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Highest paying engineering field?
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What is the highest paying engineering field
Just wondered what you guys thought to this. Obviously there’s going to be some bias votes (try not to vote biasly) but would like to know anyway. I'm curently on foundation year and have the following to choose from next year btw, if your wondering why some engineering fields arn't shown.
edit: just realised this thread is a bit selfish, and I should have included more options. If you think another field deserves your vote, mention it in this thread and vote from the list anyway.
edit: just realised this thread is a bit selfish, and I should have included more options. If you think another field deserves your vote, mention it in this thread and vote from the list anyway.
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Reply 1
are you basing your choice only upon which will give you the highest pay or are there other factors coming in?
Reply 3
Should you not also add Aeronautical engineering? or is that incorporated into one of the other categories? (sorry if thats the case)
Pretty much decided that I'm gonna do civil, but if there was a huge difference in saleries between the different fields I might be swayed as I have little preference to what I want to do.
Like said in my previous post I should have included all other fields to make this more helpful to other people. Fot that I'm sorry. But the courses in the poll are the ones that are available to me after my foundation course.
Thanks guys
Like said in my previous post I should have included all other fields to make this more helpful to other people. Fot that I'm sorry. But the courses in the poll are the ones that are available to me after my foundation course.
Thanks guys
Reply 5
EPD
Statistically, in terms of graduate starting salaries, I believe Chemical Engineers earn the most.
:dito: ^
Reply 6
It is chemical, statistically and through experience.
Reply 7
according to the loughborough maths revision thingy its chemical engineers...chemical isn't even ther!
Reply 9
Eau
Stupid and random question:
Do you need a degree in chemical engineering to be a chemical engineer?
Do you need a degree in chemical engineering to be a chemical engineer?
No, but it helps. I know a Maths Grad working as a Chem/Process Engineer at work, for example.
Reply 11
What exactly classifies as 'phenominal'?
Purely out of interest
Purely out of interest
Eau
Stupid and random question:
Do you need a degree in chemical engineering to be a chemical engineer?
Do you need a degree in chemical engineering to be a chemical engineer?
You didn't used to.
Most local men work in the oil industry, or proximity to Aberdeen lends itself to it, and most of them hold senior posts.
They would have entered the oil industry at the age of 16, most with no qualifications and just worked their way up - almost in a kind of apprenticeship way.
Yes, you do have to sit professional exams to proceed to the higher ranks but these men often hold the same posts as some Chemical Engineers.
Of course, Chemical Engineers graduate, spend a few years until they can get chartered and swoop into these top positions in their late 20s where other men have taken a number of decades to get there...
Generally, though, a Chemical Engineer works onshore and labourers work offshore.
Look here - Chemical Engineering
It says 60K but that's a conservative estimate, in my experience. They say that's what doctors earn but a lot of GPs get 100K plus too.
Get into the right industry and you can be earning mountains.
It says 60K but that's a conservative estimate, in my experience. They say that's what doctors earn but a lot of GPs get 100K plus too.
Get into the right industry and you can be earning mountains.
Reply 15
So do you think UCL chem eng with appropriate experience would get me a good paying job? (in the region you've mentioned really lol)
lol)Reply 16
Guitarman5
So do you think UCL chem eng with appropriate experience would get me a good paying job? (in the region you've mentioned really lol)
lol)Yeah, I'd like to think so. In engineering, a degree is a degree - despite where you get it (as long as it's a half decent uni, which UCL happens to be)
Reply 18
Yeah, plus apparently 50% of UCL Chem eng grads end up working in The City which is where the huge salaries are (£1,500,000 a year would not be unrealistic after bonuses etc have been taken into account if all goes well).
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