 The engineering degree tier list for 2023 and this video we are going to be ranking the best engineering degrees from S tier which is the best to F tier which is the worst. And if you appreciate these types of videos go ahead and slam that like button like I slam way too much coffee on a day to day basis. Nice. And let's jump into it. So I'm gonna have to go through these very quickly because of course there's a lot of engineering degrees and I don't want this to be like an hour long video. So number one on the list is going to be systems engineering. Now one thing that I'm adding into this year's list that I didn't have in last year's that is an improvement in my opinion is I'm going to be talking about the amount of demand at the entry level right so in the last year I've become a big fan of using LinkedIn to determine the demand of the career at the entry level and that's what I'm going to be adding onto this year's list and then I'm also going to be adding glass door as well because you're able to kind of separate things a little bit better than BLS. Alright so when you look at the early career pay for systems engineers you're going to see $72,000 a year mid-career pay is $130,000 that comes out to a salary score that according to my degree ranker is a 99.53 which is excellent. Now a few years ago when I made the college degree ranker the demand score for systems engineering was actually pretty low but we have seen an incredible increase in the last few years. So the demand score is 14 but we'll get to the change here in a moment and the meaning score is 55%. If you're not familiar with these scores just watch any one of my you know is a degree worth it videos and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. So according to glass door systems engineers make $111,000 a year and if you look on LinkedIn at the entry level you type in systems engineer you're going to see 70,151 results. That is really really good especially for an engineering career but you have to remember the degree is different than the career this is incredibly important this is key. So this is one of those very niche degrees right when you look at the degree ranker you're going to see 987 graduates per year so that's very niche but there is a lot of demand for systems engineers. So what this typically tells me is it's a pretty good degree it's not terrible by any means but you would probably be better off by getting a little bit more of a general degree and the reason for this I've explained it in many other videos is because employers are going to recognize the degree more often right it basically has a brand name built in and so getting something like a software engineering degree would probably be much better in this case and I just realized that I spent way too much time on that first one so I'm really going to try to speed up after this and of course I know I'm going to get people in the comments section oh you didn't spend enough time explaining but then if I'm detailed I'm going to get other people in the comments section saying oh this video is way too long you need to speed things up so you can never make everyone happy but I'll do my best. So last year systems engineering was b-tier this year I'm actually going to go ahead and put it into a tier. Next one on the list is agricultural engineering early career pay here is $59,000 mid-career pays 98,000 salary score is 65 which isn't great the demand score is 48 which also isn't great the meaning is going to be 62% which is good and the total amount of graduates is 1,063 per year agricultural engineers make $75,000 a year according to glass door and according to link then there's about 1,600 results at the entry level which isn't great so overall I'm going to have to put this one into D tier. Next one on the list is one of the best degrees out there and that is going to be software engineering so early career pay here is 69,000 mid-career pay is 112,000 salary score is 86 number of jobs available is an incredible 77,000 that means the demand score is off the charts at 127 but the meaning score is 39% so a lot of people don't find their jobs very meaningful. The total amount of bachelor graduates is 1,060 per year according to glass door software engineers make $105,000 a year and according to link then at the entry level there is a whopping 432,000 results mind-blowing so yeah I've talked about this before software engineering software development one of the best careers you can possibly go into just an insane amount of opportunity I actually interviewed Antoine on my channel recently who is somebody who started off at kind of like an entry level position in tech and then he moved into different positions until he ended up in tech sales and from tech sales he was able to actually make over 540,000 dollars a year and the cool thing about tech is once you've broken in it's really easy for you to actually move around to different positions this one is going to go into S tier so if you're somebody who wants to break into tech as fast as possible you want to make money really quickly you don't necessarily want to go through the whole 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there as well next on the list is going to be aerospace engineering so early career pay is 69,000 mid career pays 118,000 salary scores 89 that's pretty respectable the demand score is 100 the meaning is 58% which is decent and there are 4,000 bachelor grads per year according to glass store they make about $95,000 a year and on LinkedIn you're going to see about 15,000 results which is pretty decent so overall this one is going to go into a tier architectural engineering is next on the list and with this one you see an early career pay of $61,000 a year mid career pay is 97,000 salary score is relatively low for an engineering degree at 67 the demand score is 98 pretty good and meaning is 57% but there are only about 672 bachelor grads per year if you look up architectural engineering on glass store you're going to see $86,000 a year and if you look it up on LinkedIn you're going to see 14,400 results so this is one of those where there's not that many graduates but there's a lot of jobs and what that tells me is people are able to get these jobs by getting more general degrees so it's another one of those that's it's not bad by any means but you know especially engineering degrees most engineering degrees are pretty good but with that being said there's probably other engineering degrees that are better to get so this one is going to go into D tier biomedical engineering is next on the list and this one you're making $66,000 early career pay mid career pays 114,000 salary score is a respectable 83 demand score is 100 meaning is really good at 71% I believe that's actually the highest meaning score on the entire list and every year there's about 6,900 graduates according to glass door biomedical engineers make $84,000 a year and if you look up biomedical engineering on LinkedIn you're going to see 6,500 results now something that's not as clear in the data but it's actually a really big problem when you investigate it and look into it is that you can actually get into biomedical engineering with just a mechanical engineering degree right so you don't have to get a biomedical engineering degree to get into this so that's kind of a huge problem because you can get a mechanical engineering degree and get into this but if you get a biomedical engineering degree you're not going to be able to do as much stuff as mechanical engineers can do but with that being said biomedical engineering is one of my dark horse careers there's just so much cool stuff that you can do with it and I could see it really getting big in the future a lot of it does have to do with things that are outside of our control like regulations etc but there's a lot of really cool stuff happening in the biomedical industry so biomedical engineering is going to go into B tier next on the list is chemical engineering early career pay here is 72,000 mid-career pay is 127,000 salary score is 97 demand score is 101 meaning is 56% and there's 10,700 bachelor graduates per year according to glass door chemical engineers make a hundred thousand dollars a year and according to LinkedIn there is 23,000 jobs available so overall chemical engineering is very solid it's more flexible than a degree like petroleum engineering for instance but it's not nearly as flexible as electrical engineering or mechanical engineering so for that reason I'm going to put it into A tier next one on the list is going to be civil engineering and the early career pay here is 60,000 mid-career pays 102,000 number of jobs available is 11,000 demand score is a very healthy 103 meaning score is 65% and the bachelor grads per year is 13,000 according to glass door civil engineers make 78,000 a year and according to LinkedIn there are 73,000 civil engineering jobs available at the entry level so this is one of those that's good but not great civil engineering isn't going to be super flexible like mechanical engineering is the pay is relatively low for an engineering degree as well but overall it's still pretty good I'm going to put this one into B tier next on the list is computer engineering and this is another really good one early career pay is 72,000 a year mid-career pay is 120,000 salary score is a very healthy 93 demand score is off the charts at 107 meaning is 46% so a little bit low there and there are 7,200 bachelor grads per year according to glass door computer engineers make 73,000 a year and according to LinkedIn there is a whopping 109,000 results available when you look at computer engineering now keep in mind sometimes when you see the salaries for different tech industries there's so many different positions in tech so when you look at 73,000 for computer engineer it's not that impressive but there's just so many different positions that you can move into so I can almost guarantee you that after a few years you're going to be making more than that so yeah computer engineering very very good this one is going to go into S tier next one on the list is going to be electrical engineering early career pay here is 70,000 mid-career pays 119,000 a very healthy salary score of 91 the demand score is off the charts at 109 the meaning is 54% so even a little bit better and there are 16,000 bachelor grads per year according to glass door electrical engineers make 87,000 a year and according to LinkedIn it's even better at 149,000 results at the entry level so electrical engineering makes a little bit less than computer engineering but there's also more demand overall and I think it's just more flexible you can go into a lot of the same jobs with electrical engineering that you can go into with computer engineering so this one also goes into S tier next one on the list is going to be environmental engineering early career pay here is 58,000 mid-career pay is 100,000 so salary score is relatively low at 65 the demand score is 100 but you have to realize that this is engineering degrees versus all other degrees and engineering degrees are just much better than almost any other type of degree meaning score is 63 so meaning score is relatively high according to glass door environmental engineers make 98,000 a year and according to LinkedIn environmental engineering has about 23,000 results at the entry level so there is actually a massive amount of opportunity popping up in the energy industry as well as sustainability venture capitalists which in my opinion are the smartest people in the entire world are absolutely pumping money into the green energy and sustainability industries so I do think this one is actually on the rise and I'm actually going to put this one into B tier next one on the list is industrial engineering early career pay is 67,000 mid-career pay is 110,000 salary score is 81 the demand score is 101 and meaning is 46 the total amount of bachelor grads per year is 5200 according to glass door industrial engineers make 86,000 a year and if you look them up on LinkedIn you're going to see 28,000 results at the entry level so yeah another really solid one industrial engineering is one of my personal favorites I think it's a great combination of business skills and engineering skills you're basically learning logistics and operations management and then combining that with you know practical problem solving engineering skills so overall this one is going to go into a tier I also interviewed another person on this channel Joshua who is going through industrial engineering he realized it's probably going to take him five to six years and the only reason he was doing it was to make money and so he decided to go into tech sales instead you can check out that interview right here next on the list is marine engineering so early career pay here is 72,000 a year mid-career pays 123,000 salary score is a healthy 95 the demand score is very low for an engineering degree at 37 but the meaning is 63 and the total amount of bachelor grads per year is 439 so that's not very good according to Glassdoor they make around 107,000 a year and on LinkedIn you're going to see 2,600 results at the entry level so yeah this is another one of those where you can probably get a lot of the same jobs with a more general degree like mechanical engineering so I'm going to have to put this one into D tier next one on the list is going to be materials engineering early career pay here is going to be 69,000 a year mid-career pays 106,000 salary score is a pretty good 82 demand score is 53 and overall there's 1,500 bachelor grads per year so that's okay according to Glassdoor material engineers make 84,000 a year and according to LinkedIn there's 26,000 results at the entry level so overall this is another one of those where you can probably get a lot of the same jobs with something like a chemical engineering degree but it's still pretty good and it's a little bit more specialized and there honestly is a lot of opportunity in materials engineering I mean there's this place called Silicon Valley for a reason so yeah this one overall I'm going to put it into C tier next one on the list is mechanical engineering this is one that's very general a jack of all trades can be a really good one if you're not sure what to go into early career pay is 66,000 mid-career pays 110,000 salary score is 81 demand scores 105 meaning score is 51 and bachelor grads per year is 32,000 according to Glassdoor mechanical engineers make 80,000 dollars a year and according to LinkedIn mechanical engineering has 109,000 results so definitely one of the best ones overall mechanical engineering very solid across the board this one goes into a tier mechatronics engineering is next on the list this is one that everybody wanted me to talk about the problem with this one is I couldn't even find it on the national center of education statistics because it's so new so I'm not even able to get all that data that I usually talk about but yeah mechatronics engineering is super cool if you look up the salary score on Glassdoor friends since you're going to see 90,000 dollars a year and if you look up mechatronics engineering on LinkedIn at the entry level you're going to see 1100 results so this is one that I do see growing a lot in the near future it's just super useful the way that they're doing stuff and the way that automation and AI is going I see this being incredibly useful but with that being said right now the statistics is the data is just not available so I know everybody wants me to do like a very detailed video on this and I really can't because the data is just not there but with that being said I'm going to put this one into a tier but with an asterisk that the data is not there and it's really just my opinion so truly take this with a grain of salt network engineering is next on the list and with this one early career pays 56,000 mid-career pays 90,000 salary score is a paltry 57 for engineering degrees anyways demand score is 100 if you look it up on Glassdoor you're going to see network engineers make 90,000 dollars a year and if you look it up on LinkedIn you're going to see 36,000 results so yeah this is one where salary score is kind of low but there's a lot of demand overall you know it's pretty good I'm going to go ahead and put it into C tier next one on the list is nuclear engineering early career pay is 72,000 mid-career pays 122,000 salary score is 95 demand score is 40 meaning is 63 percent which is relatively high if you look up nuclear engineer salary on Glassdoor you're going to see 92,000 dollars a year and if you look up nuclear engineering at the entry level on LinkedIn you're going to see 4,300 results so I really have mixed opinions on this first of all the subject of nuclear engineering is one of my favorite subjects I think that 100 years from now and maybe someone will find this and clip it and then they'll watch it 100 years from now after I'm dead but I think that 100 years from now without a doubt there's literally zero doubt in my mind that nuclear engineering is going to be the number one energy source I would absolutely bet the house on this but with that being said right now nuclear engineering I have to be honest with you I can't be biased about this the numbers are not amazing first of all anything in the energy industry is always going to fluctuate a lot you're probably going to end up getting laid off like five times throughout your life and then there's just a lot of things that are outside of our control like government regulations public stigma and all kinds of things like that so overall I have to put nuclear engineering into C tier but I am very bullish on it in the long run next one on the list is petroleum engineering so with this one early career pays 94,000 mid-career pays 176,000 the salary score is a very good 100 the demand score is 34 which isn't so great but the meaning is 72% so people who go into petroleum engineering really enjoy it and there's about 2,100 bachelor grads per year according to glass door petroleum engineers make 92,000 a year and according to LinkedIn there is 1,600 results at the entry level so this is another one that has gotten crushed recently there was a lot of layoffs of course and again energy industry this is what you have to expect but with that being said petroleum engineers can make really really good money it's extremely lucrative the demand it can be up sometimes down other times and another downside with petroleum engineering is a lot of the time you can get into the same exact jobs with a chemical engineering degree but you also have a lot of other options so overall I'm going to put this one into C tier all right so definitely check out that interview with Antoine from Black Heights I'll put that right here as well as a playlist of other interviews gently tap the like button hit the subscribe button ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts comments criticisms etc that you have on the video and I will see you next time