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Originally Posted by firebug
Help....
My daughter has been accepted into engineering at UofA and the Math program at UofC.
She's been unable to make a decision and I don't want to make the decision for her.
What would future opportunities look like between them?
We live out towards Priddis so while UofC is closer it'll be a crappy commute. She is really good at math but not a savant/prodigy and my concern is that she'll need to be competing with those sorts in the math program.
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I’m biased toward engineering because it has a broad and well paying career path. So if you want to stay technical you can and if you want to go into management you can. There are very few office jobs that you can’t get to do starting with an Engineering and aiming your career.
I have a cousin who did Actuarial Science and is working in Finance in the US now. My concern with the math degree would be how do you turn it into a job afterwards. So unless academia is the focus then I’d avoid pure math.
But if you go with the follow your dreams approach why does she like math and physics? Is it using numbers to solve some kind of problem or is it a fascination of how numbers work. If it’s the numbers to solve problems than engineering or actuarial science over pure math but if she likes math for maths sake then the pure math world might be the right choice.
Career focused thought would be pursue a degree that leads to a designation.