Top jobs with an electrical and electronic engineering degree
Find out how studying for a degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Surrey opens up a wide range of job and career opportunities.
Surrey is one of the UK’s leading universities for electrical and electronic engineering, with our courses ranking in the top 20 in both the Complete University Guide 2026 and Guardian University Guide 2026.
This means our electrical and electronic engineering graduates are highly sought after, with 95 per cent in work or further education, earning an average salary of £35,619 (Graduate Outcomes 2025, HESA).
Many of our students boost their employability by taking advantage of our exceptional Professional Training placement programme, which enables you to spend a year gaining valuable work experience with a relevant company, and often leads to a job offer on graduation. This is one reason why we were awarded Best University Careers/Employability Service at the National University Employability Awards 2022.
Surrey’s always been a university that teaches with the end vocation in mind. The key study areas we offer are the ones most highly regarded by industry. I keep in touch with many of my past students on LinkedIn. I’m delighted to see them go out into industry and thrive.Dr Tim Brown, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
A degree in electrical and electronic engineering can help open the door to a range of careers. At Surrey, our graduates have gone on to roles including:
- Acoustic consultant
- Aerospace engineer
- Broadcast engineer
- CAD technician
- Design engineer
- Electrical engineer
- Electronics engineer
- IT consultant
- Multimedia programmer
- Network engineer
- Nuclear engineer
- Sound engineer
- Special effects technician
- Systems analyst
- Technical author.
Future technologies
At Surrey, we offer courses in leading future technologies, so graduates can explore careers in exciting new fields such as:
- 5G/6G communications
- Artificial intelligence and audio/visual signal processing
- Nanotechnology, quantum information, energy and advanced materials
- Robotics and machine learning
- Satellite and space systems.
Our graduate success stories
Some of our recent graduates are now employed at companies such as:
- Citigroup
- Cirrus Logic
- Squared Paper
- Pycom
- NCR
- York Instruments
- Dialog Semiconductor
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
- Arm Holdings
- Jonathan Grili
- Qualcomm
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Jaguar Land Rover
- CGI.
Further academic study
Many of our graduates go on to complete a masters degree or undertake PhD research, investigating an area of personal interest.
Discover more about our electronic and electrical engineering degrees, our award-winning Professional Training placement scheme and student life at Surrey.
