Deciding Between UCLA and Cal (and maybe Georgia Tech) - Bioengineering/Computational Biology

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And be careful when reading outcome reports. Their limitations and potential flaws have been duly noted:

Problems and limitations with College career outcome reports: reading between the lines

As students are weighing their college acceptances/choices, one of the variables frequently mentioned is the college’s career outcome report, to consider how many of the school’s graduates are employed and what are their average salaries (usually starting salaries, though some also look at later career grads). While these reports can be an interesting metric, one needs to do a deeper dive and to be careful to recognize the limits and potential flaws with these reports. First and foremost, it is limited by the # of students responding to the surveys. As this excellent article Colleges’ career success stats don’t tell the whole story about how their graduates are doing after they get their degree notes, “This is, perhaps, the greatest selling point for any institution of higher education. Students consistently say that finding a good-paying job is among the top reasons why they go to college. As scholars of career education, we believe it’s important for students and families to know …