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title: "What can you do with an electrical and computer engineering degree?"
description: "14 careers electrical and computer engineering graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with an electrical and computer engineering degree?

**What the degree involves:** Circuits, signals, embedded systems, and labs where things occasionally smell burnt.

This degree sits between physics and software, and the destinations do too. Some graduates go deep into hardware, some into the embedded software that runs on it, and a large share cross fully into software or network engineering, where the degree is treated as interchangeable with computer science.

14 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 14 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 14 of 14 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Electrical Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-engineer) | $120,630 | +7.2% | 11,700 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | Electronics Engineer, Except Computer | $130,220 | +6.2% | 5,700 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | Computer Hardware Engineer | $161,740 | +7.3% | 4,700 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologist and Technician | $78,190 | +0.6% | 8,400 | Associate's |
| 5 | [Software Developer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/software-developer) | $135,980 | +15.8% | 115,200 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Computer Network Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-network-architect) | $134,050 | +11.9% | 11,200 | Bachelor's |
| 7 | Computer Systems Engineers/Architect | $116,580 | +8.2% | 31,300 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Telecommunications Engineering Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/telecommunications-engineering-specialist) | $134,050 | +11.9% | 11,200 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | Microsystems Engineer | $122,930 | +2.1% | 9,300 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | Mechatronics Engineer | $122,930 | +2.1% | 9,300 | Bachelor's |
| 11 | [Validation Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/validation-engineer) | $102,440 | +11.0% | 25,200 | Bachelor's |
| 12 | Energy Engineer, Except Wind and Solar | $122,930 | +2.1% | 9,300 | Bachelor's |
| 13 | Information Security Engineer | $116,580 | +8.2% | 31,300 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager) | $171,270 | +3.8% | 14,500 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology