Universities Ranked By Earnings Data: CS Graduates
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With new data coming out from the education department, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at which CS grads are making the most money. I have made three tiers out of the data, leaving ~40 top schools.
View the data for yourself here: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ Tier 1: Grads making more than $200k Tier 2: Grads making more than $150k Tier 3: Grads making more than $130k Tier 1 School Name Median Earnings ($) Harvard University $256,539 California Institute of Technology $253,305 Carnegie Mellon University $247,552 University of Pennsylvania $246,946 Brown University $218,525 Yale University $203,685 Stanford University $200,950 Tier 2 School Name Median Earnings ($) Massachusetts Institute of Technology $199,774 Cornell University $185,679 Harvey Mudd College $183,524 California Poly SLO $181,838 University of California-Berkeley $178,867 University of Chicago $175,145 Rice University $172,391 University of California-Los Angeles $164,612 Vanderbilt University $164,139 Columbia University $160,457 Duke University $159,845 Swarthmore College $157,852 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology $157,625 Dartmouth College $157,053 Tier 3 School Name Median Earnings ($) University of Pennsylvania $146,438 University of Washington-Seattle Campus $144,297 University of Washington-Bothell Campus $144,297 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $143,775 University of Southern California $143,152 Johns Hopkins University $140,666 Tufts University $139,886 University of Virginia-Main Campus $136,620 University of Rochester $136,559 San Jose State University $136,471 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor $135,625 University of Southern California $134,326 Emory University $133,212 Wellesley College $132,277 Northeastern University $132,227 Northeastern University Professional Programs $132,227 University of California-San Diego $131,731 Boston College $131,399 Northwestern University $130,650 |
Anonymous
| This is recently updated information |
Anonymous
| Is this entry salary or how many years into a job? |
Anonymous
4 years after graduation |
Anonymous
| What's up with the Penn numbers? |
Anonymous
| Are the MIT people freaking out? This board is always so pro-MIT. |
Anonymous
This site is poorly done and doesn't group things very well at all. Penn comes in at $246k if you look at Computer and Information Sciences, General. Selecting Computer Engineering also gets you additional schools (like Princeton at over $227k). |
Anonymous
| Santa Clara should be in tier 2 above Swarthmore at $159,782. |
Anonymous
| Source? |
Anonymous
| OMG, this nonsense again? Do yourself a favor and read Dale and Kruger, then ignore this. |
Anonymous
The median annual earnings of individuals that received federal student aid and began college at this institution 10 years ago, regardless of their completion status. |
Anonymous
So the data is limited to students who received federal student aid. It's not a university -wide data. |
Anonymous
up there in op https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ |
Anonymous
This is one of the most important factors you should consider unless you are a trust fund kid and from a rich family. This effort has initiated under the Obama administration with Department of Education as there are too much bullshit going in the higher education industry so consumers are better equipped when they make decisions. This is not some magazine promotion. The data and information is from FAFSA, IRS, loan servicing organizations. No data/information is perfect and open to certain degree of interpretation, but this is one of the most important factors to take a look when you choose your school/major. |
Anonymous
Why would it make a difference? |