At the level of undergraduate education, communication engineering is a secondary specialty under the electronic information category of the first-level discipline, and automation is a secondary specialty under the automation category of the first-level discipline. From the perspective of employment, they are all majors that can get high salaries. How to develop after graduation depends on personal ability.
Let's talk about communication engineering first. Communication engineering majors mainly study and study the generation of content signals, the transmission, exchange and processing of information, as well as theoretical and engineering applications in computer communication, optical fiber communication, wireless communication, exchange and communication networks. This major mainly trains senior talents engaged in the research, manufacture, development and application of communication engineering and computer network systems. The future employment direction of this major is mainly communication technology research and development positions, communication product sales positions, operation and maintenance or other service positions among telecom operators. There are also many cross-bank positions in other communication-related fields, and there are also many code farmers.
Let's look at the automation major. This is a major called tiger balm. Automation generally refers to the process of processing and production in a factory. It can be controlled by no one or few people by controlling machines and equipment to run according to preset procedures. Now this concept is not only applied to the factory production process, but also to agricultural production, military command, scientific research, transportation, commercial operation, medical service and even family life. Even robots can be regarded as an extension of automation specialty. It has a wide range of applications, broad natural development prospects and broad employment channels. Graduates of this major are mainly engaged in electrical engineering-related systems operation, automatic control, power electronics technology, information processing, experimental analysis, research and development, economic management and electronic and computer technology applications, including research and development, sales and operation and maintenance. You can choose to go to a manufacturing enterprise for automatic control of the production process, you can also choose to develop in the direction of automatic robots, and you can even develop in data acquisition and pattern recognition.
In Tongji University, communication engineering is not a key major, but it has the right to award master's degrees in the first-class discipline of information and communication engineering.
Automation major has the right to award master's degree and doctor's degree in Tongji University's first-class discipline of control science and engineering, and the postdoctoral mobile station of control science and engineering. At the same time, the specialty of Control Theory and Control Engineering (related to automation) in Tongji University is the national key discipline of two disciplines.
You can learn more about Tongji University, professional information, admission scores and so on. Comparatively speaking, Tongji University has a stronger automation major. If it is limited to Tongji University, automation may be better.