College Rankings-Money Wise

So here are the most recent numbers from MIT(the BIG dog in engineering). As you can see MIT likes to provide a very transparent picture with much more data then others. Significantly, the salary range is what is most important, and as you can see the top end for CS is $260K, but that is not realistic for most maybe just a few who are the 4.0 MIT students. I will point out that the salary range is quite wide and I imagine is due to the locale, GPA and other factors that we still cannot discern.

Major/# of respondents/Salary Mean/Salary Median/Salary Range/Sign-on Bonus Mean/Sign-on Bonus Median

Civil & Environmental Eng. (1) 3 87,667 80,000 - 10,000 10,000

Mechanical Engineering (2) 54 74,054 73,250 30,000-120,000 9,654 6,500

Materials Science & Eng. (3) 10 72,300 79,000 36,000-85,000 8,200 10,000

EECS Overall (6) 72 105,984 107,000 47,000-260,000 24,639 15,000

Electrical Science and Eng. (6-1) 6 78,567 86,000- 47,000100,000- 8,667 10,000

Electrical Eng. and Computer Science (6-2) 27 103,426 103,000 74,000-200,000 24,222 15,000

Computer Science and Eng. (6-3) 62 110,247 107,000 70,000-260,000 24,309 15,000

Computer Science and Molecular Biology (6-7) 5 89,800 95,000 - 25.000 25,000

Biology (7) 9 59,643 65,000 35,000-77,500 6,250 6,250

Physics (8) 10 76,093 85,000 10,000-160,000 23,000 10,000

Chemical Engineering (10) 21 71,138 72,500 30,000-99,000 7,700 7,500

Economics (14) 7 76,714 76,000 40,000-160,000 9,250 10,0000

Management (15) 16 88,438 85,000 40,000-260,000 11,154 10,000

Aeronautics & Astronautics (16) 16 79,313 79,500 60,000-98,000 8,813 8,750

Mathematics (18) 28 108,768 111,500 22,000-200,000 16,591 12,500

Biological Engineering (20) 10 61,850 63,750 24,000-110,000 6,667 5,000