<p>I personally believe that rankings affect opportunities and such more so than income. MIT student obviously get recruited more than anybody else. No one can argue that. Someone else even pointed out their ability for research through UROP(or whatever its called). Higher ranked Universities simply have more at their disposal. HOWEVER, higher rankings do still affect salaries. Is it a massive differance? No, not unless your comparing MIT to some small school like DeVry. But there is definately a differance worth measuring/considering. </p>
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<p>But here is something else I want to point out. I think the 20% graduation rates for engineers is absurd. I have no problems calling you on that sakky. Is 80% right though? No I don’t think that is incredibly accurate either. I believe there is like a 65-70% rate right now. I just emailed someone in the nuclear department at Berkeley about it. I’ll let you know when I get an answer. Then we can solve this for good and everyone can shutup about the rates.</p>
<p>Yall are arguing over philosphies too much. No one will ever win this way. Someone find some numbers and back their shiz up. There’s no point in arguing like this. Find your numbers and land that knockout punch. We’re engineers for christ sake! Not theorists. Use your stats!
<em>steps off soap box</em></p>