One of the most difficult decisions to make is to choose a career path. As it is very difficult to anticipate whether the industry you have chosen will continue growing at the same pace, become oversaturated, or will soon become completely redundant.

What looks very clear from the stats today is that the trend is towards automation and information technology and it is not going to change at least till the foreseeable near future. Though traditional fields such as civil, petroleum, and electrical industries are still very lucrative, the IT-sphere has topped the charts to become the fastest-growing field today.

The list of the most in-demand engineering fields is as follows:

1. Data Science & Machine Learning:

Software engineering has been one of the most healthy and lucrative fields for a while now. The trend seems unlikely to change in the future anytime soon. Apart from regular software engineering and data science, was has got this field the first position is Big Data. It is the data science that requires engineering to secure and work on particularly large data sets.   

2. Automation & Robotics Engineering:

The constant wave for automation in many industries has created a demand for more and more robotics and automation engineers. Robotics engineers help design, test, and develop robots for a variety of tasks and applications. This industry, like all those science-fiction films, never fails to surprise with another invention almost every coming day. 

3. Petroleum Engineering:

The world will never be sustainable and independent enough to survive without mineral fuels. The responsibilities of a petroleum engineer include the design of drilling methods, use of equipment, execution and the implementation of plans, and monitoring of drilling programs. Especially over the last few decades, this has become an in-demand engineering job.

4. Civil Engineering:

As far as this planet is to live and flourish, civil engineering will have a major role to play. Civil engineering has historically been one of the most in-demand engineering posts around the world. Since Civil engineers build the very infrastructure around us, this is unlikely to change anytime soon in the future.

5. Electrical Engineering:

Another traditional engineering field that has observed healthy growth over time is Electrical engineering. Like civil engineering, Electrical engineering is also a broad umbrella that includes disciplines like power engineering, electronic engineering, instrumentation engineering, etc.  

6. Industrial Engineering:

Industrial Engineering is another promising career path that attracts thousands of students from all over the world. It offers not only the knowledge about manufacturing, systems, designs, processes but also hands-on techniques and practical processes that can help students apply themselves in the market.