Is Tulane the right decision?

fallenchemist
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:28:50 +0000

I agree with the line of thought you have @kitty11. The one thing I would point out is that just using average salary for graduates of certain majors might be a bit simplistic, not to mention these things definitely can change in the 4 years of school. I student starting school in 2006 certainly might have had one set of expectations for the financial markets, 2008 changed all that so that by the time that student graduate the job market and salaries could be rather different. A more contemporary example might be petroleum engineering. The rapid drop in oil prices has significantly slowed exploration and building of new wells in difficult oil recovery areas, as well as at many fracking sites.

But even beyond that, there is more to choosing a school than salary expectations. It would be one thing if we were talking about a month at a place or a summer. But this is 4 years, so the overall environment of the school, the quality of your peer group. and similar factors really have value. How much value is very subjective, but very real nonetheless.