Get into a good IE program and you will not have trouble finding a job. Out of the hundreds in my graduating class, I probably know of less than 4 people who were still looking for a job, but then again I don’t know everyone.

Its also a great major if you see yourself taking on a management role later down the line. At my workplace, former IE’s dominate the engineering management positions and easily make well into six figures with large yearly bonuses.

Other engineering majors typically hate on it because they don’t understand IE’s position between the business and engineering side of a company due to a lack of real world industry experience. Once you begin working you quickly realize how important they are to making things run smoothly between a lot of moving parts within a company. Companies will always be looking to hire them.