Prepare for a Hands-On Career That's Full of Opportunity
The more technology changes and grows, the more demand there is for trained professionals to create and maintain it. This is especially true of electronics and computer technology, which is why technology degree holders are in such high demand. Whether working as consultants or on staff for prestigious firms, these highly skilled specialists take challenging technical problems and design and implement hardware-based solutions.
Major computer career opportunities are available in a variety of industries, including:
- Communications
- Consumer products
- Manufacturing
- Medical
- Research
- Security
Put Your Technology Degree to Work with a Specialized, Make-It-Happen Computer Career
When you earn your electronics and computer technology degree from DeVry, you'll be equipped for a specialized career in a wide variety of industries. Here are some of the specific computer careers you could pursue:
- Computer Support Specialist: Do your family and friends come to you for help with their computer issues? Why not earn a living as a professional troubleshooter? These specialists provide support, advice and technical assistance to computer users through a help desk, a support services firm or the IT department of a large company; they also may help get users up to speed on new technologies and write training manuals.
- Electrical and Electronics Installer and Repair Specialist: Both businesses and individuals depend on complex electronics equipment to accomplish various tasks throughout the day. As a technology installer and repair specialist, you'll work with intricate componentry to keep electrical and electronics equipment working smoothly.
- Computer and Office Machine Repair Specialist: With a well-rounded knowledge of electronics and an in-depth understanding of equipment repair, you'll be prepared for a career where you can really get your hands dirty. Using high-tech tools and diagnostic software, these highly skilled, mobile professionals diagnose and correct problems in a wide variety of electronics equipment, from photocopiers to the most sophisticated computers.
Start Your Computer Career Before the Competition with a Technology Degree from DeVry
With a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from DeVry you'll not only be prepared for career-entry positions in a wide variety of technical occupational fields, you'll build a solid foundation for advancement to supervisory and management positions. Some technology degree holders may use technical specialty coursework they completed as part of their prior college experience to meet the technical specialty requirement in DeVry's program, allowing them to remain in their career fields. Others may select a DeVry technical specialty, enabling them to enter computer careers such as those listed below.
Electronics and computer technology degree holders will be prepared for computer careers in areas such as:
- Electronic system equipment installation/maintenance
- Manufacturing equipment installation/maintenance
- Wide area network and local area network installation/maintenance
- Wireless communication systems installation/maintenance
- Telecommunications systems installation/maintenance
- Technical field service
- Technical sales/sales support
- Research and development support
- Quality control
DeVry is the university where you can gain the skills, credentials and respect you need to make it big in your current field or in the world of electronics and computer technology. DeVry's success at preparing its students for careers is hard to beat! Check this out.for the past year in all DeVry programs and locations combined, 91% of DeVry graduates in the active job market held positions in their chosen field within 6 months of graduation and earned average entry-level salary of $41,000.
Earn your degree at DeVry today and start your computer career tomorrow!
Learn more about how your electronics and computer technology degree can be applied in a variety of career fields. Click to download Careers in Electronics fact sheet (PDF) and Careers in Networking fact sheet (PDF).
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