ucheicon:
Who ever tells you to choose maths over engineering assuredly doesn't know what he's talking about. Engineering gives you the widest scope of job possibilities over any discipline with electrical/electronic engineering the widest. Go to any finance or audit institution,you'll observe that people with engineering degrees predominate over any discipline. The MD,DMD and ED treasury of UBA are grads of engineering. In the oil industry,engineering is so revered that even geologists will tell you that engineers are trained to do their jobs. To be admitted into IPS port harcourt(jointly run by TOTAL and uniport) any engineering degree suffices,even polymer of agric engineering! Never heard them admitting mathematicians or physicists! For the chap who talks of quants job in US investment banking,the chap is surely ignorant. Does he mean engineers won't be taken if applied? Crazy! Engineers surely dominate recruitment hires there if not the discipline financial engineering as a grad course won't be available to them. Isn't quantitative finance the application of maths , statistics and computer science to finance-like any engineering discipline? So whats difficult in there for someone with an engineering not to fit in? In nigeria,choose engineering over maths and if in developed western countries,whatever you're best at.

buscojnr:
Engineering is the best of the options. If those who said u shd choose mathematics are current with weekly job adverts, am sure they will nt mention mathematics .although, with degree in mathematics,u can work any where.

calculator123:
thanks but i stick with my maths/stats programme.

Durentt:
am a pure mathematics student

ccaramel:
Don't know about others but Statiticians make very good money in Canada!

laplace19:
Calculator123.... from your replies I can deduce you have already made up your mind to study mathematics because of the love you have for calculations and also already a sophomore in a Nigerian university. Hence, agreeing that mechanical engineering is better than mathematics will demoralise you.

But be it as it may, Mechanical engineering will always be better than mathematics as long as naija is concerned...

However, don't console yourself with this "I will do my masters in mathematics outside the country"... As freshers back then, every student dreams of doing his/her masters outside Nigeria, but at the end only few will travel outside the country to pursue their masters... The question now is "how sure or convinced are you that you're gonna be among the few to travel outside for their masters"....

#done#

stanisbaratheon:




wow that's good. You work as an engineer in an oil servicing company doing what exactly??

ademoladeji:


Now, I get you...

It's my opinion to vote Mechanical Engineering above Mathematics and/or Statistics.

Entrepreneurship

Which has more prospect in this regard? I'm not saying Mathematicians don't do well buh how do you setup a 'Mathematics' organisation with little or no capital asides being a maths teacher?
As a Mechanical Engineering graduate, you cld even decide to teach Maths n Physics at will. You cld go into HVAC, HSE, Piping designs, Water reticulation design... Designing alone could just be it...


On a larger scale, Mathematics MIGHT be at par with Mechanical Engineering because outside the shores of this country, the story is always in reverse to what we have.

So, irrespective of the course, the zeal and passion of studying usually goes a very long way in determining how successful and happy a person will be.

#NoDescrimination

calculator123:
no disputing the fact,but hey i still can work as a engineer with ma degree in maths.

ademoladeji:


Now, I get you...

It's my opinion to vote Mechanical Engineering above Mathematics and/or Statistics.

Entrepreneurship

Which has more prospect in this regard? I'm not saying Mathematicians don't do well buh how do you setup a 'Mathematics' organisation with little or no capital asides being a maths teacher?
As a Mechanical Engineering graduate, you cld even decide to teach Maths n Physics at will. You cld go into HVAC, HSE, Piping designs, Water reticulation design... Designing alone could just be it...


On a larger scale, Mathematics MIGHT be at par with Mechanical Engineering because outside the shores of this country, the story is always in reverse to what we have.

So, irrespective of the course, the zeal and passion of studying usually goes a very long way in determining how successful and happy a person will be.

#NoDescrimination

calculator123:
are speaking frm the nigerian context

calculator123:
what of an M.ENG,i can do so using bsc maths.

Durentt:
i still disagree with u

Durentt:
see talk lik plantain. Keep deceiving ursef mech stds up to 80% mathematics courses? Then its math dat isn't broad nd hard shey? Move frm mech to math, you'll understand why khaki is not leather

laplace19:
Calculator123.... from your replies I can deduce you have already made up your mind to study mathematics because of the love you have for calculations and also already a sophomore in a Nigerian university. Hence, agreeing that mechanical engineering is better than mathematics will demoralise you.

But be it as it may, Mechanical engineering will always be better than mathematics as long as naija is concerned...

However, don't console yourself with this "I will do my masters in mathematics outside the country"... As freshers back then, every student dreams of doing his/her masters outside Nigeria, but at the end only few will travel outside the country to pursue their masters... The question now is "how sure or convinced are you that you're gonna be among the few to travel outside for their masters"....

#done#

Freciprocal:


Wireline Engineering... Basically acquiring petrophysical data from drilled or existing well.

ademoladeji:


Just givin you a case study of Entrepreneurship...

Do you really think it's easy to set up a business outside of this country? Be it in Europe or America?

martineverest:
I know u are arrogant and pained mathematician..... Have u opened advanced engineering maths?.

stanisbaratheon:



exactly, that why i'm just following him meticulously

calculator123:
nothing is easy Bro.i love being an enterpreneur,the major reasons i want a degree is to equip me with the necessart skills

Freciprocal:


Wireline Engineering... Basically acquiring petrophysical data from drilled or existing well.

destino24:


You'll have to do a lot of Engineering undergraduate courses before starting the graduate courses. Oh! And that's for someone who has a bachelors from their accredited universities

ademoladeji:


I was only taking my argument from Entrepreneurial view.

It's easier with engineering I must confess.

May God see you through whatever decision you take

calculator123:
hmmm.i have seen many unemployed engineering grads,frm chem to elect to even mech....what do u gat to say abt that.

calculator123:
no,guess it a co incidence

Durentt:
those people are in d in 12th century then. Rubbish.
Even some engineering graduates are now regretting, wishing they did mathematics. Go ask any sound literate, they wud tell u to choose math over engineering.

Cc
Lalasticlala
Richiez FP please

stanisbaratheon:



okay i get it. The fact still remains that a mathematician cannot i repeat cannot do the job of an enginner. You acquire data from drilled/existing wells. That job description sounds more statistical to me, hence a mathematician/statistician's job.

Freciprocal:
I believe many pple are confusing mathematics (BSc) with Mathematics (BEd)

There is a huge difference! I got similar discrimination while studying Mathematics in school. The truth is the only regret in studying mathematics, is if u don't come out with a good grade.

There is a point most folks forget to understand. You are employed based on ur aptitude.

Even with your 1st class in Mech Engineering, the company still has to train u cos the engineering curriculum in ur university does not translate to what is applicable.

To those mentioning banks and other coys... you would still be trained. So the smarter and more intelligent u are (irrespective of Maths or Mech Engr) the better your chances.

calculator123:
pls do u mind explaining