Gave up engineering for accounting...worth it?

ChrisTKD
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:40:49 +0000

I have been told my whole life, that only engineering degrees worth the money that you paid for tuition!

You have been giving other peoples’ opinions too much weight in your own decisions. First, let’s deal with the comment you made above. Whoever told you that appears to be ignorant of everything outside of engineering. Accounting is definitely a practical major with excellent employment prospects. Your AP credits should have helped advance you in your business degree, e.g., you wouldn’t have to take a full year of science or the business calculus course(s). What did you think of your preliminary business classes? Did you take Intro Marketing, Intro Economics, Intro Accounting or other business classes? If so, did you like it?

Look back at the reasons you decided to switch out of civil engineering - “you were sick of doing science and math”! That is the most telling comment. Don’t let your advisor convince you to do something that you had already lost interest in. Your math aptitude is irrelevant. There are business majors with high math aptitude so it’s not as if you are the only one. Granted, there are a fair number with significantly lower math aptitude than the average engineer.