Civil Engineering is hazardous to your career prospects

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I’m going to be a freshman this year in college and after reading this thread, I really don’t know what to do. I’m going in as a civil engineering major but it seems as the prospects aren’t too good. I’m a girl too and I don’t know if that will affect anything. Also, environmental engineering seems to be a hot field right now, do you think it would do me good to minor in enviroE along with my civil engineering major? I’m just confused and stressed out and hoping I can figure this out before i start college. If civil eng isn’t looking so well, I may just change my major (though that is difficult to do)

A lot of it depends on school and location. If you’re in an area that was hit hard by the housing bust (California, Nevada, Florida), you’ll be pretty much out of luck unless you are in a great school that works closely with industry. Even in 2009, Cal Poly SLO civil engineering grads had a job placement rate that was close to 80%.</p>

<p>But if you’re in the Midwest, it isn’t that tough to find a job that’s somewhat related to civil engineering. Right now, western North Dakota is looking for anyone they can find. There’s a huge labor shortage there, unemployment rates are below 3%, and places like NDSU (North Dakota State University) have a job placement rate of almost 100%:</p>

<p>[Civil</a> Engineering and Construction Fact Sheet](<a href=“http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/academic/factsheets/eng_arch/civil.shtml]Civil”>http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/academic/factsheets/eng_arch/civil.shtml)</p>