Help me pick my school? WashU vs.Tufts vs. W&M

Interesting. I looked up payscale - the comparison is early career 51,900 to mid career 123,600 for tufts and early career 55,000 to midyear 107,000 for washu. So basically you make more at WashU starting out but at Tufts you make more mid career. It’s comparable and not really a big difference in the scheme of things. It also is an average of all majors that the school offers so it is like comparing apples to oranges.

For example if you look at Harvey Mudd which is a technical school their salaries start at 74k. That makes sense. However, why should it be higher than WashU. If they compared Harvey to WashU engineering school it’s probably similar.

So the payscale is a good idea but it really should be by major not by school.