<p>Which has the better:
Job opportunities?
Lower competition for jobs?
Job growth?
Working conditions?
Stability?
Flexibility to do more than one particular objective?
Salary?</p>
<p>You could do Civil Engineering with a Geotechnical concentration, it’s actually pretty common.
Or maybe a minor in Geology / Geophysics. I would say you could find a job easier with an engineering degree, and you could even get hired into a geo related field. In geology or geophysics, master’s is required for the “cool” jobs.</p>
<p>I think that asking this on the engineering board, you are likely to get biased answers. That being said, engineering degrees are consistently ranked with some of the highest salaries and lowest employment rates of available degrees today, at around 2% while the rest of America languishes at 8.1%. There is a lot of career advancement to be had in engineering, and job opportunities across the country. Most engineering degrees are flexible in that as long as you get the experience, you can work outside your degree’s field. It is not uncommon to find mechanical engineers working in some capacity as an electrical engineer. I’ll let someone else answer about geo though.</p>
<p>Geotechnical engineering is not the same as geology. I apologize if I’m stating the obvious, but I’m not sure if it’s common knowledge.</p>
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