Hello! I was wondering if it is better to major in civil engineering than just majoring in environmental? I read a comment that all civil engrs. can be environmental eng. but not the other way around.

Great question, Karen! Civil engineering is much broader than environmental engineering, and will expose you to much more content & potential career paths (e.g., geotechnical engineering, materials engineering, transportation engineering, structural engineering, construction engineering). So I recommend that everyone elect civil engineering, unless they are absolutely certain that environmental engineering is their profession of choice for the long term. Most engineering students eventually go on to graduate studies, so they get the specialization they need in their specific discipline during a year of two of Master’s degree work. Of couse, some continue for the PhD. In my case, I had just one class in transportation engineering as an undergraduate and am so lucky I considered that path. I learned everything I really needed during graduate school, and I feel like I landed in the best discipline the world has to offer!