<p>I am the oversea Master student who just received the admission from USC and Lehigh U.</p>
<p>At USC, my major is management of engineering. 30 credit </p>
<p>At Lehigh U, my major is healthcare engineering system with 27 credit which is said that the major is easy for students to find a job at the east coast.</p>
<p>I will arrive at USA at August and must do a choose recently.</p>
<p>I really would like to work several years at USA and then go back to China, my homeland.</p>
<p>Could you pls kindly give me some advise from your opinion. Appreciate much for your any instruction!!! O(∩_∩)O~</p>
<p>What kind of position do you want to end up in?
The USC major is more of a general administration degree, Lehigh is a health care spefic degree.</p>
<p>According to US News, which publishes the most popular college rankings, USC is a top-25 US university, and its engineering graduate school is in the top 10.</p>
<p>Lehigh has a good reputation for engineering on the East Coast, but isn’t as well known elsewhere.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the job market in China is like, but in the United States anyone with an advanced degree involving health care management would be in demand. I work at a large health care company in San Francisco, and we have a very hard time finding and keeping people with that kind of expertise. I saw that USC’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering has a Master of Health Systems Management Engineering program. If you want a job in health care management, see if you can get into that program. If you can’t, go with the Lehigh program.</p>
<p>If you are more interested in high-tech or manufacturing management, the Engineering Management degree would be more relevant. I got my Masters in Industrial Engineering from USC, and the Engineering Management program looks a lot like that. The problem with the EM degree is it’s very general and theoretical, and most US employers probably wouldn’t want to hire you unless you also had a few years of work experience.</p>
<p>Lehigh is certainly reputable on the east coast. People on the west coast will have heard of it, but won’t know much about it. </p>
<p>In terms of job prospects in the US, it should be easier to get a job with the healthcare engineering systems degree from Lehigh then the engineering management degree from USC. The degree will be more important than the school.</p>
<p>If you inquire about changing your degree program at USC, let them know that you’re considering enrolling in Lehigh’s healthcare engineering systems program.</p>
<p>With a Lehigh degree it might be a little easier to find a job on the east coast, and with a USC degree it should be easier to find a job on the west coast. But people with degrees in healthcare engineering or healthcare management systems will be in demand anywhere in the US</p>
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