Business Major

accounting. no question.

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salary/ease/family time/benifits

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Based on these criteria, I definitely agree with the votes for "Accounting". If you have the time and inclination, go ahead and bang out a graduate degree, as you'll want want 10 years from now I'm pretty sure.

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go ahead and bang out a graduate degree

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Thats the plan


I've been leaning towards Accounting, Human Resource Management, or Entrepeneurship Management

late for that

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All my engi friends a few years out, even the ones with advanced engi degrees, are going for their MBA or taking the LSAT

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Is that to get into a different business or to further their education and use both engineering and business knowledge in their current industry?

I'm definitely planning on getting my MBA because you need the business knowledge to run a company, but the engineering undergrad degree gets you working at more than decent pay immediately, unlike a business degree.

First question is what do you like? My life would have been miserable had I gone into accounting despite so many here recommending it. I would think any of the majors you listed besides Accounting and ISDS would require going to grad school to be worth anything. If you go into either Acct or ISDS the Internal Audit program used to be a great path to an internship and a job after graduation.

Accounting really doesn't involve hardly any math, fwiw.

I'm an Accounting grad student fwiw. I just know that I know several people who majored in some type of engineering that were average students with no experience, and got great paying jobs directly out of college. The ones who actually tried and did internships in college are making even better money.

On the other hand, I know several [obviously] accounting students that have graduated in the past two years, who all have good jobs for sure, but make probably 10-20% less than the engineering guys. Pretty much every engineer I know makes 60-80k, some outliers substantially more, either in Houston or NOLA. I finish my MS in Acct next August, with my CPA done hopefully by October of this year, and I would be happy with anything around 50. Every person I know that has graduated in the past two years and gone to a Big4 makes under 65, most closer to 50.

Some of those people just have an undergrad, none of them had a MS and/or CPA completed when they applied, and I don't know how those salaries scale over 10 years or so, but that's been my experience with starting salaries of engineers and accountants.

ISDS majors seems to do alright, the rest are pretty much a crap shoot though depending on your grades and your persistence in getting at least one internship, especially if you go with something like management or marketing.

In Waco?

ETA: I highly doubt the second part of that, unless they went to an Ivy league and work in NYC.