<p>It just barely misses the honors students. Graduating with honors means to graduate with a GPA in the top 20% of your college.</p>
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<p>What I am saying is that the strongest differentiating factor in salary seems to be your undergrad major. The truth is, the engineers at a no-name school tend to make more than the Art History grads of a top-tier school. </p>
<p>As another data point, consider the salaries for Princeton grads. Notice how the SJSU engineers make significantly more than the Princeton Sociology majors. The Princeton data also shows the entire range of salaries offered to various majors. Even the highest paid Princeton sociology major did not make as much as the average salary given to even the lowest paying engineering major at SJSU (aerospace engineering).</p>
<p><a href=“http://web.princeton.edu/sites/career/data/surveys/CareerSurveyReport2005.html[/url]”>http://web.princeton.edu/sites/career/data/surveys/CareerSurveyReport2005.html</a></p>
<p>So when you say the top person at Berkeley vs. the top at SJSU, you have to define what you mean by top. I would suspect that even the top Berkeley Art History student may not make as much as even the average SJSU electrical engineer.</p>