<p>I'm currently a student at Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences. I transferred in from Berkeley College, the for-profit business school with 54 credits. Currently, I am a undecided engineering major, planning on going for ChemE. But, I have run into a conflict. Although my passion is in science, it will take me an additional 4 years on top of the two years that it took for me to get my associates. I am 25 turning 26 in November. However, I'm pretty much eligible for RBS, just need to take Financial Accounting(can take this in the winter session) Managerial Accounting and Stats. Then, it's pretty much whatever my major is, Finance or Accounting. Personally from my experiences, Accounting is mind numbing, but that could have been from a previous bad professor. So should I buck up and continue with the Engineering route or should I finish up at RBS? I know, it's up to me to pick what I like, but I would like some opinions. Also, how is the Business School at Newark? Yes, I do know New Brunswick is ranked better, but Newark is more convenient. Also which of the two majors has better prospects, finance or accounting, at RBS?</p>
<p>i’m not the person who can help you much, but i just want to say that i go to community college with someone who graduated from Rutgers New Brunswick and got a lucrative government-related job in Accounting, but didn’t like it. so you should only major in it if you can handle it. as far as Engineering goes, it depends on how much money you’re willing to spend on the 4 additional years of tuition and if your credentials are good enough to get you in. i heard that engineering majors are tough and time-consuming.</p>
<p>That’s the issue. I’m not even in the 2+2 program, so admissions is not guaranteed for me. What happens if I work my behind off, complete my pre-reqs, only to be denied admission? That’s time and money wasted. So this is quite the pickle I am in.</p>
<p>What prereqs for engineering are you missing?</p>
<p>If you opt for engineering, Rutgers NB offers a lot of the basic engineering courses in the summer such as Engineering Mechanics: Statics and the sophomore year ChemE courses (there are only two). If you would want to make the process faster and you have the humanities/math/science requirements out of the way, you could try and graduate earlier by taking summer classes.</p>
<p>And I believe that accounting has better job prospects than finance, but I may be wrong.</p>