r/ChemicalEngineering • u/fatimalizade • Jul 05 '25

Software Software recommendations

Hi everyone, I’m currently doing my master’s degree in Chemical and Energy Engineering, but my bachelor was in Chemistry, so I didn’t pick up any programming skills in my previous studies, but actually I’ve done some MATLAB courses and learned basics.

Yesterday I had a conversation with one of my group mates and she mentioned that you can’t get a research or software-based job with MATLAB, it’s useless and you have to learn Python instead.

So I’m wondering is it still worth spending time on MATLAB?

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u/No_Objective1045 Jul 05 '25

Learning Python, SQL, can get you a job as a data analyst or data Scientist. They’ll pay well, above six figures.

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u/fatimalizade Jul 06 '25

Thanks for answering.