Considering about Engineering Graduate School

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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:06:04 +0000

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would the universities in general give preference to majors in engineering over physics[\quote]

It depends whether physics would complement your intended research path. Take electrical engineering. If you want to study semiconductors or photonics, coming from a physics background would be excellent. If you want to study digital circuits or communications or signal processing, physics wouldn’t be very useful so graduate schools would prefer an engineering undergraduate student.

It’s really hard to answer your question unless I know what field of engineering/research area you are targeting. Certain programs prefer engineering undergraduate students; other programs do not.