I want to ask which should I choose, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering? Please elaborate, such as employment, income, etc.

I'm not from Jiaotong University, but I can give you some advice.

Electrical engineering is to be an electrical engineer in the future. Now from the market point of view, it is still very good for employment, mainly PLC control, electric power, control equipment and so on. The actual content is abstract, between mechanical engineers and software engineers, which is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. Starting point is higher and competitiveness is lower.

The salary in the early and middle period is a little higher than that of mechanical engineers, but not as high as that of mechanical engineers in the later period. Because electrical engineering is only a little thorough, there will not be much improvement in technology. Of course, this is the general situation, and very powerful electrical engineers are also quite arrogant, especially those things that ordinary people can't handle. If you can control it, your value will be very high.

Mechanical engineering, later to be a mechanical engineer, the early salary is low. Moreover, it is not easy to find a completely corresponding job in the early stage, which requires accumulation and continuous learning. I have a wide range of knowledge, I can't do it to a certain depth, and my salary can't go up. So many mechanical students change careers. Because doing machinery is not very abstract, most people can understand it and feel that it is just like that. There are many mechanical engineers with low starting point and low level, but if they have solid basic skills and good mathematics, physics and mechanics, there is a lot of room for later development. Because machinery is alive and is the forerunner.

Both have good employment prospects, and the key is to choose the right direction in the early stage.

Give you a specific salary reference.

Comparison between mature mechanical engineers and electrical engineers (second-tier cities in Guangdong)

Electrical, 8000 ~1200012000 ~15000

Machinery, 8000 ~ 12000

Wages in big companies should be relatively low.