<p>Why is there not a science major section on this website? It seems like pure science is always overlooked when talking about colleges. Everyone knows who the great engineering schools are, but not once have I heard talk of any great pure science programs. I am not sure yet if I want to do engineering or science, but I know it will be one of those two. Does it just go without saying that a school with good engineering also has good science? Thanks.</p>
<p>because "science" is not a major...physics, bio, chem, ect are...engineering IS a major, therefor it has a section</p>
<p>However, at many schools, there isn't just an "engineering" major (although some schools do have a general engineering major), just like how there isn't a "science" major. There is electrical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, industrial engineering, computer engineering, and a myriad of other engineering disciplines.</p>
<p>On the other hand, engineering is different from science in that there are specific engineering-only colleges or it is a completely separate school at larger universities. There are a lot of issues that students interested in engineering face that are very different from what liberal arts majors face.</p>
<p>Also, I expect that enough readers on this forum expressed a desire for a separate engineering forum and that is why it was started; if enough people ask for one for science it's very likely one would be set up...</p>
<p>Perhaps engineering is a professional career and students are more interested in specific engineering disciplines. Most people doing science aren't really sure what they want to do.</p>
<p>I would argue that science is distincly different than engineering, and very much its own category apart from engineering, and equal to it.</p>
<p>I would argue that science is distincly different than engineering, and very much its own category apart from engineering, and equal to it.</p>
<p>Why not just ask the administrators to set up a separate forum if there's demand for it? And the reason people always overlook the sciences as majors is that it doesn't set you up for a job directly out of college. If you go to an engineering school, you can find a job as an engineer. If you major in say physics or chemistry, there isn't a clear path for you. It's good if you want to do research as a career, but there aren't as many job opportunities for that.</p>
<p>the problem is that engineering, although there are different disciplines (EE, AE, ME, ect), they're all VERY similar in most classes, and engineering as a whole is very inter-connected...a EE major can work on a ME project, a AE on an ME, ect...
whereas science ranges from chemistry to biology to physics to whatever...theres a HUGE difference between those disciplines, and there are so many science disciplines that it would be hard to have a forum to encompass all of them
the term "science" is MUCH broader than engineering, and refers to a group of majors with their own disciplines (ie physics can be broken down into astrophysics, quantum physics, ect), whereas engineering is a major with a few disciplines (ME, AE, EE, ect)</p>
<p>The engineering forum is the de facto science forum since there isn't a big enough demand for a separate science forum. We can ask for it to be renamed the Science and Engineering Majors section if it makes some people happier.</p>
<p>The sciences are usually lumped together with Engineering (on this forum) just for brevity's sake.</p>
<p>The Sciences vary greatly from the traditional Biology, Chemistry or Physics to increasing specializations such as Bio-physics, Computational Physics and it would be difficult to accommodate all of them.</p>