The material for the Extra class license isn't any more advanced than the sophomore level of an EE degree.
Been there, done that.
WOW, they sure have dumbed down the EE degree! Most companies these days appear to have a high level of well educated immigrants.
AND I would not suggest even mentioning amateur radio on a resume which is really CB for the 21st century in most respects.
Carl
Ham since 1955, Extra since 1968
Gee Carl, you got your Extra when I was in the 3rd grade, and you were first licensed 5 years before I was born.
Congrats. That means you're older than I am. If I remember right, didn't you work for National Radio back in the day?
I had an NCX-3 for a while many years ago. That was a nice rig for the price. I presume, based upon the seemingly condescending tone of your comments, you earned a BSEE degree too. Right?
When I earned my BSEE 38 years ago (class of 1982), you didn't even declare your major until you were a sophomore.
First year was loaded up with prerequisities like Chemistry, Calculus 1 (Differential), Calculus 2 (Integral), Physics 1 (Mechanics), English, elementary computer programming, along with your humanities and social science requirements. I took a 3 course sequence in History to satisfy my humanities requirement, and a 4 course sequence in Economics for my social science requirement. Sophomore year you got 3 dimensional vector calculus (Calculus 3), differential equations, signals and linear systems 1 and 2, Electronic Circuits 1 and 2 with lab, Physics 2 (Electricity and Magnetism), Physics 3 (Modern Physics - subatomic particles, etc), Electromagnetic Fields 1 and 2.
The only part that has anything to do with what you learn for an Amateur Extra was in Circuits 1.
Dumbed down? Hardly. One in three freshmen couldn't handle the workload and dropped out completely. 2 of 3 people declaring an EE major didn't survive sophomore year. What drove most people out of the EE program was Calculus 3 and EM Fields 1. Getting people to thoroughly understand Maxwell's Equations, while learning the calculus needed to do so simultaneously was more than most people could handle.
Compared to an EE degree, Amateur Extra was a piece of cake (along with every other FCC exam I've ever taken). From a purely technical perspective, the old Advanced class license was more difficult than Amateur Extra was, at least when I took them. Then again, in those days you didn't have to send and receive morse code at 20 WPM for the Advanced. In my experience, irrational fear of the code requirement is what kept most people from even trying for Extra back then. Of course that's gone now. Any sophomore level EE student enrolled in a competent program, should be able to almost coast through any of the Amateur Radio exams. It's not the EE programs that have been dumbed down, it's the Amateur Radio licensing requirements. They aren't what they used to be.
And who said anything about mentioning an Amateur Radio license on a resume? I haven't seen anyone care about that on a resume in 30 years. Regarding well-educated immigrants? They are no better educated than American students. In fact, many of them studied here in the U.S. But companies hire them on H-1B visas because they work cheap, and are useful to suppress salary levels among engineers. You just can't hire them if you're a defense contractor, because most H-1B visa holders are unable to qualify for the security clearance requirements.