During undergrad, the most flexible degree has got to be engineering:
Provided one puts forth the honest effort, there are PLENTY of avenues the student can pursue. For example: while the electrical engineering job growth outlook sucks, these particular grads will be highly sought after by finance companies, industries outside of electrical engineering, even law schools will provide generous, if not, full scholarship provided their LSAT is excellent. Engineering is absolutely dynamic and the skills gained during the education will be priceless when navigating problems of any sort.
Let's switch gears to biology now. Let's be real, 99% of these people are pre-health. There will be the few that make it to medicine, PA, dentistry that have evolved tremendously due to its compatibility with technology and engineering. Let's look at pharmacy now: can someone explain how much we can do with verifying, dispensing, and counseling? Perhaps one pharmacist per store will be on staff to answer questions, but will companies REALLY pay them $100K to do such a thing? And what about the other unemployed pharmacists? Their skills really don't translate well to other fields, quite honestly. We are expected to get through with rote-memorization, and regurgitation of fancy verbatim. When corporations figure out the pharmacist's role is a high-expensed commodity, the majority of us are going to be in major trouble.
Ways around this if you are stuck in pharmacy school?
1. Learn another language. Find your desirable location of employment, research the demographic's nationality breakdown , and purchase Rosetta Stone. If this means more customers and scripts, employers will take you on board. Your job will still suck.
2. Get that pharmacy informatics residency, which is found in PGY-2. Positions are FEW, but supposedly this is a growing field. You better stand out of the 100+ applications.
3. Go to PA school, another 3 year commitment, but at least you'll be unique and marketable.
4. When your other options don't pan out, pray really hard and hope a miracle can bail you out of the inevitable mess.
