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7 reasons why to study the Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering

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Are you finishing your Degree and you are thinking about what to do next year or how to rebrand yourself? Take a minute and discover why is interesting to broaden your training with the Master’s Degree. Your career advancement may depend on it!

31 march 2017

We all know that professionals in the information and communication technology industry are the most demanded in a world increasingly computerised and dependent on technological innovation. News and employability studies talk constantly about how enterprises search for more technical profiles who know how to adapt to sudden changes which are happening currently and will be also happen in the future. If you have studied a technical or scientific degree (Physics, Mathematics), you have a wide range of great possibilities at your disposal to find your place and develop your career. Thanks to your training you have a great advantage, have you considered how a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering can benefit you? Here are 7 reasons to consider it.

 

1.- You are not a newcomer

When you start university you feel completely disoriented. You entered in a technical career and you did not know what were you going to face, moreover at the beginning you were not sure about what to study. That is normal, we start university when we are not completely mature and we lack experience to take some decision. Of course, this inexperience plays trick during the first years and we have to deal with failure and doubts. However, as the years went by, you realised the path you took it not that bad and if you could start all over again, you would not make the same mistakes.To study a Master’s Degree means to start a new title from the perspective of a university graduate, which gives you more security and you are more prepared to complete the studies. You are not a newcomer, you know what you are facing and you want to.

 

2.- You need to be a flexible professional

The engineering world moves so fast and is so diversified that there is no other choice than to have a flexible training. Sure you are related to terms such as  Big DataInternet of ThingsSmart Cities, new generation communications, wearables, self-directed cars, etc. You may have studied a specialised degree, but it is impossible to be an expert in all these technologies. Of course you can studied a degree by specialising in any field of engineering which you find interest throughout your life, but for that it is always advisable to have a good wide and strong base training. The Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering has the general character which will allow you to adapt quickly to sudden changes.

3.- You like what you do, but you have may chosen your speciality wrongly

To decide what we want to study does not mean to mortgage your life to the same work and do not change of decision. To redefine constantly our career and to be open to new possibilities is a permanent necessity. In addition, at the beginning of your career you are allowed to go wrong. You may chose a technical degree focused on one speciality that is not quite interesting for you. The Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering allows you to keep learning about networks, electronics, signal processors, etc. If you want to redirect your career toward other specialities, it is a good start.

If you want to redirect your career toward other specialities, deciding on studying the Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering is an excellent start.

4.- Enterprises will identify you better

With the arrival of the Bologna and the university degrees proliferation with similar names, many employers do not know exactly what you have studied. They studied a higher engineering or a technical engineering, and we only had a few years with graduates of new degree plans. The Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering comes directly from former higher engineering and its name is the same in all the universities of Spain which offer it. Therefore,  employers will identify better your capacities and will associate you directly with the university titles they knew when that went to university. Moreover, telecommunications engineering is a regulated profession and it counts with a professional association which will help you and will bring you closer the enterprise environment. Only through this Master’s degree you will get the professional attributions of this engineering.

 

5.- Distance yourself from your partners

During our time at the university, we resign ourselves to simply pass. Ideally, we should always try to be the bests. In the globalised world out there, you are not only going to compete with your partners, but also with the rest of engineers of the world, and when you do so, you must understand why are you doing it.Many will settle for the basic training received in their degree, but only a small proportion decides to train in a masters degree.Take advantage that you are still at the university to make an extra effort that many others will not.

 

6.- You will find surely a job

All the researches carried out regarding the Telecommunications engineers shows that there is almost no unemployment in this sector because the employability is practically 100%.In addition, the increase of the Spanish and European economy depends on science and technology advanced training. The forecast of the UE shows the creation of almost 900.000 technology employment from now to 2020. In order to have access to the highest number of posts and of better quality, accrediting a Master's degree will be very useful to you.

 

7.- You will make money long-term

The difference between university graduates and those having a postgraduate studies increase as the career progress. The current tendency is that those who have a master’s degree can have access to positions of greater responsibility than those who do not have it and therefore the salary also increases.  The study carried out by Icsa Group in collaboration with La Salle Campus Barcelona-URL confirms that there is a 40.5% difference in the average salary between young people with a postgraduate degree (25,857 euros per year) and those who have a more Basic (18,399 euros). This difference is increasing throughout the professional career. By the way, did you know that being an Enabling Master is cheaper than other master’s degree?