This is something that has always bothered me about most of the things I’ve seen that discuss or rank colleges based on general graduate salaries. Some schools have large swaths of students who are aiming to go into high paying industries and major accordingly, others with similar level of qualified kids less so. Pomona, Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd are a textbook example that bears this out. Three very similarly selective schools that are literally adjacent to one another where students can cross register for classes across the schools. Yet, graduate salary data are significantly different. Not because of the quality of the students or education. But, because on average the focus of the students who choose each are quite different in general - from traditional liberal arts academic type, to more pre-professional type, to CS and engineering type.
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