<p>I recently transferred to a four year school, and I have to take pre-reqs for my computer engineering degree. Namely calculus and physics, so I will probably graduate when I am 25 or so with a Bachelor in Computer Engineering. Will it matter that much that I graduated at 25? Are most engineering students older than the other majors or is it the same age usually?</p>
<p>Nobody will care as long as you have a decent story with good grades. </p>
<p>You may get asked about it in an interview, but it won’t matter as long as you don’t say anything crazy.</p>
<p>I don’t believe it matters if you graduated at 25.</p>
<p>And I have no comment on engineering students graduate later than other majors “usually”. Since engg courses are “usually” considered harder than other majors, someone could pull up some “stats” from somewhere that may say so.</p>
<p>Many people take a year or two off after high school and many others take 5 or 6 years to graduate. Graduating around age 25 is extrememly common. Ill be 27 when I graduate and I feel more mature than many of my classmates, but I certaintly don’t feel old.</p>
<p>My husband was 30 when he got his BS, and had no problem. Then he went to grad school!</p>
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<p>Our current head of product development worked as a technician for 10 years, returned to school to get his BS and ultimately earned his PhD.</p>
<p>i’ll be one month shy of 26 when I graduate with a bs in comp engineering. I wish I had gotten it done sooner but better late than never… or better late than later</p>
<p>Oh, you guys are so young, it’s ridiculous! You will laugh when you think of this twenty years from now!</p>
<p>I was 22 when I received my B.S. degree BUT I did not receive my M.S. degree until almost age 33. It took me 9 years before I could even look at a textbook and do assignments again.</p>
<p>If you want to improve your chances of employment after graduation, you can focus your interests in a field experiencing growth and not enough people specializing within it; or, you can focus on an established field about to experience massive engineer retirement; or, create or join a robust social network that will facilitate job acquisition.</p>
<p>I’ve read there’s a field within Electrical Engineering that will allegedly experience massive brain drain in the next 5 years due to retirement of older workers. From what I gather, this particular subfield is not offered at many universities, is generally ignored by many prospective EE students, seems (IMO) more resistant to outsource/offshore, and is of vital importance to the US. I’ll be taking a few classes within this EE subfield so that in case things more or less pan out as told, I’ll be better positioned to pounce on the opportunities. TBD.</p>
<p>Edit: you can always go work for the Gov or defense contractors.</p>