Your Career Prospects

In recent years the focus of the electronics and semiconductor industries has increasingly shifted to Asia. While the initial focus was on manufacturing, product design, product definition, marketing, sales and even industrial research are also shifting to Asia. Graduates will usually start their industrial career as design engineers, developing new leading-edge ICs. As their career progresses, some of them will stay in design, growing to be technical experts and/or engineering managers. Others will branch out into neighboring functions, e.g. concept engineering, product definition, marketing and sales, eventually rising into corporate top management. Of course, if students want to engage with related research institutions and pursue further studies, the joint NTU/TUM master degree opens the door for a Ph.D. Both NTU and TUM educate Ph.D. candidates in performing leading-edge, world-class research in a variety of fields related to integrated circuits. Other universities are also more than happy to admit NTU/TUM graduates into their Ph.D. programmes.