<p>I have visited RIT (Rochester institute of tech.) and they seem to have a solid engineering program and a strong co-op program but if you find statistics from payscale.com or other similar websites, you will see that the average salaries after graduation are somewhat low compared to other tech schools. I know this is not a major factor in picking a college, but it is something to think about so I was wondering if anyone could answer why this is</p>
<p>Payscale.com does not account for the mix of majors in each school. RIT does offer many majors leading to lower pay careers like biology, advertising, business, medical illustration and other “practical art” majors, etc…</p>
<p>RIT’s own career survey by major is here:
[Students</a> - Salary Data | Office of Co-op and Career Services](<a href=“http://www.rit.edu/emcs/oce/students/salary]Students”>Salary and Career Info | Career Services and Co-op | RIT)</p>
<p>I also imagine that it may have a somewhat larger portion of upstate NY kids. If they want to stay in the area, the economy is very depressed there.</p>
<p>RIT has an unusually broad array of majors for a school that is largely considered a “tech” school. When we visited, we were chatting with a family whose son was interested in
Jewelry making. I had no idea how broad their offerings are in art. Also, They have everything from criminal justice, journalism, museum studies, motion picture studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, lots of BFA majors etc. that will lower the average. Does the payscale data include associate’s degrees? Because RIT also has those. So the overall average is meaningless. The table mentioned above can tell you what you really want to know.</p>
<p>I agree with the previous posts. The majors run the gamut from engineering to art. I am from the area and salaries are lower in western ny.</p>
<p>This is an excerpt from an article RIT’s President Bill Destler wrote last year regarding college scorecards. The whole thing is an interesting read (particularly with the release of USNWR rankings last week), but this excerpt addresses how the deaf graduates pull down the post graduation salary average. [Bill</a> Destler: The President’s New College Scorecard](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>The President's New College Scorecard | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>“If colleges and universities want to maximize their scores in such systems, then they should eliminate liberal, creative, and fine arts programs, teacher education programs, and many programs that serve special populations. At RIT, for example, 10 percent of our undergraduate students (more than 1,400) are deaf or hard-of-hearing. RIT is the host institution for the federally-supported National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and these students bring a rich diversity to our student body found almost nowhere else. But while deaf graduates from RIT are employed at a much higher rate than the deaf population as a whole, they still have a more difficult time finding employment and they don’t earn as much on average as their hearing counterparts. Should RIT close this program to look better on the college scorecard? I think not.”</p>
<p>thank you all for your replies. I did also notice when I visited that RIT does offer a lot of other non-technical majors but I also didn’t know how well those get paid. So thank you all for clearing this up for me</p>