[Jach]

I'd echo another commenter to optimize for your earnings: pick the one thing out of many that seems to have the highest starting salary, and go for it. That is, if you think you'll be happy with a specialized career...

For myself, I like a lot of different aspects of both software and hardware (but pure software more-so) and I think it's really hard to sell yourself as a generalist in hardware unless you're joining a startup. I successfully advertised myself as a software generalist and that led to a decently paying job after graduation from my CE program where my career trajectory for what I'll be doing in 5 years isn't really fixed. I like FPGAs and embedded RTOSs and radar applications, and I like web apps and game programming and databases, but it scares the crap out of me to think that I'd have a 20-40 year career with a single focus on just one of those (and have to relegate all my alternate interests to side projects, if I can muster the time and energy for them). Some people are born for that, I'm not. Just be sure you know for yourself which you are before making a big decision...