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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Physics majors are very employable in the current environment.  Wall Street, defense, aerospace, the intelligence community, Silicon Valley… the list goes on.  Physics majors tend to have the deepest quantitative skills of any major. The kind of math and computer science used in physics lends itself to the more intellectually complex algorithms in machine learning. A BS in physics can typically lead to multiple job offers. [/quote]
This sounds completely made up.  [b]The engineers at my undergrad took more math classes, progressing further, than the physics majors.[/b]

Physics majors will also be paid less than a student with an engineering degree.  [/quote]

It's common for physics majors to delve into math subjects like real analysis and Lie algebra. Did your engineering friends take these?[/quote]
My undergrad had an advanced math class that came after the standard math series that was a catch all of different advanced math topics that are helpful for engineering. Unfortunately the title is something like "advanced math for engineering" and it doesn't have a syllabus online.  Not super helpful as a message board example.  But Case Western has clearly posted their degree requirements, so I'll use it as an example.

CWRU's physics major stops at Diff Eq: [url]https://share.google/3agXTvKBMkG0SaoS5[/url]

CWRU's Electrical Engineering degree also only requires Diff Eq but additional math classes, including Linear Algebra, are recommended as technical electives: [url]https://share.google/PBTrbplJ4qZFjk005[/url][/quote]

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