My friends and I had a discussion about the most useful/useless college degrees offered from our school. This only applies to 4-year Bachelor’s degrees and not professional/graduate degrees. We came to the conclusion that Accounting, Nursing, Engineering (any field), Physics, and Computer Science were in our top 5 useful degrees. If you come to think about it, if you have a degree in any of those 5 fields, your in high demand in the military, private firms, companies, non-profit organizations, and corporations. But out of the five, we think that Engineering tops out all the other 4. It’s just a highly challenging and rigorous major!
Anyways, what do you guys think?
Engineering might be the most financially lucrative. Accounting is definitely the most stable, especially if you can get a government job. Government never lays _anybody_ off, and when the economy tanks, government needs accountants even more, to help promulgate lies about the economy.
As far as “comfort”, if you can live with yourself as a chartered accountant, there is nowhere your life can go but up.
I’m currently in college, one semester away from being a true junior (speaking in terms of credits), studying Mining and Mineral Resource Engineering. My program has 100% job placement after graduation. I would consider it to be pretty stable. Also, as an engineer, if you get an MBA, you’re pretty much solid gold.
So yeah, I’d have to agree, you can’t go wrong with any discipline in engineering.