<p>Well, those rates are pretty standard across the board. I know plenty of engineers who didn’t graduate from those top schools who are making in those salary ranges. Whoop tee doo. A degree will from MIT, Caltech, etc, will benifit someone wanting to go into consulting. That will give them the chance to make really nice starting salaries that people from other schools are excluded from. Anyway, I don’t care where you graduate from if you do oil refining or oil/gas extraction you’ll make more than any engineer in any field, in any area of the country, so who cares about the school you graduate from. It has more to do with geographic location.</p>