<p><a href=“http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-18.pdf[/url]”>http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-18.pdf</a> indicates that, for people age 25 and up with bachelor’s degrees, 7.9% were engineering majors (which may include engineering technology majors the way that table breaks down the majors).</p>
<p>7.9% is far from “everyone”. Even on these forums, engineering may not be as common as medicine as a major and career aspiration among the high school students.</p>