Career Outcomes for Duke ECE Master's Graduates

96% of recent master's graduates found full-time employment or pursued further education 6 months of graduation

Duke's Electrical & Computer Engineering master's program prepares graduates for a variety of careers—including with some of the world's most important tech companies. Our graduates also go on to leading PhD programs.

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Graduate careers Data

Where Our Grads Are

Recent Industry Examples:

Airbnb
Amazon
Apple
Cisco
Facebook
Google
IBM
Intel
LinkedIn
Microsoft
NVIDIA

Recent Doctoral Program Examples:

Duke University
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

First Outcome After 6 Months

2020 Graduates

Past Three Years

	2018	2019	2020
Employed or pursuing further education	94%	90%	96%
Number of graduates included in the statistic	51	102	112

Total Annual Salary

	2018	2019	2020
Average	$106,860	$102,576	$113, 913
25th percentile	$90,000	$90,000	$111,250
75th percentile	$120,000	$120,000	$121,000

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Meet Our Graduates

Wanxin Yuan

Software Engineer at Google
Master of Science (MS), 2018

Olympios Petrakis

Software Engineer at NetApp
Master of Science (MS), 2018

Jonathan Buie

Software Engineer at Intel
Master of Science (MS), 2017

Wankun Zhu

Software Engineer at Google
Master of Science (MS), 2016

John McCrone

Software Engineer at IBM
Master of Science (MS), 2015

Karl Tao

ASIC/IP Design Engineer at Apple Inc.
Master of Science (MS), 2015