By 1996, there were only 356,000 engineering majors, down nearly 20 percent from 13 years earlier, just before the decline began.

Not only may physics students work at the collider, but so can undergraduate engineering majors.

How do they compete for jobs with all those sensible accounting and engineering majors?

The course is notoriously difficult and required for all third-year students who are not engineering majors.

The upper-division course is required for some engineering majors.

They began as engineering majors and finished with business degrees.

In contrast to engineering majors, additional natural sciences (such as physics) are not required to complete the major.

During this period, there was an estimated 100% increase in the number of female science and engineering majors throughout the United States.

Mr. Hotaling said that of the 40 engineering majors who have passed through his fraternity house since 1993, only 3 are still in the area.

It is supposed to be equivalent to an introductory college course in mechanics for physics or engineering majors.