<p>My BS was in Engineering Physics (started as BA Phy). I filled my electives with all EE in order to get some engineering training. What I found when I graduated…the working world does not understand the EP degree. They respect the idea of Physicist, but have no idea how they could use one. With one exception. Hiring manager who were themselves physicists. </p>
<p>Once on the job I found myself lost at first. Then over time I noticed my degree allowed me to speak with engineers in all fields, something pretty rare out there. I took on self teaching ME and test software programming. These further developed engineering skills and gave me more depth, but not equivalent depth to those who specialized. This quickly made me a target for management, research and of all things, marketing. I took the management route until deciding I needed to get back to school and specialize. </p>
<p>Applying to schools I found little empathy for moving from BSEP to MS in any type of engineering. Eventually I targeted schools with conversion programs, summer fast paced programs for converting people from other fields. Landed one of these and excelled. Seems like at the Masters level and above engineering moves towards science so it was a near perfect fit (and a lot of work), and I did well.</p>
<p>I am very glad I switched to the BS program, because I doubt I would have had much of a chance with the BA. Of our small class, the BS folks went mainly to industry, the BA folks mainly to graduate school in physics, although one went to the patent office and then to law, and another went directly to med school.</p>
<p>So there’s one person’s history going through this. My advice…if you want to eventually do CE, start in CE, same for Aerospace. Converting to EE or CS from physics is doable (so probably is aero). I can’t think of any CE employer who would honestly consider a physics major. Going from an Engineering specialty BS to graduate school is easier than converting, but you can convert. </p>
<p>Physics was a great degree, but unless you want to do physics, or perhaps astronomy, it will be a continual hard sell in industry.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>