Career Outcomes for Duke ECE Master's Graduates

98% 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
Oracle

Recent Doctoral Program Examples:

Duke University
Emory University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

First Reported Outcome After 6 Months

2021 Graduates

This survey reflects 105 graduates with 60 responses.

Past Three Years

	2019	2020	2021
Employed or pursuing further education	90%	96%	98%
Number of graduates included in the statistic	102	112	60

Total Annual Salary

	2019	2020	2021
Average	$102,576	$113, 913	$115,229
25th percentile	$90,000	$111,250	$101,000
75th percentile	$120,000	$121,000	$137,000

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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