Individuals who obtain a higher education through traditional or online colleges - especially if they focus on technical or engineering fields - may have an opportunity to pursue exciting careers after graduation.

In fact, jobs for engineers and technicians are available in a number of sectors - from corporate to nonprofit to government.

For example, Partnership for Public Service has just released its 2010 ratings of the "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government," which showed that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Government Accountability Office came in first and second, respectively.

Closing the top five was National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a place that many aspiring engineers look to for career development.

According to the agency, some of the criteria used to evaluate each organization included effective leadership, support for diversity, teamwork, training and performance-based rewards.

Individuals who obtain degrees in fields such as aerospace engineering may see great job prospects, as employment in this field is predicted to grow by 10 percent in the coming years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.