which are the engineering majors for me if I just want to make a lot of money.help?

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<p>well I don't care what i would do,but I prefer an engineering major;but not any major in the energy sector like geology,petro,etc. I would rather beg and live than selling my soul.
so can someone please introduce me to majors that would pay me well for just an engineering major ; and one that would pay me the most if I start a business in that sector(this is very important and difficult to figure out for me) and one that would pay me the most for an MBA(I plan on getting it after the completing major)</p>

<p>any field would do as money motivates me which would keep me going.
thanks for any suggestions.</p>

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<p>*after completing the major</p>

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<p>for $$, petrol. You can also make it big in compsci and computer engineering.</p>

<p>However, I don’t see why anyone would not care what type of engineering they do. All make good money compared to other fields (esp. if you get an MBA…you could be any type and climb the ladder), so you might as well enjoy what you’re doing.</p>

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<p>thanks.
which one would be the cheapest to start my own business in ?
and which one will the most profitable regardless of the capital to start it ?</p>

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<p>I would say a software based company so software engineering or comp sci. </p>

<p>But please dont base your degree on money.</p>

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<p>For salary: the differences between most engineering majors are relatively small compared to the difference between engineering and non-engineering. In the long run, you will make more at “poorly paying” engineering job where you have talent and interest than you will at a “top paying” engineering job where you have neither.</p>

<p>For starting your own business: software engineering / computer science by far. Most engineering fields involve hardware, and that makes for sometimes astonishingly large start-up costs. Some fields can have the same low start-up costs as CompSci, but only if you want a consulting or standard design business - if you actually want to innovate (which is where the big bucks are) then CompSci is the only field with genuinely low start-up costs.</p>

<p>Still, I agree with the rest - picking engineering for the money is fine, but having gone that far you should now address your actual abilities and interests.</p>

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<p>Electrical</p>

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<p>Electrical</p>

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<p>Please don’t try to pick a career, let alone an engineering track, based on how much money you’ll make. Not only will you wind up being miserable, but you’ll also probably be lousy at whatever you pick. Aim for doing something you like.</p>

<p>I’m 30 years out of college now, and can tell you that, save a guy who worked his way through college and then went to work after college for some guy he went to high school with in Seattle who had started some tiny software company, the engineers from my graduating class who have managed to earn the most money did so by working in venture capital, in private equity, or on Wall Street as traders or sales reps. Lots of non-engineers went into those investment banking jobs as well, and earned just as much money. </p>

<p>There were also some engineers (who moved into management positions) who did get rich via equity when their companies took off and were sold or went public. And yes, that one guy I mentioned above happened to go to high school with Bill Gates and probably has assets of about a billion dollars or so now. He was not only lucky, but also has intelligence that puts him at the 1 in 10,000 level.</p>

<p>Engineering can be a great career, if you like building things, creating things, fixing things, solving technical problems, spending enormous amounts of time on detail, and doing all of the other things that engineers do. You can be successful in any engineering discipline, financially and personally. </p>

<p>You can also be wildly financially successful with a history degree - I have classmates who’ve earned millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions dollars, with degrees in history or English or economics (and some who have quit these jobs because they hated the work and the pressure, despite the huge incomes).</p>

<p>Those who go into a field just to make money usually don’t succeed at it, whether it’s in engineering or the more lucrative finance field. Engineering schools are littered with corpses of kids who washed out in engineering, in part because it’s hard, or in part because they had no interest in it, but went into the field for the money or because Dad was a machinist and said that engineering was the best way to go.</p>

<p>You have the choice now to go do something you want to do; if you really love it, it will show, and you’ll be successful personally, professionally and financially. And hopefully, you’ll even wind up being happy.</p>

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<p>It all depends really.</p>

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<p>Eh, most of the students that were motivated by money in my first two years ended up leaving. When stuff gets hard you have to really want it to get through. </p>

<p>However, if you think you’re different… then Petro (but you said no to that), so CompSci or EE. I read that having a MBA/Mech Engineering combo is extremely versatile. You could always go into finance after an MBA and make a ton of money.</p>

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<p>I forgot about Chemical, that is also a highly paid one. I don’t know the job market though.</p>

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<p>To make a decent amount then any comp/electrical/chemical/mech or petro will do.</p>

<p>To be rich… then go for business and sell your soul. To be rich, you need to have the following formula:</p>

<ol>
<li> Be an expert at what you do</li>
<li> A bit of luck</li>
</ol>

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<p>sell your soul in business?
can you explain please?</p>

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<p>You are unlikely to survive the rigor of engineering courses unless your skills and interests match your choice.</p>

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<p>I haven’t met a wealthy and successful person who wasn’t first and foremost really into/excited about/enjoying about what they were doing. Extrinsic motivation only takes you so far, IMHO.</p>

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<p>A really good businessman can hire all the pHd engineers he needs. If the goal is money, you have to think of businesses in terms of return on investment, not on technical passion. Sometimes owning a strip club or an apartment complex is more lucrative than a technical company. To really succeed in business, you will need to work on being an alpha male - or the female equivalent. Bill Gates succeeded in his early business career by agressively selling his inferior OS, not by being the most technically competent. It was later, once he could hire the brightest people in the world, that he really made it big.</p>

<p>Given that the discussion is technology first, then business, I would go with software/programming. You have the ability to distribute the work remotely and subcontract as needed. It is easier to control the cost vs. revenue as opposed to something like a manufacturing plant.</p>

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<p>but how does that mean that i’ll have to sell my soul if i go business?</p>

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<p>I spent a year after college working for an investment bank. We did IPOs for some tech companies, so my EE degree helped with the sales of shares to tech savvy people. My job was to separate honest people from their hard earned money as efficiently as possible. This pays much better than engineering, but some of our sales “techniques” bothered me so I returned to design engineering. For a pretty good look at what I was doing you can read Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis.</p>

<p>Not all business people are unscrupulous, but many are. In business you will have to ready to go to war with them on a regular basis. An innate desire to win these battles helps immensely. College wrestlers make great businessmen.</p>

<p>It is also important to note the difference between self-employed (consultants, salesmen, service industry where you have to go to work every day) and business owner where going in to the place of business is a choice but not a responsibility.</p>