Job prospects for Engineering vs Physics major

Catria
Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:39:24 +0000

Canada, and Quebec in particular, is an entirely different bag of beans in the engineering vs. physics game: since there isn’t that many people who graduate with a Physics degree to start with, ~70-80 yearly province-wide, with 6 Us doing it, 4 of which are actually decent (UQTR and Concordia are the Quebecer bottom of the barrel, while Laval, U Sherbrooke, U Montreal and McGill are the decent, nationally-ranked ones), ~50 going on to grad school, and the latest data, with respect to Quebec, indicate that average starting pay and placement rates (among other indicators) are comparable in many ways for both orientations.

So, really, I could have chosen either path and still have a financially fulfilling career to look forward to.