Full ride vs Navy Nuke

[robofet998]

I have been considering about becoming a nuke ever since a family friend suggested it to me a few years ago. I am now a senior in high school who has take the ASVAB and I earned a 95. I plan to enter the military as either a nuke or in the reserves of one of the branches of the military. The only reason I am not 100% going to become a nuke is because I have been offered books tuition and fees at an ABET accredited university in my area for any engineering program. I know that there are a lot of benefits dealing with becoming a nuke though such as the reputation and the demand companies have for nukes as well as the experience. So I ask you all as current and former nukes which opportunity you believe would give the brightest future. Going full ride to a university for engineering while being a part of the reserves in some branch of the military or becoming a navy nuke?

[TVA]

Demand? LMAO

[liam]

You would not be very smart passing up a full ride at school for riding subs.  Get a degree and then become an officer if you really want to go into the military.

[retired nuke]

Nuke is dying field. The demand right now is to find places for laid off workers from closed plants to land. 1 location is building a new plant. That's it. 4 more plants shutting down in next couple of years.
You got a ride for Engineering school?
Try electrical - grid stability and solar are what is going to be driving electricity in the future.
Do the degree, be in the reserves if you like.

[Chimera]

Go for the degree first.  If you still want to be a "nuke", do it as an officer.  That path will give you the widest range of things to do when you get older.  Insofar as the degree goes, I would recommend EE (first) or Mechanical (second choice).  If I had been smarter when I was your age, that's what I should have done.