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Employers tend to prefer engineers who have worked in the industry before pursuing an advanced degree, and many companies will selectively reimburse employees to pursue more education.

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"We will take either a software or computer engineer or a computer science degree—either one depending upon if they have that hew of wanting to go in that direction. They have to display that they're interested that way. You can get it from either side. We have some of each, actually. Most of them are at the bachelor's level. We have one with a master's now doing that type of work." Central
"We have quite a few people who have not taken the full suite of classes, but [non-MnSCU college] offers an MBA. We used to have an MBA [program] for our engineers. At least, we approved a lot of additional funding for education a couple of years ago. So, I know they're going on to [non-MnSCU college]. A couple of people are going back and getting MBAs. And there are a couple of project management organizations that offer some scheduling and project management." Metro
"We've got a significant presence in the mining industry, and it is pretty cyclical. And it has picked up, so of course we're looking for more mining hires. I think we have seen the potential where we're looking for maybe people with advanced degrees." Metro
"And then, if they want an advanced degree later, we will reimburse some of the tuition. But, yeah, we've put more emphasis on the PE than the advanced degree." Southwest
"That's a hard thing for us—the next leader. For example, in our engineering department, we don't have that and it's hard for us to actually find that when we hire." Southwest
"I'm a little biased because I happen to have a master's in general engineering, and I think it opened doors for me. I had a bachelor's degree in the civil field, but I did my master's in general engineering. And that has allowed me to look at engineering in a broader perspective. I can understand some of the other areas. And when we're talking about curriculum or what the universities are to provide, I think having—whether it'd even be a civil—being able to take some courses in other areas in their advanced degree. They don't do that in the undergraduate program because they're so limited in the courses they can take. But in the advanced degree, being able to take some broader courses, if you want a perspective in terms of engineering, may be of benefit to us. And I think that it will help us find some of the—if you want to call them 'experiences'—that we need for our companies. Just a thought." Southwest
"For our industry, unless they have experience to go along with that advanced degree, they've just narrowed their field of where they can be hired. They might actually be hurting themselves because they're going to expect more pay, and therefore it's going to cost more. And we would rather wait; we want to make sure that they're the right candidate." Southwest
"Employer 1: We're finding that a number of businesses are no longer reimbursing tuitions for advanced degree programs.
Question: Do you reimburse?
Employer 2: Selectively probably.
Employer 3: Yeah, we reimburse, too. But we have to approve them prior.
Employer 4: Typically, we don't push for advanced degrees with any of our engineers. I mean a lot of them get their PE, and we push for that. And there's often refresher courses that are involved before they take the exam."		 Southwest
"I think we'd rather send existing employees to get an advanced degree rather than them coming in with an advanced degree." Southwest
"Employer 1: There are some who get their MBA as well as their engineering degree.
Employer 2: Do you encourage that?
Employer 1: We do."		 Southwest