<p>Not at all. </p>
<p>Kids who do CivE or MechE often have the intention of going into finance/consuting all along. Engineering builds a strong quantitative background. Heavy Excel/MatLab/SPSS/Stata etc. plays well to the consulting/I-Banking field.</p>
<p>While engineers certainly do well for themselves, there’s something about 60K immediately after graduation that is hard to resist.</p>