Undergraduate placement and salaries

Shazilla
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:14:17 +0000

your question is waaaaaay too broad because it’s dumb to compare salaries of the entire school. because then you are comparing kids who majored in art history to kids who majored in engineering. the kid who majored in engineering will (generally) be making a much better starting salary than the kid who majored in art history no matter where they went to college. a kid with an engineering degree from a 3rd tier university will likely have a much better starting salary than a kid with an art history degree from Penn… it’s dumb to try and compare the average salary of an entire school.

WPI average salary is so high because they have a lot of kids who major in engineering and business… WPI has a very small percentage of humanities majors and humanities majors (history, english, classics) are what drag the average starting salary numbers down