What Should I Choose Between Mechanical Engineering or Petroleum Engineering?
I am attending Texas A & M next year and i can’t decide between majoring in mechanical or petroleum engineering. I know mechanical is a more broader major and i would have plenty of opportunities and such but i heard in petroleum you PAID.. So i can’t decide. Please don’t give me anything about what I like and my passion because I honestly don’t care, they’re both engineering anyways. So if someone could just give me useful advice, it would be great!
I have a degree in mechanical engineering and I worked for a major oil company for 35 years. They paid me just as well as they did the petroleum engineers. In fact I was so well paid that I retired before I was 60 years old. I also had a really interesting, challenging and rewarding career.
It really isn’t the degree you have that determines your success but doing what you enjoy and how you apply yourself to the opportunities you have.
mechanical engineering , as you have already stated is much broader gives you more options ,and petroleum is on way out
demand for pertroleum engineering is on the rise and will continue to be
Think ahead. How long is petroleum going to be around?