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<p>You honestly don’t have a clue what you are talking about, do you? It is not easier to get into the aerospace industry as a mechanical engineer than as an aerospace engineer. Yes, there are more mechanical engineers employed in the aerospace industry. , of course, there are a lot more mechanical engineers overall. In other words, yes there are more jobs for mechanical engineers, but there is also more competition. In other words, your chances of getting into the aerospace engineer as a mechanical engineer are not appreciably different than as an aerospace engineer.</p>
<p>The main difference is the jobs for which you might be hired. There is a fair bit of overlap, but an aerospace engineer will tend to get hired into a more specialized aerospace position than a mechanical engineer, though this is certainly not an unbreakable rule. Overall there will tend to be more mechanical engineers doing structural stuff and more aerospace engineers doing aerodynamics stuff, for example, though there are certainly plenty of mechanical engineers doing aerodynamics and plenty of aerospace engineers doing structures.</p>
<p>In fact, it is therefore quite the opposite of what our friend Michael here said. Generally, aerospace engineers are more specialized than mechanical engineers, not the other way around. The bottom line then is that if you are 100% certain you want to work in aerospace, go ahead and do aerospace engineering. If you have any doubts, do mechanical and just take electives that are relevant to aerospace and you will be in nearly the same boat as the aerospace engineering guys.</p>