I joined engineering in 1997 and finished in 2001, during that time there were very less engineering colleges and average students usually did not get a chance to think about what is best course for them. As time moved ahead every state, specially south Indian states permitted many engineering colleges and gave students a chance to study their desired course.
This freedom also lead to the confusion among parents and students regarding the courses. Most of the parents see the market and trends to make a decision for their children. When I passed out in 2001 most of the dot com companies failed leaving many of us job less. During that everyone just ran for Electronics and communication engineering or Electrical Engineering. Adding more to depression, parents of first year students started ranking Computer Science below Civil Engineering. I wrote a general post about all engineering course and their prospects for details visit Engineering Courses: Future, Prospects, Institutes and Studies in India.
Instead of doing little research or listening to the people in the industry most of parents just read news paper to make conclusions, which in long run make a deep impact on career and in turn whole life. Presently due to the global recession and Stayam scandal, ones again most of the people are in dilemma about Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering.
Every time I visit India, many of my relatives and known people visit me for seeking advise regarding engineering courses. This always made me to think about the latest courses and their scope in view of a middle class family. Speciallly for girls, Parents are always worried about which is the best engineering course for girls? Instead of directly taking to my advise in this regard I would like mention a little about most popular engineering streams first and leave to make a decision. But I also give a choice of my preference.
Engineering is a basically a combination of theory and practical. Keeping this in view and thinking about the course will help you to make decision about you choice. Let me start with Civil engineering, this is a wonderful course and almost every college have good infrastructure for this, both in terms of faculty and laboratories. On the other hand this is really a tough job and most of the going to sites and taking care of construction management stuff. You can not make good money in this field working for someone and starting own company need good investment and contacts, which is difficult for a common Indian family. Mechanical Engineering comes with similar issues.
Electronics and Electrical Engineering are very good and highly job oriented courses. No doubts and questions about that fact. But when it comes to faculty and practical experiments most of the colleges does not have sufficient infrastructure. Moreover after finishing most of these engineers work in software companies as there no sufficient companies who work in core areas of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
At last we are left with Computer engineering and IT. The infrastructure required for these courses is very easy to provide and if teaching is not good at college finding a tutor outside even in a small town is not a problem. More importantly when google, Microsoft and other top companies come for campus interviews they don’t allow any other stream than CS and IT.
Even after electrical or electronics engineering one goes to software jobs, more over top software companies do not allow them to appear for test and interview. Therefore, I don’t see any logic in going for these courses if computer science or IT is available. We have more software companies than any other companies. These companies pay good salaries and also give a chance for foreign assignments that will further enhance your personal and professional skills.
If I am the student or parent and need to select an engineering course, my order of preference will be.
1. Computer Science and Engineering
2. Information Technology
3. Electronics and Communication Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering
5. Mechanical Engineering
6. Civil Engineering
Once I am done with admission in any course, I will concentrate and work hard to be best in that course. Best in any field is always rare and respected. So I suggest all of you to work hard and live to the dreams of you parents and make them proud.
Have a wonderful luck with your admissions and post question if you some.
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Please make such list for M.TECH also.
Hi sir
now i have completed 2nd year. In B.tec which better and more jobs.
I have these topics. 1.Chemical engineering, Mechanical,Material science engineering,Civil engineering, ECE,CSE.
waiting for your response, pleassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssse……………….
I dont know who you are but ur blog is really encouraging. I m getting IT at one of d mice colleges of gujarat , but some of d people just come and say dat ” IT aur CE main ab kuch dam nahi raha” and i get really depressed!!!!!!!!!!!!
pls yaar , if u cud help me wid it !!!!
sir i’m keen to know the salary issues and job oppurtunities if we persue EEE course. pls reply
sir,
whats the difference between ece ,cse and eee—regarding job opportunities?
thank u sir for giving reply…..
sir i interested in CSE but someone told this demand is decrease.please tell me sir is really decrease? in future is this demand increase?
thank u for giving such a valuable information sir . i have chosen ec but many said that u might be landing in a job which will be totally different from ur studies but i need ur opinion sir……
sir,recently i got the eamcet rank and i am interested to take cse or mech but my parents are asking to take civil i am intersted in that too but my people are telling it will not be good for girl….please help me in taking right decision
sir/madam sorry v dont know who u r,vats d job oppurtunities regarding cse n it?will they get boom in forthcoming days.my family said dat it’ll b tough 2 get a job after completing these courses.im in a dilemma now.can u plz reply
Sir I am finish my diploma ECE and joined BE ECE
It is god course or not . what is the job for electronics?
what is the qualification to get job in this field?
please give immediate replay to me.
sir…
i am a rank holder in wbjee and i get a chance in a college for any stream in management khota. but i can not desite which stream is best for me. please give me a suggation for engineering in cs,it & mechanical .
sir i interested in CSE but someone told this demand is decrease.please tell me sir is really decrease? in future is this demand increase?
please mention such a course that provides the best of education and bestof salary options.
sir please suggest me i want to take computer sciences along with IT is it better for future waiting for your reply i got my rank 50159
so i how its bettr ppppppppppppppllllllleeeeeeeeessssssssseeeeeeeeee
hello sir,
i’m a 1st year engineering student in our school. I’ll be taking my major in my 3rd year. Please tell me what’s the best engineering course to take, my parents and i are arguing on which course should i take and which is in demand.
need your response.
thanks
which is best boitech engineering and civil engineering in india.and give me the some information for the scope of civil engineering n india.huw much cost for studying in abroad for ms in biotech enginering
Vasu: Both are different and have different future. Civil is a very matured field and there are very well defined jobs in that. Whereas, Biotech is picking up, and still in research phase. Therefore there are lot or research opportunities in Biotech. It depends what do you want to do. Want to sit in labs and work with chemical or comps go with Biotech, else Civil.
Whatever you take, work hard there no job for people dont want to work, whatever field they opt. Wish you good luck.
sir, i am really thankfull to you for your great advice regarding CSE and IT….. but this is 2010… can this be helpful to take CS or IT..
pleasr reply…. waiting..!
hello sir…………… i am doing BE ‘cs’ due to my illness i dint attend for my exams n got year back……….. do this affect me while getting into job and what are the additional courses which will b help full in dis competative world and should i do Ms r M.Tech n plz send ur feed back as soon as possible
Sir,I wanna know what are the applications/uses of studying ECE engineering course??????
hi sir. is aeronatical is a good course. we can get a good job.
sir pls help me i m realy confused to select my career . pls tell me what to took regarding job oppurtunies science , accounting and finance(mba) or computer science and it and which required less time
what about robotics and which are the best colleges for studying robotics?
Sir,i am studing inter 2nd year,i had interest in software engineering but some people are saying that is is not a right choice.So,please kindly suggest me at present which engineering is best and has good future.please suggest me.
good day
sir i finished my B.E (ECE) DEGREE(2009 BATCH).
I cant understand which is the way to get right job belongs to my profile.
I am asking everyone till (seniors & some what)but there also dont know about field
so finally i decided to join the course (software)
would you plz tell me sir which is the current & advanced course in a software field
I have lot of confusion
sir sorry we dont know who u r,whats the job oppurtunities regarding ECE they .my family said dat it’ll b tough 2 get a job after completing these courses.im in a dilemma now.can u plz reply