daughter changing major

ucbalumnus
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:36:47 +0000

MSmom&dad:

Not a very helpful comment UCB (and I disagree that Chemistry is a “bad” major; Unemployment among BS level chemists is far lower than among many other non-professional degrees).



Take a look at this career survey: https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm

Note that 2008 was the most recent year where average pay of chemistry graduates was given, due to too few reporting in more recent years.

Chemical engineering, on the other hand, has much better job and career prospects. So do (applied) math, statistics, and physics.