<p>Just like the title said. As a HS senior, I unfortunately didn't do enough research on majors. Anyway, I'll save you the story and just go ahead and ask the question.</p>
<p>Please rank in order of prestige:</p>
<p>UW (seattle) Aero, UT Petro, TAMU Petro, UT Aero, OU Petro.</p>
<p>Also, if you have time... I've heard AA eng's (like Boeing for example) are often stuck behind desks and live a very VERY stressful life. Which major (AA or Petro) would allow more creativity? Individual thinking? Management?</p>
<p>1 more question regarding petro engs. Are they forced to travel often and far? Or can you still have a successful career living in TX/OK while not traveling (and leaving behind your family) for weeks upon weeks upon weeks?</p>
<p>You’re asking a meaningless question that few would know the answer to.
Do a little bit of research yourself. Prestige isn’t everything, by the way.</p>
<p>UT, A&M, and OU are all excellent for petroleum engineering. You won’t go wrong with any of those programs.</p>
<p>On-site jobs will require more travel than office, often for several weeks at a time. You will be compensated for that hardship.</p>
<p>I don’t know what it means to “rank in order of prestige” because that would depend on the group you are trying to impress. I recommend mint chocolate chip ice cream.</p>
<p>For instance, no one calls Aerospace Engineers ‘AAs’. And are you planning on working on Wall St.? Why would you compare the ‘prestige’ of completely different majors?? </p>
<p>By the way, TAMU and UT have good aerospace programs.</p>
<p>Ha! You still care about prestige. That’s okay, we all went through that phase. Very quickly you will find it doesn’t matter much.</p>
<p>Best to pick a school that is decently ranked but not too far from home, ideally in your own state or town. The odds are very, very high that whatever major you decide on now you will change anyway. I was all set to be a computer engineering major until I discovered that not only does working with circuits not interest me enough, but I also saw ICs as the vacuum tubes of this generation and wanted to work on quantum computing and quantum field theory, so now I’m engineering physics/CS. I’ve heard many similar stories: people who got into engineering but hated the math so switched to accounting, people who were mech. majors but switched to CS because they found they liked programming so much, the list goes on.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to find a school with a lot of programs to make this switching easier to accomplish.</p>