STEM career/course advice

[vagrant peak]

Hi, I’m currently in year 11, and I enjoy stem related subjects like the sciences and maths. For University I cannot decide what course I should choose. I was considering architecture for a while until last year but I decide I want to do more hands-on stuff rather than designing on a computer all day.

I’m currently thinking of astonautical engineering (like building space telescopes, stations etc or just in general things that are needed outside of earth’s atmosphere) but Imperial College London(my dream college) doesnt offer it. I’m a little stuck, maybe I could change the course to physics or mechanical engineering… I’m not really sure 😓.

I enjoy biology too, perhaps biotech engineering. I chose chem, physics, and double maths for my A levels but I can switch.

For the summer I’m gonna start preparing for olympiads and read more about physics(and the course I chose to pursue in uni but i cant decide which course I should)

Help

[peak sigil]

I was (and still am) considering aerospace eng too and my uni advisor told me you can get a bachelor's in mech engineering and a masters in aerospace

[foggy tundra]

why not js do aerospace bachelors

asw

[foggy tundra]

imperials course actually has a lot of what you want

so its probs one of your best options

southampton is excellent asw

[peak sigil]

very niche field

a bachelor's in mech has alot of opportunities

or you can just steal a sandevistan and be a night city cyberpunk

[foggy tundra]

aerospace is not niche?

at least not in europe and america

[foggy tundra]

word

cyberpeak

[foggy tundra]

its relavant to a lot of fields

automotive industry, motorsport, defence

any kind of consumer product with fans

[slow cosmos]

I think people talked enough about the courses itself but I want to give my 2 cents on this

The uni you are going to determines 3, or 4 years MAX of your life while a course you choose is going to be with you for much longer

So please don't compromise your passion for a subject just to go to a university

But if you want to do mech eng at imperial and then do aerospace somewhere else, its a good compromisation ^^

[hushed harness]

Are you implying imperial is meh?

[slow cosmos]

compromisation as in they get to go to their dream uni and work in field they want

imperial is on the opposite side of meh

[foggy tundra]

imperial has aeronautical engineering anyway

no point doing mech first

[peak sigil]

relative to other engineering majors it kind of is

also its more competitive than niche

[foggy tundra]

its niche compared to maybe civil mechanical and electrical

but theres a lot of jobs in it

and it covers a lot of mechanical content asw and is the most maths heavy engineering discipline

making it a lot more versatile than you'd think