Odds of Getting In
So you've managed to earn your engineering degree. What could you possibly have to worry about? Don't they just give engineers jobs in gift baskets at graduation?
Sure, it's tempting to think materials engineers are set for life. How could someone who trained in nanotechnology and biomimetics and metallurgy and other long, complicated-sounding words be unemployed? How could materials engineering end up on a list of the "25 College Majors with the Highest Unemployment Rates"?
Oh, but they have. In a study of recent STEM graduates under twenty-eight years of age, 24% were working part-time and 13% were working in positions that didn't call for any college education. Pair that with average to lower-than-average job growth, and your chances of getting into this profession are looking less than secure. Bet on this career, but don't go all in.