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materials science VS physics/engineering degree

username3477548

Which is more employable? which degree generally pays higher lol?
any thoughts/tips?

Thanks :smile:

Reply 1

Terablitz259

Original post by Qxi.xli

Which is more employable? which degree generally pays higher lol?
any thoughts/tips?

Thanks :smile:

Engineering is applying Physics and Maths to industry, and is generally more sought after and gives higher salaries. The other 2 are more niche and involve government funding for research.

Reply 2

username3477548

Original post by Terablitz259

Engineering is applying Physics and Maths to industry, and is generally more sought after and gives higher salaries. The other 2 are more niche and involve government funding for research.

ooh ok thanks for your reply :smile:

Reply 3

Sinnoh

A lot of the time in stats about graduate salaries, materials science is classed under 'engineering' so it's kind of hard to compare the two.

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/18-06-2020/sb257-higher-education-graduate-outcomes-statistics/salary
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/activities

these might be useful.

But it will also depend on where you go. Anyway for things that aren't directly related to either degree (e.g. finance) I don't think one is more employable over the other.

(edited 3 years ago)

Reply 4

JuliusDS92

Original post by Qxi.xli

Which is more employable? which degree generally pays higher lol?
any thoughts/tips?

Thanks :smile:

If you want to be an engineer, study engineering. If you don't, then pick whatever is most interesting, because your degree choice out of these three will have almost no impact on your expected earnings. Source: am physics grad, work with and know plenty of other STEM grads.