Engineering Majors: You’re Hired!!
Students graduating this year with an engineering degree are finding the job market surprisingly robust.
“The demand for our EE and ME students this year continues to be strong,” says Mark Sorenson-Wagner, director of the Career Center for Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The school is graduating about 350 engineering students this year, some 55% of whom have already found full-time jobs.
“More students this year received offers early, and more students are receiving multiple offers,” Sorenson-Wagner tells us, clear evidence of an economy that’s warming up.
About two-thirds of those students will stay in Minnesota, followed by Houston, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco as the most popular destinations for work.
Engineering majors historically tend to have less trouble finding jobs in their chosen field than their counterparts with liberal arts degrees. But during the recent recession, engineering schools saw larger numbers of students choosing to wait it out and going to grad school.
That trend is changing. At the University of Massachusetts, 10% of students with EE degrees went on to pursue advanced degrees in 2013, down from a high of 22% during the sluggish job market between 2009 and 2012.
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