Which has a better scope and why: Mechanical Engineering or Automobile Engineering?

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Both engineering have their own significant values but as you can see there are only few private colleges which holds the degree of automobile engineering. So, its better to go with mechanical engineering as mechanical engineering provide many job opportunities nowadays in all private sector and pub

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Deepak Prajapati
7 years ago
If you are talking about India, I think we have large scope of automobile engineers. The automobile sector is getting bigger day by day as many foreign car brands starting there manufacturing plants in India. The companies which already have there plant are planning to expand. Companies like Hyundai

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Harsh Ranjan
8 years ago
Automobile Engineering came from mechanical engineering so in mechanical engineering you will learn every mechanical object or machines out there in the world. You will have more generalised subjects like theory of machines, dynamics and kinetics of machines. You will have machine oriented problems

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Deepanchal Bansal
8 years ago
Hello dear, Mechanical engineering is one of the core branches in engineering. If I compare between mechanical and automobile engineering it is like "Mechanical Engineering is the parent branch of Automobile Engineering". In mechanical engineering, you will deal with the subjects which contain the

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Aditya Doiphode
8 years ago
Both are pretty good branches but you should know that Automobile is a sub-branch of mechanical. Mechanical Engineering has a lot of sub-branches and many good opportunities. It provides a variety of fields to work on. In mechanical, there are many sub-branches which have many jobs to offer: Aerosp

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Manish Motwani
8 years ago
The question is very accurate and many peoples may have the same doubt regarding the stream. Here all I am going to do is to keep the actual facts and logical scenario of the current scope rather than a motivational and hardworking speech. In automobile engineering students work with machinery and p

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Zubin Mehta
8 years ago
Mechanical Engineering is the Father branch of Automobile Engineering. Mechanical deals with the basics and core concepts that are used in almost every mechanical object but automobile deals with only subjects or courses that would help in making or studying an Automobile altogether. Basics are sa

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Dr  Swastik Sahu
8 years ago
Automobile engineering is a sub branch of mechanical engineering, though it is studied as main branch in some engineering colleges. Difference according to study: In mechanical engineering, you will learn every mechanical object or machines out there in the world. You will have more generalized subj

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