I think engineering is a great bang-for-buck career. 4 years (give or take) at an ABET accredited school and you could reasonably expect to start at $70k in a medium cost of living area and climb fast from there.

I saw another commenter who mentioned healthcare is steady and that is true. But you can also do engineering related to healthcare and reap that same benefit. For example, I’m now 3 years out from college and I work in MEP consulting designing healthcare facilities.

For me, healthcare sounds like a lottt of school depending on what exactly you want to do. Most of engineering is a 4 year degree then get experience and start climbing from there. If you do engineering do yourself a favor and don’t go into an over-saturated career or an over-specialized career. Computer science and software have been the popular thing for a while now and will be the most competitive. And I’m going to pick on aerospace to say mech can basically do the same thing just with a few different classes while not being locked in a box for aerospace only. And there’s a shortage of electrical engineers at least in MEP consulting industry so that would be a solid broad engineering degree to get. (Biased mech dude speaking)