Top Colleges for Finance, Tech and Consulting WSJ Article

Data10
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:13:36 +0000

BKSquared:

“If the chosen career and the number of years in the field are the same, what effect does the undergraduate school somebody went to have on their salary?”

If graduates from 2 colleges average different mid career salaries, that does not mean that the name of the undergraduate school is the primary reason for reason for the different mid career salaries.

For example, the analysis finds that Yale tech grads average substantially higher salaries than both MIT tech grads and Cornell tech grads. Does that mean that tech employers are more impressed by the Yale name than the MIT/Cornell name and are willing to pay a higher premium for that Yale name, and continue to do so for decades after the student graduates?

Or it might it more relate to things like a different major distribution (MIT tech has higher relative % engineering and lower relative % CS) and selectivity (Yale is more academically selective than Cornell. Academic selectivity is correlated with various aspects of career success)?