Parent of Senior student, got into Mays Business School and Engg programs in other schools (non TAMU). Hard to decide whether to get into Mays versus join Engg program in other college (out of state & some in-state options). Also wondering if both parent / student will regret missing one program versus the other once they made the choice.
I was hoping that the student join Mays and explore Engg related courses as a minor etc.
So they are equipped well to a face a speculative future industry.
One option is to join Mays and then request for a program change to Engg.
Please advise/ share your thoughts on what would be a best choice.
Major over school. It’s odd to me that you applied to business at one and engineering at another?
Another option could be something like Alabama has - and others maybe too - STEM to the MBA.
I’m not a fan of a fast MBA without work experience - because you lose the chance to pivot later and you lost salary potential that an experienced MBA gets.
But - it’s really - does he want to study business now or engineering now?
If one wants to study engineering, there’s many a school that will get you to the exact same place as A&M will - except he can’t do engineering at A&M.
But if he has no interest in engineering, then he should pursue what he wants. Engineering has a 50%+ drop out rate nationally - if you’re not all in, it’s likely not a good major and A&M has secondary admissions if you could get into engineering - so you don’t necessarily get the engineering discipline you want.
So to me - this comes down to - what does he want to study? It is definitely easier to go from engineering to business (many engineering drop outs do exactly this) then the opposite - go from anything into engineering.
btw - most engineering majors aren’t engineers in the real world so the education doesn’t preclude a business career.
Changing to an engineering major at Texas A&M is described at Engineering | Texas A&M University . Basically, each major has a minimum GPA to enter competitive admission. Space available for those enrolled outside of engineering presumably depends on what is left after undeclared engineering students go through ETAM (which tends to fill up the most popular majors like computer science, computer engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, etc.).
In other words, don’t count on being able to change into an engineering major if enrolling outside of engineering at Texas A&M.