Son deciding between Chemical Engineering and Accounting

cobrat
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 06:00:27 +0000

Accounting doesn’t have the degree of near all-consuming academic requirements as ChemE or other areas of engineering.

In fact, he can cover both bases by majoring in ChemE, taking the required accounting courses, and reach the 150 minimum credit threshold needed to fulfill the credit requirements to take the CPA exam.

While this may be a lot, if he finds engineering not for him, he can drop it and continue with accounting. It’s far more difficult to start off as an accounting major and then decide to add ChemE with it.

Also, while he can double major in accounting, it’s not necessary as I have known several folks who have managed to become CPAs while majoring in other fields…including Philosophy and Asian Lit.

Incidentally, like Economics, Accounting is sometimes regarded as another natural fallback major for engineering majors as the much greater mathematical requirements in engineering tends to make those of those two fallback fields a walk in the park for most in comparison.