Best engineering major for a versatile career (Business/Engineering)

traveler98
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:01:39 +0000

My degree is in chemical engineering. If you already know you don’t actually want a career in engineering, then it’s not necessarily ideal to do that for your undergrad. When you say “MBA later on” do you mean immediately after undergrad or do you mean working for a while before starting the MBA?

Lots of engineers do end up in management or technical sales, with or without MBAs. I’ve known some who have gone on to finance or venture capital post-MBA, but that was usually after they realized they didn’t care for engineering. I’ve known people who planned to go to medical or law school who majored in engineering for undergrad. I’ve also known people who were very entrepreneurial and wanted to start their own technical companies, and they did engineering undergrad and either got their MBA or took a lot of undergrad business courses while getting their engineering degrees.

If you’re really primarily interested in business, you should spend time learning about career paths that appeal to you and backing up from there to find out what degrees are best to prepare for those career interests. “Business”, like “engineering”, covers a huge array of careers. I’m not overly familiar with undergrad business offerings but I find it hard to believe that such degrees are worthless if they are not granted by a handful of expensive private elites. Surely there are plenty of schools offering plenty of business-related undergrad degrees that can lead to gainful employment.