Here's Why A Software Engineering Degree Is Great

 Introduction

Is a software engineering major or software engineering degree worth it that's what we're going to be

discuss today.we talk about personal finance college degrees careers and opportunities that are going to lead you to success and we also go over how you can avoid some of the common financial trap.

Now with that being said we are gonna jump right into it and the first question is what the heck is software engineering.software engineering gonna focus on programming languages, computer networking, software design as well as coding however you're probably going to get a well-rounded education when it comes technology. In general now there's pretty much no difference between computer science and software engineering in certain countries. However from my research the main difference is computer science focuses on the more theoretical and mathematical aspect of computers of course you're also going to learn how to code as well because that's one of the most useful parts of computer science however software engineering is going to focus more on the software development itself and that's going to include the design the testing the maintenance and the rollout etc. Everything that has to do with software development. Now there are a ton of different career paths you can go down with this one.A lot of them are going to overlap with computer science information security analyst computer programmer network architect etc. There's tons of different career paths now this is a relatively rare degree in most of the countries.Only around 1300 people graduate per year.

 

Degree evaluation

Now we're going to evaluate this degree and whether it's worth it. in four different really important categories and the first section we're going to talk about is going to be earning potential or salary. So with this degree you can expect to make around 71000$ a year starting out and 114000$ in mid-career pay. You can compare that to a really high-paying degree like petroleum engineering or really low-paying one like recreational therapy and when you do that you're going to see it's definitely on the higher paying side of things. Now one career path you might go down like i mentioned before is computer network architect and they make around a hundred and twelve thousand dollars a year. You could also become a software developer and they make around 107000$ or you could become an information security analyst which makes around 99000$ and there's honestly a ton of different technology related careers that you can go into with this one and pretty much all of them are going to get you to that six figure level.So a lot of the careers are going to be very high paying now. When you look at how much you make with a degree like this throughout an entire lifetime you're gonna see that

it's well above the average of 2.4 million dollars. People who graduate with an engineering degree in general make around 3.5 million dollars throughout an entire lifetime and then the ones that go into a career that has to do with computer or mathematics make around 3.7 million. So even more and the technology industry in general tends to just pay their employees pretty well. 

 

 

 

Next on the list we're going to be talking about satisfaction and this is basically going to be comprised of job satisfaction and meaning. Now meaning is basically just how much you think your job positively impacts. The world whereas job satisfaction is how much do you enjoy doing your job on a day-to-day basis. So when it comes to meaning we see that pay scale shows software engineering degree graduates have a 42 percent of them think that their job significantly positively impacts the world.So if you look at a really good one like radiation therapy most of the health relate degrees have very high meaning scores or plastics engineering technology. At 31 you see that it is definitely on the lower side so that's pretty interesting to think about. 

Now one other thing that i like to mention is a lot of the time people will get engineering degrees and then they end up becoming entrepreneurs they end up starting their own businesses and if you're able to start a successful business which is really tough but if you're able to do it you can make a lot more than just about any employee out there and that's probably why engineering comes in as number one on the careers that create the most millionaires. Now on top of that computer science which software engineering is kind of in between those two comes in at number eight and it's the one that's rising the fastest so.

This is definitely one of the best degrees out there now of course. Like i said this is extremely subjective for one person. This might be the perfect degree 10 out of 10 11 out of 10 for another person it might be negative 10 out of 10. So always make sure to do your research do your due diligence never go for a degree just because it makes a lot of money. There's a lot of other factors in there that you need to consider. I do focus on the money side of things on this because this is a personal finance.But it's important for you to make sure that you're also happy with your career.