CS T30 post grad salary

  1. Brown- 272k
  2. Yale-271k
  3. CMU- 252k
  4. Stanford-248k
  5. U Chicago-227k
  6. UCBerkely- 225k
  7. Harvey Mudd-220k
  8. MIT- 220k
  9. Cornell-220k
  10. Harvard- 220k
  11. UCLA-219k
  12. Rice- 214k
  13. Columbia-205k
  14. Duke-202k
  15. Amherst-195k
  16. Dartmouth- 193k
  17. USouthernC- 181k
  18. Bowdoin-178k
  19. UPenn-171k
  20. UIUC-170k
  21. Tufts-169k
  22. Emory- 167k
  23. Williams- 164k
  24. Georgetown- 162k
  25. UWashington- 162k
  26. San Jose State-161k
  27. UVA- 161k
  28. UC SanDiego-160k
  29. Northwestern-156k
  30. Rose Hulman-156k

Any surprises?

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???

Whom made the typo for San Jose State.

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There are other typos, but Hose takes the cake.

Berkeley, USouthernC, Rose-Hulman

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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.

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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. :wink:

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How many years post grad…and doing what?

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College Scorecard uses income of graduates who used federal financial aid (grants or loans).

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4 years

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So…after four years, what are these graduates doing that net an average income (are those averages) in that range.

My guess is the roles they are doing are different.

Brown may have more in consulting or something like that vs. Rose Hulman or San Jose State.

San Jose State might have folks in the insanely priced Silicon Valley whereas Emory might be in the expensive, but much lower cost South, etc.

No UT-Austin.
Heavily private school focused so driven by consultants and not coders?

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It’s actually 5 years out. And only includes those who received federal financial aid.

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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 . . . .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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