<p>It also does not take into consideration geographic distribution of alums. A large chunk of USC and Cal alums live in California and a large chunk of Duke and Cornell alums live in the Mid Atlantic and Northeast. The average price of rent, home ownership and general cost of living in those areas are the highest in the nation, so it hardly comes as a surprise that those four universities lead the NCAA tournament in alumni salaries.</p>
<p>Of course, as belevitt and CayugaRed point out, it does not take career choices and student makeup into account. There are just too many factors to make any sort of judgement from average salary surveys.</p>