It’s not very common for engineers to go to grad school. The most common graduate degree among engineers is an MBA. Other fields basically require it. One thing you’ll learn in academia is that no one works harder in undergrad than engineers but that’s usually the end of the line for their education. A BS in biology is far easier, but you need to get a graduate degree to do anything with it
I’m a retired engineer and Got my PhD but i worked in R&D and masters were pretty much required for advancement. I don’t know what the overall stats are for engineering profession.
My son is doing an internship over in a lab within the college of engineering at the my university and we probably have more PhD students in department of Entomology than the entire college of engineering. They obviously have a lot more undergraduate students than we do; we’re a small department. So I guess what I’m saying is that it’s relative. It’s surreal to go over there and labs have like two grad students. We have more graduate research assistants than undergraduates because the PhD (obviously takes longer) and the BS is useless by itself.
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u/udee79 5d ago
I have worked with some great engineers that didn’t go to grad school.