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04-15-2008, 06:27 AM
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| starting salary?
What is the average starting salary for Caltech graduates with B.S. computer science? | 
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04-15-2008, 01:23 PM
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04-15-2008, 01:57 PM
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| The rest had better things to do than reply to the annoying survey- or had requests to complete the survey blocked by their spamfilter. | |
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04-19-2008, 11:17 AM
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| In the salary website RacinReaver posted, Caltech's median salary is 60k...shouldn't a Caltech graduate getting more...I mean comparing to even universities like gatech and cmu, Caltech's starting salary isn't much different if not quite simillar..where is the fruit of getting into such a prestigious university? | |
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04-19-2008, 02:01 PM
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| ^easier to get into grad school. plus you get cooler problem sets  | |
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04-19-2008, 03:47 PM
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In the salary website RacinReaver posted, Caltech's median salary is 60k...shouldn't a Caltech graduate getting more...I mean comparing to even universities like gatech and cmu, Caltech's starting salary isn't much different if not quite simillar..where is the fruit of getting into such a prestigious university?
| The people you meet, the professors you have, and the experience that'll last a lifetime. I don't think many people go to Caltech for the prestige, they go there because they want to be pushed to their limits. | |
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04-19-2008, 04:03 PM
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| Very true.
I'll tell you exactly why I went to Caltech. I wanted a classes that would destroy me if I wasn't completely on top of my game. I went to Caltech and majored in Physics. I found those classes. | |
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04-19-2008, 04:41 PM
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| nth-ing that no one (should) go to Caltech for a high future salary to effort ratio. You go to Caltech because you want to learn as much math, science, and engineering as your mind can hold. I know a lot of alums who took much lower paying jobs that they find more intellectually fulfilling over others that they could have easily gotten. Is that a waste of tuition? Of course not. I don't pay tuition solely so I can get a job with my degree that will pay it back many times over, I pay tuition so I can learn science from some of the best minds in the world (and I'm not just talking about the faculty) and have easy access to cutting edge research. | |
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04-20-2008, 03:31 PM
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| "The people you meet, the professors you have, and the experience that'll last a lifetime. I don't think many people go to Caltech for the prestige, they go there because they want to be pushed to their limits."
yeah, that's exactly it... for example, i know that if i go to some "weaker" university i wont ever use my potential to the fullest.. cause there will always be shortcuts and easy ways around.. and even though i love physics and science in general, i love to sleep all day too hehehe  so it's better not to offer me an opportunity for it 
it's not the salary, the prestige or those kind of things that should attract you (though that doesn't mean they're totally unimportant, we're all humans in the end right ), but more the people, the atmosphere, the fact that you will learn so much amazing things until your head blows...
<well at least i hope i'm not idealizing caltech too much hahaha> | |
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04-20-2008, 04:06 PM
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| Yeah, I should actually say that I turned down a school ranked about 10 places higher than Caltech for my field (#2 vs. 12/13) in my field for graduate studies. Even though I'm a bit disappointed in the way Caltech handles the curriculum in my field (any other school what I'm doing would be an applied physics degree instead of materials science), I've found all of the people I've met here to be completely top notch. At the other school I had been looking at that was ranked much higher *cough*UCSB*cough* the other grads seemed more much interested in what they could do outside of the school than what they could accomplish in their lab.
Heck, the general sentiment I've gotten from other grads in my lab is that if you're interested in a subject here, don't take a class on it, buy a textbook or two and read through it. You'll learn more of what you want in less time than if you took a class. But they all agree it's still one of the best schools out there because of the people you'll meet and the things you'll learn from them. | |
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04-25-2008, 01:57 AM
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| What is the starting salary for a Caltech graduate who completed MS. What is the median and what is the 'high' salary. For ME, CS, EE and Aerospace...can someone help me find it...I haven't had any luck. | |
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04-25-2008, 02:45 AM
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| I doubt those numbers are available. Caltech has a hard enough time getting its graduating seniors to fill out surveys, much less tracking them all down in five years to see what jobs they got after some grad school at other programs... That said, Stanford and MIT are the two most popular destinations for Caltech engineering students to go to grad school, so the starting salary for a reasonably successful Caltech engineering major is probably not too much different than whatever those numbers are. | |
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04-25-2008, 05:06 AM
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| Do you have approximate numbers? Can a guy from MIT, Stanford or Caltech get a starting salary of 130,000 after completing MS? What can it go upto? | |
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04-25-2008, 01:50 PM
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| Well, just from looking at the MIT and Stanford surveys for MS graduates, it looks like $70,000 for most engineering fields is about average. None of the engineering MS grads for MIT started at even close to $130,000 and the one for Stanford that did was for a MS in "management science and engineering," and presumably was not making that kind of money from a traditional engineering job. Even if you assume that MIT/Stanford MS grads who went to Caltech for their BS do better than average, most are not going to be starting at even close to $100,000. Engineering is a stable field and makes a good salary, but most engineering jobs just don't roll in the dough like you seem to expect them too. | |
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