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Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Circuits, power grids, signals and telecommunications.
Who it suits
RIC
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more reserved than average.
Builds on
Physics ●●●Mathematics ●●●Computer science ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology
Where it leads
Electrical engineer · Electronics engineer · Power systems engineer · RF engineer
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$69,868
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
2,088 programmes tracked
🇩🇪 Germany 653🇫🇷 France 619🇺🇸 United States 408🇫🇮 Finland 248🇦🇺 Australia 106🇦🇹 Austria 27🇨🇭 Switzerland 27
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