Dear Aspirant,

Electronics and Communication Engineering is probably the best engineering branch which has the widest score as both job wise ( government and private sector ) as well as research and higher studies wise after CSE.

If you look at the course structure of Electronics and Communication Engineering, it is broadly divided into 4 parts.
1. Programming, which gives a flavor of computer science ( Courses: Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms )
2. Electricals, which gives the flavour of electrical Systems ( Courses: Network Theory, Analog, Digital Electronics)
3. Communications and Signal processing ( Courses: Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, analog and digital communication)
4. Physics ( Courses: Electronics Devices, Microwave and Antenna, Electromagnetics)

Now, even if you are able to pick up any one of the parts from above, you can land up a decent job, just after your B.Tech.

Programming: If you are able to catch up into this and maintain a decent skill set, you can easily end up into an IT job.
If you enhance your skills as per some segment of the market, for example mobile application development, website development, Java developer, embedded systems, Machine Learning engineer etc.

Electricals: If you enhance your skills in this segment, you can end up as hardware engineer, VLSI engineer, power engineer, embedded systems engineer, robotics engineer etc.
Again you will have to focus on the area of your interest and develop your skills accordingly. For example, learning VLSI will involve learning verilog/VHDL, whereas for hardware engineer you will have to learn CAD designing, PCB designing etc. It all depends on your interest.

Communications and Signal processing: This is fairly research oriented side of ECE. Although with your B.Tech degree, you can land up a job in any of the telecom company as a network engineer or similar positions, for signal processing, you will have to work into R&D. You will have to have sound knowledge of all wireless communications like 3G, 4G, LoRa, NRF, satellite communication etc.

Physics: This area is also extremely research oriented, you will have to get into masters programs for further good opportunities. You will be dealing with how to make smaller and and smaller PCBs, antenna lines in your phone etc.

After graduation, ECE engineers divide into various industries:
1. IT
2. Embedded systems
3. Hardware Engineering
4. Signal Processing
5. Internet of things
6. Artificial intelligence and Machine learning
7. PCB/CAD designing
8. Electronics sales.
Etc.
It totally depends on your interest.

You can also give GATE/ GRE  and other exams and go for higher studies in the domain of your interest.

If you are interested in government jobs, again you can appear for GATE/ ESE/ RRB / NTRO etc. You can get a job in PSUs like BEL, ECIL etc.

And if you want to go into non technical field, you can always go for Bank exams, UPSC Civil Services Exam, and other exams.

If you maintain a decent CGPA (>7.5), you can appear for Army SSB at the end of your 3rd year itself, also after completing your graduation, you can appear for SSB directly into Army and Navy. You can also appear for CDSE and AFCAT.

If you are interested to become a scientist you can appear for GATE/ ISRO/ BARC exam and attend interview for various roles in DRDO etc.

Hope thia helps.

Hey Acchu Freeki,

Electronics and communication engineering graduates will have good scope even beyond 2020. There is a growing convergence between hardware and software - that electronics engineers have an edge in when compared to computer grads. An Electronics Engineer earns an average salary of Rs 3,05,680 per year. Multiple career paths are available within the realm of electronic communications engineering in the following areas:

• Analog and Radio Frequency Electronic Circuits
• Communication and Signal processing
• Computer and Digital Systems
• Networking
• Computer vision and Image Processing
• Control Systems, Robotics and Intelligent Transportation
• Electromagnetics, Remote sensing and Microwaves
• Optics and Photonics
• Nanotechnology and Electronic Materials
• Sustainable Energy and Power systems

You can research about each area individually. It all depends on your interests.

Good Luck.