>>14104905i concluded the same thing from intensely researching graduate prospects and trying to decide between what i'm interested in (Mechanical Engineering or Physics) and what seems to have the best prospects (Electrical Engineering or Computer Science). I wish i'd went down the medicine path, graduate prospects are literaly 99 or 100% employment with good pay. I get that the lifestyle sucks but i wouldn't care.
If you're getting a chemistry degree from oxford, surely you can get some experience wherever through internships and then go back to the us where there'll be employement in research or smth somewhere across that vast land of opportunity. That sounds idealistic but if anyone is going to do it (without nepotism) then an oxbridge student had a good chance.
from my research on graduate outcomes, % who go into further study or employment within a year of their degree:
>physics: 70-85%>mechanical engineering: 80-95%>electrical engineering: 85-100%>Computer Science: 90-100%the range is due to the different institutions where people study, but those %'s are for top 10 unis in each field in the UK.
It's mainly the prospects and salaries which stop me from doing physics, though they aren't that bad (picrel) compared to anything other than EEE and CS which pay alot, makes me want to do EEE or CS though, hard to choose.
