After all, your goal is to enter a field in which you'll be in demand not only today, but years from now. The more data you have to base your decision on, the better. Well, not exactly. Statistics don't predict anything. There is no tool yet known to man that can predict the future.
Someone sticks a microprocessor in a little chassis, attaches a keyboard and a video tube, and. .
I remember the sudden shift in academic EE programs from a nice mix of analog and digital disciplines to an almost totally digital emphasis. Students in EE programs were almost proud of their lack of analog expertise. So, as a headhunter, I quickly turned my focus to analog engineering-because talented analog engineers suddenly became hard to find, and they were worth a lot of money. Inside of a few short years, EEs who didn't bother to learn the art of interfacing digital to analog hit the wall. Don't miss the forest for the trees.