My son is an odd duck, he loves STEM and liberal arts equally. He did especially well in math / chemistry and had a lot of chemistry related ECs. He has decided to attend Princeton as ChemE, but during an open house he became intrigued with ORFE (operations research and financial engineering - https://orfe.princeton.edu), at Princeton ORFE encompasses a wide range of fields including machine learning, probability, statistics.
Dealing with big data seems like an area that will be in demand for the foreseeable future, but I’m a little worried about him ignoring the “safety” of an ABET ChemE degree.
Valid concern? Is ORFE trendy degree?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts…