There are a lot of options after graduating in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.

If you are from a IIT, NIT or GFTI or a Top State Technical Institute like BIT Sindri, Anna University, Jadavpur University or GEC Salem, you must be having standard placements in your Institute in Core Industries.

Of course many students appear for GATE Examination for Admission in higher Technical Institutes in India like Top IITs and IISC Bangalore for their Masters and Doctoral degree. Most of the IITs as well as IISc Bangalore have standard placements for Materials Postgraduate students, with top companies like Applied Materials, Micron, Boeing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Tata Steel, JSW, Jindal Stainless, AM/NS India opening positions.

You can perhaps give the GRE Examination for admission in a Masters/MS in Material Science and Engineering in some of the Top Universities of the World. Materials Engineering has a great scope and career prospects in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Nowadays, most of the students going for education abroad especially in the United States directly go for a Doctoral Degree as the Materials Industry demands expertise in technology. Intel, Apple and a dozen more semiconductor and technology companies like HP and Micron, besides companies like Caterpillar, Tesla, United Steel Corporation, Ford, Rio Tinto, BMW and Nucor Steel are regular recruiters of Material Engineers in the United States. Materials Engineers are excellent Quality Engineera, and hence their rising demand in the Automotive and Mechanical Industry. Many even join National Research Labs as scientists or Top Institutions as Academics and Researchers after a Doctoral degree. Many even return to India and continue their research career in Institutions like the IITs or Laboratories like National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur and DMRL Hyderabad.

Other options include getting a placement after Metallurgical Engineering, perhaps most of the IITs and NITs have standard placements for Metallurgical Branch in both Core and Non Core Sectors with Finance, Software, Consulting and Analytics sectors having some of the highest preferred Non Core placement opportunities besides regular Core Opportunities.

Public Sector Units provide a promising career for Metallurgical Engineers. Under PSUs you have SAIL, Nalco, IOCL, BIS, RINL, Midhani as well as public research organizations like BARC, DRDO, ISRO and National Metallurgical Laboratory which open each year for Metallurgical Graduates either through GATE or through their own entrance Examination followed by Interview.

Metallurgical Engineers are excellent Operation Managers, hence you can even consider going for a MBA post your Bachelors Degree in Engineering and later choose the Manufacturing and Operations Industry with excellent career prospects.

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