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<p>Well I have never heard of City College or Manhattan being elite in engineering, so you might expect they wouldn’t be super high on that list. Cooper Union is good but very small so it only takes one or two people to have a lower paying job to bring the average down, and the Fu Foundation is a great program, but not on part with some of the other ones on that list, so it isn’t surprising that they would be a little lower on the list.</p>
<p>Average salary is very regional, but even an inferior (from a recruiting standpoint) school in Manhattan won’t reach the levels of a powerhouse Midwestern school. When you have two comparable programs from different regions, that is where the regional variation comes in.</p>