While several students often struggle to decide whether is it better to go for a job after completing their B.Tech degree or go for higher studies to pursue M.Tech, the decision majorly depends on various factors and career goals of the student. The candidates who generally opt to pursue M. Tech after completing engineering, are exposed to a lot of career scope and job opportunities in some of the reputed industries in the country. Pursuing an MTech after BTech can assure students with some of the popular job options at the executive level, which comes with good salary packages and includes posts like Project Manager, Senior Engineer, Research Associate, Development Engineer, Construction Manager, Machinery Engineer, Maintenance Manager, Researcher, and more.

Some of the important benefits of pursuing an MTech right after an BTech are highlighted below:

1. Apply for a job of Professor in IITs and NITs: The students can go for a career in the teaching profession after completing their M. Tech. But for that, the candidates need to pursue a doctoral degree (PhD) after completing their M.Tech in the area of their interest. Going for a PhD after completing M.Tech can help the candidates to get profound job opportunities in some of the central universities such as NITs and IITs. The candidates can also go for entrepreneurship and open their own educational institution after completing a degree in M.Tech.
2. Enhanced and Subject Oriented Knowledge: When the candidates opt to pursue further education in MTech, they are given education related to a particular stream of Technology. This not only enables the students to get complete and enhanced knowledge about a particular stream of Engineering but it also makes them specialised with proficient knowledge in that particular stream. While going ahead in their career, this phenomenon acts as an upper hand for students as it makes them stand apart from other competitors in the market who just have the basic knowledge about the subject.
3. Placed in Companies with high Packages: Some of the well-reputed industries often search for a candidate with a Master’s degree to employ them for important IT industry jobs. Multinational companies like Microsoft and Google are often seeing preferring the candidates with an M. Tech degree for the job owing to their extended and prolific knowledge base. Pursuing M. Tech after completing a degree in B. Tech ensure students with the opportunity to get hired by reputed firms with high salaried packages as compared to the students getting a job right after completing their graduation in engineering. Although the average salary of a candidate after pursuing a degree in M. Tech depends upon various factors starting from the type of organisation, the expertise, and the experience of the candidate, on average, the candidates with a degree in Masters of Technology can generally earn up to 40k-50k per month as a starting salary.
4. Pursue Career in Research: The candidates can also go for a PhD or into the field of research after completing a degree in M.Tech as it deals with specialization in a particular branch of technology. Since M.Tech ensures acquaintance precise to a particular domain of technology by guaranteeing detailed knowledge as well as complete information in that arena, M.Tech individuals are highly valued and respected in the research industry. They are encouraged to publish research journals and attend conferences as well as seminars through which they can contribute to the education and research domain through their knowledge. They can publish their books based upon their research which can benefit the future generation in terms of enhancing knowledge.