r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Ok-Carpenter-7748 • 27d ago

Student Degree Vs Skill 🤔

I’ve heard literally every other person talk about how skill is more important than a degree. Personally as one pursuing chemical engineering what skills are there that I can develop that will help boost my career? Please help me

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u/KingSamosa Energy Consulting | Ex Big Pharma | MSc + BEng 24d ago edited 24d ago

I won’t lie, a good degree will give you a good launch pad. It’s night and day difference how grads from middle of the road universities get treated vs those from well known universities. But skill will definitely carry you through your career.

Honestly for chemical engineering, there is nothing much you can do besides getting into the top internships/co-ops unless you wanna take up coding or cad.

As someone mentioned below, dealing with blue collar workers is a skill in itself. Definitely comes in handy in interface roles like project engineering or commissioning/decommissioning.