<p>The way I’ve seen it, there are only four engineering majors at Northeastern University, covering the four main branches of engineering.
Does this limit your options? Does lack of a field-specific major keep you from certain career fields, or does coop experience more than compensate for that?</p>
<p>Honestly, it compensates doing a more general area of engineering than shooting straight at a specific area. Think of it as people following the medicine track: they first go to med school and only after that they choose their specialization. It is practically the same. You can do mechanical engineering and decide to go to graduate school to focus on a specific area, such as biomedical engineering. </p>
<p>You can also double major, for example how about electrical engineering together with bio major. You are the one creating your own path, and these general engineering majors offered are the best ones and the most wise ones to take in my opinion. </p>
<p>By the way, this changes from person to person, perhaps you are the kind of person that certainly knows you want to stay in a specific field forever, however I like thinking that if I decide to major on electrical engineering I will have much more job options and fields to go into that being specialized right out of college.</p>