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is a systems engineering major or systems engineering degree worth it that's what we're going to be talking about today and let's jump right into it first thing we need to ask is what the heck is systems engineering systems engineering is all about building managing and analyzing a system whether that be technology chemical mechanical electrical etc so the best way to describe this is let's say you have a car so obviously the mechanical part of the car is going to be the engine but you also have an electrical component to the car so you have electricity running to the lights etc and then on top of that you might have some computer engineers working on it to create the hardware part of things and some software engineers working on it to create the software side so as a systems engineer you'd be working with all of these different types of engineers and you'd have some expertise in every single category so you know a little bit about mechanical electrical etc and you'd make sure that everything is gelling together and working together to create that final product which is the car so in some ways systems engineering is sort of like engineering mixed with project management now as always i'm going to talk about four different categories here first we're going to be talking about the earning potential or salary ing to pay scale you're going to make around 74 000 a year starting out and 132 000 in mid career pay so if you compare that to a really high paying degree and a really low paying one it's definitely on the higher paying side this one is excellent now systems engineering as a career is relatively new and so bls doesn't have it listed it's also pretty rare however one similar career might be an engineering manager and this would make a lot of sense because systems engineers are kind of overseeing everyone else anyways so it's sort of a managerial position right off the bat so as an engineering manager you'd make around 144 000 a year and 69 an hour but there are technically a lot of different career paths you could go down you could work as a different type of engineer like a mechanical engineer or you could work as a project manager i will say that most of these career paths are going to be very well paid and if you look at engineering degrees in general over a lifetime they make around 3.5 million which is much higher than the average degree which is 2.4 million and combining this engineering skill set with some business skills as well that you would learn with the project management side of things is a great combination in my opinion and so this one easily is going to get a 9 out of 10 when it comes to salary next we're going to be talking about satisfaction and i like to divide this one into meaning as well as job satisfaction so when it comes to meaning which is basically how much you think your career positively impacts the world this one has a score of 54 now you can compare that to a really good one radiation therapy or a bad one like plastics engineering technology and you'll see that it's on the higher side maybe average now if you look at meaning for a specific career systems engineer is going to be relatively rare so let's go ahead and use aerospace engineer it's around 64 and 71 when it comes to job satisfaction which is above average if you compare it to a really good one and a bad one so when it comes to satisfaction it's extremely subjective for one person it could be like a 10 out of 10 amazing career and for another person it would be 1 out of 10 and you'd want to quit as soon as possible now when it comes to how much people regret getting a degree engineering is the third least regretted type of degree only around 15 percent of people regret it and the reason for that is because sometimes some of the better jobs require advanced degrees so a master's or a doctorate however this is one of them that might fall under that category and the reason for that is because generally if you work as a systems engineer it's because you have several years of experience the fact that you know quite a bit about you know several different areas electrical mechanical etc that kind of shows that you probably have some experience working kind of hands-on with those people and so you're probably not going to be able to do that right out of school but with that being said let's say you don't end up working as a systems engineer i think this one is relatively flexible or maybe you do end up working as a systems engineer and you don't like it again you're going to have a plan b you're going to be able to do other things relatively easily because of the skill set that you learned you're going to have some really good business knowledge as well as engineering knowledge and there's so many different careers out there that you could do well in with that skill set i do like to always say that keep in mind it could have a lot to do with the place you work the people you work with the company you work for the industry you work in etc there's so many different factors that are going to influence job satisfaction and so this is kind of just very subjective so take this section with a grain of salt for you it might be a 10 out of 10 and the only way you're going to know is if you just really research it and look into it and you know what you enjoy what your passions are what your strengths are etc but with that being said when it comes to the objective measures that i always look up on these it scores pretty well i'm going to give this one an 8 out of 10. next we're going to be talking about demand and when it comes to demand engineering degrees can be a little bit weird so i've talked about quite a bit on this channel how some of the classical or traditional career paths that are supposed to be amazing just because of the fact that they've been so popular for decades a lot of the time they end up getting saturated so some examples of this would be lawyer of course you know there's a lot of very unhappy lawyers out there you know their parents told them that they need to become a lawyer they got into it and they end up extremely unhappy because it's saturated and it's super competitive and it's not nearly as good as it's made out to be engineering to some extent has gotten a little bit saturated as well it's definitely not as good as it used to be so for instance if you look up an engineering manager you're going to see that it's only growing at about three percent so there's 198 000 engineering manager jobs and that means over the next 10 years 5 100 new jobs are going to be created if you look at electrical engineer it's kind of the same thing 328 000 jobs growing at 3 which is average meaning over the next 10 years 10 800 new jobs are going to pop up so when you first look at this you might think it's not a good idea to go into these careers and i have to admit that is a little bit of a red flag but it's not the full story one thing that you should keep in mind when it comes to these engineering degrees is even if you don't end up becoming a systems engineer or an electrical engineer a lot of the time just because of the fact that you got one of these degrees companies are going to respect you and they'll hire you for jobs that might not have anything to do with engineering a lot of companies have the hiring philosophy of they just want to hire the smartest possible people and the people that are the hardest workers and they're familiar with engineers and they know that they're very smart and very hard working and so a lot of the time they'll give them a chance but with that being said when you compare systems engineering to something like mechanical engineering most hiring managers and business managers are much more familiar with mechanicals so when they see a systems engineer they might be a little bit confused it's almost like because of the fact that mechanical's so popular it has real estate in people's brains and they have a lot of reference experience where they've likely hired a mechanical engineer before and they probably had a pretty good experience whereas they don't have any experience with systems engineers so that can be a little bit of a disadvantage and it can make it a little bit harder for you to get your first job now of course once you've got a couple years of experience and you've built skills it'll be much easier for you to get your second job after that now when it comes to unemployment stem degrees tend to be pretty good their unemployment rates are relatively low of course who knows what's going to happen you know in 2020 everything is just totally out of whack right now but engineering degrees tend to be some of the better performing stem degrees when it comes to unemployment as well now in my opinion systems engineering is very new okay it's kind of one of the new kids to the block but i think this one is going to really take off in the next 10 to 20 years it's not amazing right now but or at least there's not a lot of data in my opinion that shows that it's amazing right now but i think it's kind of a dark horse candidate i think it's going to be one of the best engineering degrees if you look back at this video 10 or 20 years from now it's just a great combination of business skills and engineering skills and you can do things that nobody else has the ability to do so for instance if you look up systems engineering degree on monster.com you're going to see that there's 31 000 job postings that have that as a keyword and that's with less than a thousand people graduating with a systems engineering degree every year right now so a less than a thousand people graduating and 30 000 people posting about the degree to me that looks like a good sign you can compare that to a degree that has lots of demand like computer science or one that doesn't have much demand at all like anthropology on top of that engineering degrees in general even though people might not necessarily be searching them out you see when you survey big companies and you ask them what types of majors are they hiring engineering is usually at the very top so business majors and engineering majors are almost always number one or number two so with that being said when it comes to demand this one scores pretty well i'm going to go ahead and give it an 8 out of 10. next we're going to be talking about x factors this is anything that's important that i didn't already mention so first of all when it comes to how much you make over a lifetime i already mentioned engineering degrees make around 3.5 million whereas the average degree only makes around 2.4 engineering degrees are by far the highest now i will mention here that you know this is the last 40 years as a sense of data census data from the last 40 years or so so maybe the next 40 years computer science will be number one or something else who knows but the cool thing to look at when it comes to engineering degrees is it really doesn't matter what career path you go down they tend to be extremely high paying so for instance people who go into arts still make around three million dollars a year over their lifetime which is much higher than average it's pretty much good across the board so even if you don't end up becoming an engineer it's still probably going to be a good investment now if you look at ziprecruiter's skills index i was shocked to see that systems engineering is actually on there and it's really shocking to see this because it's such a rare degree and it's a pretty rare profession as well so it came in at 69 out of 100 and you can compare that to a really good one and a really bad one and you'll see that it's definitely on the better side so this is a skill that a lot of companies are looking for they're looking for people who are skilled when it comes to systems engineering and when it comes to automation i couldn't find this exact career but pretty much all of the engineering degrees range from zero percent chance to 10 chance so very low chance that it's going to be automated on top of that pretty low chance that it's going to be outsourced as well pretty much most of the time you have to be there in person in order to be an effective systems engineer or really just any type of engineer because engineers are basically the middleman between a scientist and a technician so you're going to get your hands dirty sometimes you're going to be there touching things you know solving problems figuring out what's going on and you're also going to be behind the scenes sometimes as well and i also mentioned here that engineering degrees create the most millionaires and billionaires and i think the reason for that is because engineers make amazing entrepreneurs engineering is pretty much just practical problem solving and that's what entrepreneurship is all about at the end of the day so that's why engineering is so flexible there's tons of different career paths you can go down and on top of that it makes a really good prerequisite to becoming an entrepreneur now i always like to mention here as well that engineering is very tough okay pretty much any type of engineering major engineering degree is going to be extremely difficult keep that in mind if you want to pursue this degree and you also want to enjoy college that's going to be pretty difficult for you unless you're a genius but overall i am going to give this one a 9 out of 10 when it comes to x factors i think that it's not very good right now i think that if you want to play it safe and you may want to become a systems engineer in the future but you want to play it safe i would recommend maybe just getting a mechanical engineering degree and then working towards becoming a systems engineer somewhere down the line but in my opinion and i have to admit this is a total prediction i think this one is going to be very good in the next 10 to 15 years but again if you want to play it safe but you're still interested in systems engineering you might want to just get a mechanical engineering degree because spoiler i'm wrong sometimes okay at the end of the day this is just my opinion i do tons of research on this and i try to give you guys really good information but it's just my opinion make sure you do your own research make sure you plan things out talk to people who are systems engineers and you'll get some really good insight so some of the pros here salaries great just like pretty much any type of engineering degree there's a good amount of different specializations that you can go down here the skill set that you learn is going to be extremely flexible even for an engineering degree and i think there's going to be good demand and opportunities especially in the next 10 to 20 years i think a lot of companies are going to invest heavily in people who have the skill set of systems engineering some of the cons here are that it's a very competitive occupation there are people who have different degrees outside of this like mechanical engineers for instance that can take your job whereas you wouldn't necessarily be able to take their jobs nearly as easily the workload can also be very challenging project management is tough in general and then when you add on the technical side of things the systems engineering part that can make it even more difficult and on top of that you may need lots of experience so you might have to work you know five or ten years before you can actually become a systems engineer overall though i am going to give this one an 8.5 out of 10. i'm very bullish on this one it's one of the most exciting uh careers out there in my opinion now if you want help researching your college degree but you don't want to wait for me to make a video about it check out my college degree ranker down in the description below it is in my patreon i worked really hard on it and i think it's the best resource out there right now it's version one pretty soon uh when things calm 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