<p>I'm and entering freshman majoring in Aerospace Engineering. Thanks to AP credit (WOOOO! Go AP!) I can pursue a minor while still graduating on time and not having too heavy of a course load. I'll likely go to grad school after getting my bachelors degree, but I'm not 100% set on that.</p>
<p>The minors I'm interested in are:
economics (12 extra credit hours), business (15 extra credit hours), physics (9 extra credit hours), science and technology business (18 extra credit hours), marketing (21 extra credit hours), and I'm open to look in to anything someone may suggest. </p>
<p>Which of these would be most helpful, and why? (I'm not interested in graduating early, and that'd be kind of hard to do) ((my top 3 choices are all tied)) (((I'm willing to listen to things that could possibly be more useful than a minor, but understand... the AP credit mainly frees up time my freshman and sophomore years)))</p>
<p>There aren’t really any minors that are inherently more helpful than other except for maybe math, and even that is only helpful because it just forces you to take a few extra courses, not because any employer actually cares that you have a minor.</p>
<p>I have found putting honest time into electrical engineering coursework to be the most beneficial in terms of employability as an engineer with an aerospace company, followed by anything that involves coding projects (not necessarily CS though). Beyond that I would say just do what you find most interesting. As for grad school, see how you fare after your first 2.5-3 years in undergrad before you start worrying about that.</p>
<p>As a engineering manager who hired many a college grad, I always looked at just your engineering related classes. The more the better. Wasn’t interested in economics, business, music, art, or the like. I was hiring you to do engineering work.</p>
<p>My son ended up going 5 years to get his BS due to some scheduling issues getting the prerequisites for his senior project; which could only be started in the fall term. He took just about every class offered in robotics, which was his field of interest. His first employer said he hired him because of the background all those extra classes provided him.</p>