<p>No Inmotion, the same principle really doesn’t apply for engineering. If you want to do engineering research in grad school, you will have to be a full time student so the best time to do it is right after undergrad. Frankly, I am not buying those salary statisctics either. I can tell you that from my experience, MS holders typically get starting offers around 15-20% higher than BS holders. If you look at career services for reputable engineering schools, this is typically the case. </p>
<p>Those statistics don’t make sense. For some of the categories MS salary is lower than BS salary. I can speak for mechanical as that is my area and from my experience that salary for MS holders is not accurate. I have seen 8-12k higher for MS holders.</p>