<p>Hello,
I will be attending Michigan in the fall of 2011 and I'm enrolled in Electrical Engineering right now.
I'm thinking of switching to aerospace engineering or mechanical.
I'm wanting to major in something that involves in a lot of math and computing, but something that's "fun" to do.
I'll be minoring in some econ/some type of business.</p>
<p>Which engineering would be best for me?
I know this may sound bad, but money is a motivation as well for me. I want to major in something that I highly enjoy and have a good salary (6figures +)
Thank you.</p>
<p>CS + Economics + Finance + Math + Statistics => a range job and career options in software development, quantitative finance, and actuarial science, all of which are well paid</p>
<p>(Obviously, if you do this, you would not major in all of them, but major in one and supplement with courses in the others.)</p>
<p>So if I went this route, I’d major in CS.
Then minor in econ and the rest?
Or just minor in econ and just take classes that help me out with the other things?
Sorry, I’m pretty naive at this…
Thanks.</p>
<p>I am just curious as to why you might think the other two is “funner” to do?</p>
<p>It all depends on what you really like, and if you don’t enjoy it, it will still be a living hell.</p>
<p>And in terms of a 6+ figure salary, I think most engineering majors would end up there anyways.</p>
<p>Plus, starting in six figure for engineers is hard to come by these days. </p>
<p>I have always thought that petroleum and chem engineers have really high wage. But that is only when they can actually get the right job. Most grads that I know ended up working in the control center as a pipeline operator and the wages there are… Good enough for you to live :)</p>
<p>You know, whichever you choose; (I would go for a broader mech or elec., but then again planes just freak me out) it isn’t the degree, it’s what you do with it. You could be a mech eng and work on air cons and make a decent living, but you could go work for a huge biz and make bank… Say like a mech engineer for yachts or oil rigs or Etwa. I do oil and was looking at the profile for the oil ceo’s and main oil guys in my city and they’re all freaking random easy majors, like math, civil eng, biz, social sci. Who knows? Good luck</p>