What engineering degree gives the best job prospects?
Categories: Engineering Degrees
It’s hard to see how engineers are needed in society. I’ve needed the services of a doctor, lawyer nurse but I can’t say I’ve ever employed an engineer.
There are so many specialities to engineering and I’m just wondering which is the best bet.
I already have a biological science degree but honestly it’s about as useful as toilet paper.
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The very fact that you can’t see what engineers are doing actually shows how well they do it. The computer you are using right now for example was designed an engineered by teams of engineers. Best job in the world if you ask me.
My advice (having recruited over 50 engineers) is to get a generalist engineering degree (from a good university if possible). Medical engineering does have excellent job prospects but the specific Medical Engineering degrees available aren’t as useful and the general degrees. So either a mechanical, electrical of software engineering degree would serve you best.
If salary matters then currently softies get paid the most and mechanical engineers get paid the least but this is simply supply and demand and with every diving into software engineering there will soon be a shortage of mechanical engineers so the salary balance will shift.