Materials belong to engineering. Compared with science and liberal arts, the employment situation is much better and the salary is slightly higher. Engineering is the most practical, and most places in China lack such talents.

This major requires higher practical ability than other majors, and there are many kinds of materials, including polymer materials, inorganic materials, composite materials, metal materials and so on.

Metal materials and inorganic nonmetallic materials use more physical knowledge, of course, chemistry, while polymer materials and polymer-based composites are all about chemistry, and much less about physics, so the materials colleges of some schools separate polymer materials.

For example, Zhejiang University has set up a polymer department, which includes polymer physics, chemistry, polymer materials science and engineering, while the College of Materials Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University mainly includes inorganic nonmetals.

Metals and semiconductors, of course, semiconductors are more inorganic nonmetals; However, the specialty of polymer materials in Tsinghua University was assigned to the Institute of Chemical Engineering, which shows that polymer materials are closely related to chemistry.

Employment direction:

After graduating from metallurgical engineering, you can engage in metallurgical technology and its theory, smelting process and control, smelting process and equipment design, production process improvement, smelting product performance improvement and testing, metallurgical enterprise management and so on.

After graduation, the major of welding technology and engineering can be oriented to industries such as machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding, and large and medium-sized enterprises, engaged in automatic welding and semi-automatic welding technology operation and construction, process planning, product quality inspection, on-site production management and technical management.

After graduating from polymer materials and engineering, you can engage in scientific research and teaching, technical development, process and equipment design, technical transformation and management in the fields of preparation, processing and molding of various materials, material structure and properties.

After graduating from material science and engineering, you can engage in scientific research and teaching, technology development, process and equipment design, technical transformation and management in the fields of preparation, processing and molding, material structure and performance of various materials.