Engineering >>> Physics ?

Hi, somehow i've got the feeling that engineering has a higher value and is more versatile in the (e.g.) US than Physics.

http://web.mit.edu/research/category/ph.html#links
Institutes for Physics....

http://web.mit.edu/research/category/nano.html#links

http://web.mit.edu/research/category/ee.html#links

http://web.mit.edu/research/category/bio.html#links

For engineering just to mention a few.

In the country i live in, Physics is still highly regarded and engineering here is too conservative in my opinion.

What to do?
Go for Engineering here and try to go to the US for the Master?

I don't think that i can apply with a Bachelor in Physics for Engineering programmes, especially since here the courses are strictly regulated and given.

in america i hear from physics grads that the physics jobs that are available are generally given to competent engineers, because they can physics and do other things. (US)

also apparently it is sometimes difficult to obtain graduate funding for physics in america.

Oh i see.
Then i will be better going to study Engineering.

Or Biophysics or Engineering Physics.

>>1
Physics is usually highly regarded by the general populace, but in the US, few jobs have use for it.

Engineering is probably your best bet if you don't love physics.  I don't trust engineering physics, since it's basically a half assed version of both.  Biophysics/bioengineering might be a better option.  Electrical engineering/ computer science = $$

You better go for engineering if you want to "see" something in your lifetime.

Physics for what? Only for your own satisfaction, cause even if you are successful, you won't get to see what one can make out of your success.
The process is to slow.

>>4
I am studying engineering physics at the university of oklahoma and it is not half assed. it is ABET accredited. you take all of the physics courses the physics majors take and ~6 3000 - 4000 level engineering courses in what ever field you choose. though this might differ in other universities and in colleges outside the US. but what you should take depends on what you want to do. if you know you want to be an engineering than major in an engineering field. if you are not sure like i was than engineering physics is a good choice since it exposes you to both.

>>2
I have heard just the opposite but they are usually talking about   a Phd in physics. then you have a very wide range of job opertunities. about 70% of physics graduates go into indestry working for companies like intel, ratheon, IBM, boeing, etc and a some work for bussinesses doing technical consulting and the like since their math skill are far greater than bussiness majors. and by taking physics you will have a much better understanding of physics than an engineer. since they take different physics courses and the physics for physics majors focus more on understainding the concepts rather than just being able to do it.

>>6
That's certainly not half assed, but that's a crap ton of work for a single major.  You were probably better off with a double major.

Physics trains you to think logically and analytically, but I'll be damned if IBM had use for GR (aside from corrections for GPS).  The PhD teaches you to research, and little else.

>>5
That's a horribly selfish way of thinking.

>>8

Muhahaha.

It is ME I and MINE

>>8
It's a pretty ignorant way of thinking, mostly, because it's also just wrong.