UCB EECS v UCLA CS with a Regents

firmament2x
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:13:33 +0000

UCB grads have higher salaries on average because more of them work in the Bay than UCLA’s which would be centered more around SoCal. The Peninsula-based techs as well as the SF financial-district firms/companies/banks have to pay a huge premium for their employees. Simply put, housing in the Bay is severely overpriced. A tech worker would be paying $3m for a Mountain View 1,300sf shack, so this is why many of the techs are going to telecommuting/remote-work, but then they’ll adjust salaries based on the worker’s remote location.

As to what @neela1 stated:

I’d pick UCB EECS. A lot of the gains in employment through startups etc happen in the first year or two. I heard my son telling me that he saw 300 interns from Berkeley at Amazon the past summer out of 1500 or so. He thought strangely [UCLA] was seriously under represented. The 32k is nothing. It is just one summer at a place like Amazon.

The supposed underrepresentation is undoubtedly in large part because UCLA’s CS program is under the aegis of its engineering program. UCB has 600+ CS graduates/year and most of them are through L&S, and pure CS at UCLA is ~ 250/year or so. For CSE it’s undoubtedly < 100 grads.