Un ingeniero electrónico es un especialista necesario para cualquier construcción: desde un pequeño edificio residencial hasta enormes fábricas, subestaciones y estaciones espaciales. El desarrollo de tecnologías modernas genera una enorme demanda de ingenieros electrónicos cualificados, experimentados y con conocimientos relevantes; los especialistas están increíblemente demandados en cualquier país del mundo.

Los ingenieros electrónicos deben tener las siguientes competencias:
- Equipos de mantenimiento y reparación
- Encontrar formas de optimizar y modernizar equipos y cadenas de trabajo
- Aumentar la eficiencia de producción
- Preparación de tareas técnicas y documentación
- Instalación y pruebas de ejemplo
- El arranque y ajuste de equipos electrónicos y mucho más, tareas específicas dependerán de los detalles del trabajo.

De una forma u otra, todo el mundo moderno está ligado al uso de la electricidad, y por tanto la profesión de ingeniero electrónico nunca perderá su relevancia. Estos especialistas pueden trabajar fácilmente en cualquier país del mundo, aumentando su valor y cualificaciones profesionales.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2027 QS: Engineering - Electronic
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 96.9 |
| 2 | Stanford University | 93.6 |
| 3 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 91.4 |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 90.4 |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 90.2 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | 89.9 |
| 7 | University of Oxford | 89.6 |
| 8 | ETH Zurich | 89.5 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | 89.1 |
| 10 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 88.6 |
| 11 | Tsinghua University | 88.2 |
| 12 | Harvard University | 88.1 |
| 13 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 84.4 |
| 14 | Delft University of Technology | 83.8 |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 83.4 |
| =16 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 83.2 |
| =16 | University of Toronto | 83.2 |
| 18 | Princeton University | 82.7 |
| 19 | Technical University of Munich | 82.6 |
| =20 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 81.8 |
| =20 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 81.8 |
| =20 | The University of Tokyo | 81.8 |
| 23 | Peking University | 81.6 |
| 24 | Politecnico di Milano | 81.3 |
| 25 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 80.9 |
| 26 | University of Texas at Austin | 80.8 |
| 27 | Carnegie Mellon University | 80.4 |
| 28 | Seoul National University | 79.5 |
| 29 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 79.3 |
| =30 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 79.2 |
| =30 | University of Waterloo | 79.2 |
| 32 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 79.1 |
| 33 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 79 |
| 34 | The University of Manchester | 78.9 |
| 35 | Zhejiang University | 78.5 |
| 36 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | 78.3 |
| 37 | University of British Columbia | 78.2 |
| 38 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 78.1 |
| 39 | UCL | 77.8 |
| 40 | Purdue University | 77.7 |
| 41 | Cornell University | 77.5 |
| 42 | Technical University of Denmark | 77.3 |
| 43 | The University of Melbourne | 77.2 |
| =44 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 77.1 |
| =44 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 77.1 |
| 46 | Politecnico di Torino | 76.9 |
| =47 | KU Leuven | 76.8 |
| =47 | The University of Sydney | 76.8 |
| 49 | McGill University | 76.5 |
| 50 | Université Paris-Saclay | 76.4 |
| 51 | The University of Hong Kong | 76.3 |
| 52 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 76.1 |
| =53 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 76 |
| =53 | RWTH Aachen University | 76 |
| 55 | Texas A&M University | 75.7 |
| =56 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 75.2 |
| =56 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 75.2 |
| =58 | Columbia University | 74.8 |
| =58 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 74.8 |
| =58 | Yonsei University | 74.8 |
| =61 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 74.7 |
| =61 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 74.7 |
| =61 | The University of Edinburgh | 74.7 |
| 64 | University of Technology Sydney | 74.6 |
| 65 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 74.5 |
| 66 | Yale University | 74 |
| 67 | Australian National University (ANU) | 73.9 |
| =68 | Aalborg University | 73.8 |
| =68 | Korea University | 73.8 |
| =68 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | 73.8 |
| =71 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 73.5 |
| =71 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | 73.5 |
| =73 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 73.3 |
| =73 | KFUPM | 73.3 |
| =73 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 73.3 |
| =73 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 73.3 |
| =77 | Chalmers University of Technology | 73.1 |
| =77 | Fudan University | 73.1 |
| =77 | Monash University | 73.1 |
| =77 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | 73.1 |
| 81 | Universidade de São Paulo | 72.9 |
| 82 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 72.7 |
| =83 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 72.5 |
| =83 | University of Washington | 72.5 |
| =85 | Kyoto University | 72.4 |
| =85 | Xi’an Jiaotong University | 72.4 |
| =87 | University of Southampton | 72.2 |
| =87 | Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India | 72.2 |
| =87 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 72.2 |
| 90 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | 72.1 |
| 91 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | 72 |
| =92 | Khalifa University | 71.9 |
| =92 | The University of Queensland | 71.9 |
| 94 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 71.8 |
| =95 | King's College London | 71.6 |
| =95 | University of Science and Technology of China | 71.6 |
| 97 | University of Nottingham | 71.5 |
| 98 | National Tsing Hua University - NTHU | 71.4 |
| =99 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | 71.2 |
| =99 | University of Pennsylvania | 71.2 |