Carnegie Mellon worth the cost?

butterphingerz
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:08:49 +0000

lucky2010, I’m doing mechanical engineering

I looked up the average starting salaries for both schools.

Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering students have a median starting salary of $65,000.
NCSU mechanical engineering students start at $59,000. Plus a fairly large number of top companies recruit at NCSU for jobs and internships.

Considering costs and the oppurtunities, I will most likely attend NCSU.

That is, unless MIT, Cornell, or Caltech let me off their waitlist :O