Tufts vs Harvard vs Vanderbilt vs Upenn

Mastadon
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 03:10:09 +0000

@Much2learn -

The data you presented is interesting, but one needs to be careful in interpreting it because “Arts and Sciences” is not the same as “Humanities”

If you remove the dual engineering, business and nursing degrees, then the $56,100 Penn “Arts and Sciences” data corresponds to aggregating the data from all of the following Payscale Majors:
Arts - no data
Humanities $49,000
Health Sciences -no data
Math - no data
Physical Sciences - no data
Social Sciences $58,400

The Payscale “early career” data covers years 0-5 after graduation.

The Penn Data is only one year.
The Penn data has also jumped dramatically ($7000) in the last year - which is interesting…

If we average the last 5 years of Penn data, the $56,100 turns into $53,600
If we average the Payscale data we have, (which represents the two largest majors -humanities and social sciences)
we end up with $53,700

So, once we extract the meaning from the latest data you provided, it is pretty consistent with the Payscale data and therefore does not refute it.

So, in summary, the only data that was found not to be good so far was the College Factual data that you provided.