Dual majors?

[Lisa Perez]

Hi all,

I'm ending my junior year and will begin applying to college soon. While looking up information, I found that a majority of my top choices do not offer dual majors for aerospace engineering and business management. I am curious - what colleges do offer this option?

Thanks - Lisa

[Clark Gilbert]

This might be a possibility at Purdue University here in Indiana. I looked online and noticed you could do Aero Engineering and get a minor in Management. Both of these schools are top notch and w/o actually being in them I can guarantee it will be pretty challenging.

The best thing to do would be to email advisors or admissions people and just ask.

[KenWittlief]

when I was in college (in the last millenia) I wanted to get a BS in electrical engineering and computer science - I took all the required classes for both degrees for the first two years, but when I was a junior I had to be accepted into one of the degree programs, and found out I could not get both unless I stayed for an extra year.

So I only have a BSEE, but I still took as many computer science electives as I could. This was a huge + for my career, understanding both digital hardware and SW, and being able to design both.

[Alex Pelan]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

when I was in college (in the last millenia) I wanted to get a BS in electrical engineering and computer science - I took all the required classes for both degrees for the first two years, but when I was a junior I had to be accepted into one of the degree programs, and found out I could not get both unless I stayed for an extra year.

So I only have a BSEE, but I still took as many computer science electives as I could. This was a huge + for my career, understanding both digital hardware and SW, and being able to design both.

I would like to do something like this. I would assume that most technology-based schools have programs in both of these categories, but would it have to take an extra year to finish both the majors? I will probably be transferring 3 AP sciences, 1 AP math, and one in pretty much all other subjects. I know I am only a freshman at a moment but I figure its never too early to start looking at things such as this... not to mention i only have 24ish days left in my freshman year.

[GregT]

Many colleges offer buisness minors (RIT for instance: http://www.cob.rit.edu/current/under...te/minors.html).

If you want two full degrees, you're going to need to do the work associated with both. It usually takes a year or two extra. Some degree programs make exceptions by double counting some required courses. For instance operations research is both a requirement for my major and a requirment for the MBA program at my school. If I wished to earn both a BS and MBA, I could double count this course effectivly saving 4 credit hours (silly quarter system).

I think most schools allow you to double major, but it is more work and will take more time.
Greg

[Ashley Weed]

I am sure that it would be possible at Penn State as a dual major or a major and a minor. The problem that occurs at PSU is meeting the Entrance to Major deadline, however you would have to find out what happens if you plan on picking up a second major (it may be extended).

..... I would assume that it would be possible at any Big Ten school? or large University for that fact that carries your majors of choice?

[mtrawls]

Well, I know UVA allows this ... I happen to be interested in doing a dual major, too (well, actually a triple major), so I've looked up information about this and asked a bunch of questions to the different colleges I've visited. I've found that whether a particular university "allows" it all depends on who you ask -- a lot of people just don't know and for whatever reason they still feel compelled to answer ... however wrong they may be. I've found, too, that so long as you can take all the requirements you need for both majors, dual majoring shouldn't be a problem at all (though different colleges make different distinctions between dual and double majoring, which are mostly important if the majors are in different schools, e.g., Engineering and Arts and Sciences).

Like KenWittlief said, you may have to spend an extra year there. It depends. Personally, I'll be going in with more than a few AP/dual enrollment credits, which make selecting my schedule much easier. If you don't have any AP credit, it is likely you may have to either "load up" your schedule (take 18+ credit hours/semester), go to a summer session ... or stay an extra year. What you'll have to do, of coure, depends on the school and their particular requirements for their majors and what credit they accept.

[sirbleedsalot]

I don't know if you would want to move all the way up to Grand Forks North Dakota but I know several people up there that are double and even triple majoring up there.

[Lisa Perez]

Wow. Thanks so much, everyone. I will certainly take all of what you have said into consideration.

[Phil 33]

According to the Magazine "Private Colleges and Universities - Science and Engineering Division" Gonzaga University has a 5 year program that gives students a BS degree in engineering and an M.B.A. I'm sure there's more out there too.

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

Hi all,

I'm ending my junior year and will begin applying to college soon. While looking up information, I found that a majority of my top choices do not offer dual majors for aerospace engineering and business management. I am curious - what colleges do offer this option?

Thanks - Lisa

Kettering University (formerly GMI - General Motors Engineering and Management Institute) Flint, Michigan

Offers Engineering/Management dual majors. There is no explicit "Aerospace Engineering", but instead a Mechanical Engineering with Aerospace concentration.

It's a co-op school, with 3 month terms. Most dual majors take 5 years to graduate, but if you transfer in a LOT of APs, and take courses online during work term, it is possible to get out in 4.

They give out big FIRST scholarships every year (I was a recipient in 1999), and when you graduate, you definitely come out prepared for just about anything.

-Shawn...

[sburro]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

Hi all,

I'm ending my junior year and will begin applying to college soon. While looking up information, I found that a majority of my top choices do not offer dual majors for aerospace engineering and business management. I am curious - what colleges do offer this option?

Thanks - Lisa

In my opinion, a double or ever triple major is tough. Just trying to do one major takes up most of your time. If you do a double major, you can kiss your social life, CD, First and just about everything else goodby. But this is just my opinion.

[ngreen]

I would definitely look at this list: Sigma Gamma Tau (National Honor Society in Aerospace Engineering) Chapters

Then I would look at which ones offer business programs. Most do.

Then where you would like to go choose a couple and get hold of them.

If you know the right people in the college you can get very indivualized majors.


EDIT: I finally took some time to look at some business honor societies.

Beta Gamma Sigma
Sigma Beta Delta

Personally I would just do what I'm doing. BS in chemE and minor in economics.

[jpsaul7usa]

Originally Posted by sburro

In my opinion, a double or ever triple major is tough. Just trying to do one major takes up most of your time. If you do a double major, you can kiss your social life, CD, First and just about everything else goodby. But this is just my opinion.

Not entirely true: If you manage your time well (e.g. do homework between classes, don't procrastinate papers) and you make friends in your classes you can spend tons of time with friends and have a lot of fun with two majors. I'm currently taking an extended major and a minor (1.5+.5=2ish?), and I'm loving college so far.

Don't tripple major though. That's insane. One of my friends is tripple majoring in Comm, Journalism, and Electronic Media. She took 24 hours this semester and will be doing the same each semester until she graduates. Doesn't sound fun, does it?

Anyway, I can tell you that Northern Arizona University doesn't have much of a connection between the engineering school and business school. ASU however has everything, so if you like the heat, you're welcome to come out to our oven.

[mtrawls]

Like I said, the "toughness" of double or triple majoring depends on what you did during high school. Me, my high school schedule was "insane," so my college one won't have to be (oddly enough, compared with my senior year, a triple major should be a breeze!). Haven taken 9 AP tests plus dual enrollment, I'll be starting out in Diff EQ, advanced comp. sci. classes, adv. spanish classes, etc. I can get by with only the typical 15-18 credit hours of an engineering schedule. Maybe one summer session just to take care of time conflicts. Overall, it's just a matter of time management and going in with the right amount of credits, and pretty much anything is possible. Of course, it helps that comp. sci. and math go hand in hand and that spanish is a light major compared to some others.