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Technical education can provide a wide range of opportunities in today’s world. It can be said that today’s technology depends on a country’s most important resource – skilled workers. A technically sound population can contribute to a country’s overall economy by being a part of manufacturing, designing, developing, and maintaining goods and services.
But, it’s important to understand what technical education means. We look at it here. We also look at some of the best universities across the world that offer great technical education.
What is mean by Technical Education? When we talk about technical education, the first thing that comes to mind is digital/information technology. However, information technology isn’t the only field that is related to or is a part of technical education.
Technical education covers engineering, architecture, management, planning, applied sciences, and other related fields. It helps to prepare students for a career where they can apply scientific and technical principles to create solutions. Technical education focuses on providing training and imparting knowledge for specific purposes that help to build or improve one’s career. The field helps in understanding the fundamentals of how things work and how they can be designed/manufactured from the ground up.
In order to become a technically skilled worker, one would need to learn subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering, and other applied sciences. Today, the demand for people with technical skills has increased exponentially, due to the growth of technology and innovations. And demand is only set to grow vertically. Development, in terms of both industrial as well as technical, is bound to be an offshoot of great technical education.
Technical education has a wide array of fields to choose from based on one’s interest. Due to its highly specialized nature of training, technical education focuses on providing a more hands-on approach than general education. Some of the opportunities that await those who are interested in technical education and look forward to a career related to it are listed below.
There are many institutions that offer technical education to those students who are looking to build a career out of it. Let’s take a look at some of the best universities that offer technical education.
Rank | University | Location |
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | U.S.A |
2 | Stanford University | U.S.A |
3 | University of Cambridge | U.K |
4 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
5 | University of California, Berkeley | U.S.A |
6 | University of Oxford | U.K |
7 | Imperial College London | U.K |
8 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore, Singapore |
9 | Tsinghua University | Beijing, China (Mainland) |
10 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore, Singapore |
MIT boasts of one of the best-developed schools and departments that takes part in groundbreaking research and development. The School of Engineering, The School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzmann School of Computing, and The School of Science offer some of the best undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for those interested in technical careers post-high school.
Stanford University has constantly been in the spotlight for their innovative research and for the quality of education they impart. Although vocational in terms of the education Stanford imparts, The School of Engineering, and The School of Humanities and Sciences offer courses that focus on fields closely related to technical education.
The School of Technology at the University of Cambridge offers courses in computer science and engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The School of the Physical Sciences offers courses in mathematics, material science and metallurgy, physics, and applied mathematics and theoretical physics among others.
ETH Zurich has an array of programmes across disciplines such as engineering, natural sciences, mathematics, and civil engineering. These programmes are designed to help students to build highly creative and successful careers.
The University of California, Berkeley offers technical programs including construction and sustainability, sciences, mathematics and biotechnology, technology and information management, and writing, editing and technical communication. These courses are tailor-made to fit those who are looking forward to kickstarting a technical career.
What is Technical Education? There’s a popular belief that technical educaiton is only for those who have an analytical bent of mind. Not so true. Technical education can be taken up by those who are creative too (being technically inclined and being artistic and creative do not have to be mutually exclusive). Technical education is really an umbrella term and can mean many things – can lead to varied career avenues, which are for people with varied skills and abiltites. And that’s what we’ve tried to give a snapshot of here.
Technology is only going to become deeper entrenched in our lives, so it’s important to think about roles that you may be good at that involve technology. See also Top Technology Trends and Universities In 2022!
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