What do you need to take for an engineer?

After leaving school, each graduate faces the most important question of choosing a future profession. Based on personal preferences, as well as the abilities of schoolchildren, they are most often divided into two main groups: the humanities and the techies. The most popular profession among applicants of the second type is a wide variety of engineering specialties. Today in our article we will talk about the features of this career, as well as what subjects must be taken for admission.

The profession of an engineer is very difficult but interesting. In order to become a highly qualified specialist in demand on the labor market among employers, you need to know a large amount of specialized information, as well as have a large number of professional skills and abilities.

Today, all engineering professionals can be divided into several categories. For example, designers, physicists, technologists, mechanics, designers, testers, military engineers and many others are distinguished. Thus, we can conclude that a specialist who has acquired an engineering education will be able to apply his professional knowledge, skills and abilities in almost all spheres of life. However, it should be borne in mind that in addition to professional characteristics, requirements are also put forward for the personal qualities of a specialist. So, an engineer must be accurate and attentive, communicative and responsible, possess logical thinking and an analytical mindset, etc.

Like any other profession, the engineering profession has its own individual characteristics (both positive and negative). Among the advantages are:

• high wages (in this case, the material remuneration for the work of a specialist may vary depending on the region of residence, a specific place of work, qualifications and work experience);
• high demand (a person who has a diploma in engineering will not be left without a job, since these specialists are in demand throughout our country);
• possibility of career growth (a responsible and proactive employee can later become a head of a department or even a director of an enterprise), etc.

The disadvantages include:

• irregular working hours (despite a well-defined work schedule, very often situations occur when engineers are late at work);
• traditionality (engineers cannot work from home or on a free schedule);
• long and difficult education process (It is quite difficult to enroll in an engineering specialty - for this you need to pass technical subjects, in addition, the learning process itself cannot be called easy, high requirements are imposed on students).

If you have definitively chosen the profession of an engineer as your future career, then you should pull up the subjects that you will later have to take on the exam. So, for admission to a technical specialty, you need to pass such school subjects as mathematics, physics and Russian... However, in some cases, the list does not end with these disciplines - you may also need chemistry or a foreign language (usually English).

You can apply to an engineer not only after graduating from high school (after grade 9 to college or after grade 11 to university), but also after graduating from secondary school. At the same time, you can choose the full-time form of study and fully devote yourself to acquiring knowledge, or choose the correspondence option and combine study at a university with work. So, if you decide to apply for an engineer after receiving a diploma of secondary vocational education, then you do not need to take the Unified State Exam. The first thing to do is visit the admissions office of the educational institution and clarify what subjects are required to pass the entrance exams.

It should be borne in mind that you will have to take entrance exams not in general subjects (as after graduation), but in highly specialized disciplines. The specific disciplines required to pass the internal exam will depend on the chosen field of study and study program.