Average Starting Salaries of M.S. and PhD

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Note that the estimates are quite quirky since they include those both looking for good starting salaries and those that aren’t; for example, someone with a PhD might turn down a lucrative option in industry for a postdoc! I’m also not sure how badly response bias is affecting these.

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<p>They also include those who take non-engineering jobs, as some MIT grad engineering students are wont to do. Career sin management consulting and finance, which some MIT mechanical engineering grad students choose to enter, pay substantially more than do engineering jobs.</p>