your choice of study need to be ascertained once you have decided your life’s goal backed up by your understanding and analysis of your natural abilities and inclinations. If Yiur question is to understand creating best job opportunities, then it’s a different approach. Life has more to it than a job.

Most of the engineers in India become software professionals which primarily starts with writing computer programmes with contemporary tools. This is utter waste of engineering study. A good science degree enables you to do the same. Good means your learning and internalising the concepts, ability to analyse a situation, to break down apparent big problem into its smalller parts and resolving them effectively.

So, depending on what you want to do in life, your study should be aligned to it. I do not see any disadvantage in any course of study so long first criteria of its selection has been made judiciously. I know lot of science graduates who are very successful in life; civil services, entrepreneurs, management and leadership.

It’s you that matters, ascertain your strengths and weaknesses, align it to your life’s goal and then chose what you want to study. Education is enabler to fulfil you life’s dream.