Students can now enrol for associate degrees with universities from across the globe, such as in Geneva, London, Paris or Hong Kong. Typical degrees offered are those like:

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering
Structural Engineering

Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain business-oriented disciplines such as Operations Management, but the engineering side tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative methods