<p>Is it easy for materials scientists and engineers to find jobs after graduation?</p>
<p>In undergrad all of my friends that didn’t want to go to grad school were able to get jobs within our field without a problem. This was also ~3 years ago, but I imagine in about four years from now things will be similar.</p>
<p>Materials has excellent job outlook.</p>
<p>How does it compare to just pure chemistry in terms of market and money?</p>
<p>While numbers-wise there’s more jobs available to chem majors you also have a ton more people competing for them. With materials you’ll be looking at a bit more specialized jobs (and higher pay).</p>
<p>is it better than CS and CmpE in terms of outlook?</p>
<p>I can tell you that from Michigan, CS and CompE majors make more. However, I do not know anything about any other factor of those jobs.</p>
<p>after looking around, it seems that MatE is a high paying but slow growing career…what do materials scientists do?</p>
<p>Create new materials… And I guess help companies decide what material is best for some particular job. I guess that’s the difference between industry and research.</p>
<p>I’m a graduating MSE major.</p>
<p>Material engineers don’t just create new materials, and very few with just a bachelors will end up in that kind of research. Many end up in consulting (government or otherwise) or design (material selection.) Many also end up in management type roles at material plants, such as rubbermaid or steel plants, where their basic material abilities will be enough to get them through. There are a LOT of directions you can take an MSE degree, although that’s true for a lot of engineering majors.</p>