<p>Neither is necessarily better nor worse than the other (some may argue that neither as it is now is particularly helpful for a high school student choosing a school on purely practical matters).</p>
<p>In any case, different students have different goals. For a very pre-professionally oriented student, if Payscale would stratify its reports by both school and major, it would be useful. But it does not, greatly reducing its usefulness. But not all students are very pre-professionally oriented. Prestige-seeking students will probably look to USNWR rankings.</p>