Computer Science majors after college...

csprof2000
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:15:06 +0000

With a 3.9 - 4.0 GPA from a state school with a solid - nothing special, but research is done there - CS department, relevant internships / co-ops, and a short list of ECs, you can definitely expect at least $60 k, I would imagine. Your degree may not have the same name recognition as those from the top schools, but you shouldn’t fare any worse than most students from top schools. Now, if somebody went to MIT and was president of 5 organizations, had 5 internships with NASA, the NSF, the NSA, Google and Microsoft and had a 4.0 and semesters of undergraduate research with a list of papers, that would be hard to beat, and rightly so. But you would automatically beat out a 3.5 MIT student with no work experience and no ECs to speak of.

The BLS is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides occupational outlooks for various professions, among them, computer software engineers, computer scientists, database administrators, etc.

Computer related fields are among the fastest growing, best paid, and most satisfying in the market. Demand exceeds supply by an order of magnitude, and the artificially low supply is maintained by the myth that computer jobs are going overseas. It’s bad for employers, but great for employees.