Indians still prefer a career in engineering over other fields!

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Indians still prefer a career in engineering over other fields!Is pursuing engineering still an obsession in India? As per a report by Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 80% of the students aged between 16 and 17 in India are interested in an engineering career.
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This percentage is highest in the world as the first ever global report commissioned by Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering stated that only 20% and 30% were interested in engineering career in same age bracket in UK and the USA, respectively.

Not only this, more and more girls are interested in engineering for the report revealed that India had bridged the gender gap in the field engineering at 14% in 2015.

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Globally, 66% men and 43% women are interested in engineering, whereas if we look at India, 85% Indian men and nearly 79% women in India showed interest in the field, which is yet again the highest in the world.

So why are they interested in engineering so much? To this, 80% of 16 year olds in India said it was their first choice, while the number rose to 81% among 18-24 year olds, and 87% among 24-30 year olds.

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"In India, the software services industry alone recruits about 300,000 people every year. Meanwhile, over a third of the country's engineering students are women.

This boom is partly due to businesses wanting to make use of the comparatively cheap production and talent costs. In the future the Internet of Things will undoubtedly create more job opportunities across all branches of engineering,” Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, told TOI.

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