I think this is BS. Cost of living is very different. Jobs/majors are very different. Consulting companies may pay more but may not pay benefits. You are comparing apples to oranges.
I believe the data from this site is not statistically representative of all the grads from these schools. If I recall, @ucbalumnus might be able to expand on that.
Also @Maryland85, you still missed that last E in Berkeley. A common mistake, but an eyesore to Cal alums.
This is among the reasons I prefer “Cal”. In part I am just old school, but also it is much easier to spell–although I guess UCLA even more so . . . .
Interesting that 5 of the top 15 are Ivies whom are often labeled as not having highly reputed CS programs. Similarly we are often told ROI and earning potential is the “best” measure of a schools value.
Hard to argue that Ivies seem to do pretty well for themselves.
There is definitely a statistical correlation between Ivy grads and people who make a lot of money.
I think the gist of the debate is how much of that is actual causation, particularly causation that arises merely from choosing an Ivy versus a different highly selective college.
From my point of view, the ranking is pretty useless unless you are specifically looking at a measure of upward mobility. It only includes a subset of graduates at each school (recipients of federal aid), which in some cases may be well less than 50%. If you add in all the rest of the graduates, we have no idea what the rankings would look like.
The other thing is - no one has any idea what roles these folks are in.
Some may be in higher paying roles by choice (different levels of travel, different places of living (from a cost perspective), they may not even be pure CS jobs per say).
If this includes the federally funded Direct Loans, I do NOT think that is a clarifying metric. There are low, medium and high income students who take these loans.
It does. The only students that aren’t included are full pay students. I posted it because I was surprised and tech bros are very adamant about the top 10 CS schools but the results dont pan out that way. UT Austin, Gatech, U Mich and other powerhouses dont make the top 30.