What % of your classmates changed majors away from engineering?

Mr_Payne
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:47:08 +0000

Will it be? You would end up with a bunch of extra engineers in the workforce who aren’t really interested in engineering at all, but just did it for the free degree.

Being interested in a profession is not the only reason to do it. I’m sure many humanities majors would love to go back in time and do an engineering degree.



In fact, many of them will probably be disgruntled because they didn’t get what they really wanted, which is admission to law/med school, or a job in consulting/banking.

Many people already are disgruntled they couldn’t get those things. Giving free engineering degrees would not create more of these people.



I’m not sure that that world would be better than what we have now.

Maintaining a high proportion of engineers in our workforce is a good thing.