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Metric system is superior, but we still don't use it in scientific measurements. Yes, all your classes in school will stick with the metric system, because it is better, but in actual engineering applications we still use the crappy US system. How much fun when you get to use the Rankine scale to talk about temperature!

In engineering or all of the sciences? Because in biology (at least my university's biology department) the metric system is exclusively used.

The "pure" sciences I think (and hope) use metric. My high school's physics class exclusively uses metric, but my dad as an engineer has to use the English system because that's what industry still uses. When they tried to switch to metric, they notated the quantity of fuel an airplane needed in kilograms but some idiot filled the plane up as though the units were pounds instead. This, as you can imagine, caused quite a scare, and so industry refused to change. Research labs, however, are probably more receptive to the metric system. As an aside, have you seen the definitions given for English system measurements? They're defined in terms of metric units! One inch is defined as being 2.54 cm exactly, so it has no independent meaning and is just a relic of a broken system.