T25 overall + T10 CS undergrad schools ranked by post-completion salaries

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Anonymous wrote:But aren’t a large portion of students at top schools moving on to med, law, grad school directly after? Seems skewed.

Also the numbers are for three years out from graduation, so most should already be done with grad schools.

Law school is three years, med school is too plus doctors don't really earn big salaries until the complete residencies

Medical school is 4 years, not three,plus 3 to 7 years of residency all after 4 years of undergraduate study.

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Anonymous wrote:No Princeton CS ?

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Anonymous wrote:More schools can be added to 100k-120k.
For example, Northeastern CS: 108K

Is not T25 and not T10 CS, but still over 100K
So list is not really meaningful

the secret sauce at Northeastern really works!

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The brown numbers are 100% inflated. There’s no universe where the average Brown CS grad is making more than the average Stanford or MIT CS grad

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Gatech seems overrated for a top 5 CS school.

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I don't think GT is overrated at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think GT is overrated at all.

So does Michigan and UIUC to be fair. Their salaries seem low for what their rank.

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Anonymous wrote:The brown numbers are 100% inflated. There’s no universe where the average Brown CS grad is making more than the average Stanford or MIT CS grad

The data doesn’t actually show that. It’s self reported data from only those graduates who took federal financial aid. You have no idea how large the sample size actually is.

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Well, a Brown CS guy is selling his company, Figma, to Adobe for $20B dude. Yes, Brown CS people do very well. Your framework is dated, man.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, a Brown CS guy is selling his company, Figma, to Adobe for $20B dude. Yes, Brown CS people do very well. Your framework is dated, man.

There are anecdotes everywhere. An MIT alum is the founder of $100B Stripe which is planning the largest IPO in history. Stanford grads created Snapchat, Instagram, and Robinhood. We can go down the list even and I can think of at least 5 Duke grads who recently started $10B+ companies off the top of my head. The problem is this data is an average. And a PP basically explained how we got these bizarre numbers - they’re all self-reported and only account for individuals who received financial aid. Since it’s self-reported the sample size is probably small and insignificant. From my experience in tech schools like Brown, UChiago, and WashU are likely much lower in reality, while schools like MIT, UPenn, and Duke are much higher if you get the complete and accurate data.

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And “your experience in tech” is based on exactly what?

[Anonymous]

The guy is probably an attorney working for a few tech firms and that constitutes his “experience in tech”. Bashes anecdotal information and then goes on to make a lame generalized statement based on personal “experience in tech” sans any actual facts or new data.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, a Brown CS guy is selling his company, Figma, to Adobe for $20B dude. Yes, Brown CS people do very well. Your framework is dated, man.

There are anecdotes everywhere. An MIT alum is the founder of $100B Stripe which is planning the largest IPO in history. Stanford grads created Snapchat, Instagram, and Robinhood. We can go down the list even and I can think of at least 5 Duke grads who recently started $10B+ companies off the top of my head. The problem is this data is an average. And a PP basically explained how we got these bizarre numbers - they’re all self-reported and only account for individuals who received financial aid. Since it’s self-reported the sample size is probably small and insignificant. From my experience in tech schools like Brown, UChiago, and WashU are likely much lower in reality, while schools like MIT, UPenn, and Duke are much higher if you get the complete and accurate data.

+1 there is no way UChicago and WashU and Brown are as high as reported here. Higher end sample for them most likely who self-reported. MIT and Stanford and CMU are most certainly in a tier of their own for earnings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, a Brown CS guy is selling his company, Figma, to Adobe for $20B dude. Yes, Brown CS people do very well. Your framework is dated, man.

There are anecdotes everywhere. An MIT alum is the founder of $100B Stripe which is planning the largest IPO in history. Stanford grads created Snapchat, Instagram, and Robinhood. We can go down the list even and I can think of at least 5 Duke grads who recently started $10B+ companies off the top of my head. The problem is this data is an average. And a PP basically explained how we got these bizarre numbers - they’re all self-reported and only account for individuals who received financial aid. Since it’s self-reported the sample size is probably small and insignificant. From my experience in tech schools like Brown, UChiago, and WashU are likely much lower in reality, while schools like MIT, UPenn, and Duke are much higher if you get the complete and accurate data.

+1 there is no way UChicago and WashU and Brown are as high as reported here. Higher end sample for them most likely who self-reported. MIT and Stanford and CMU are most certainly in a tier of their own for earnings

Like you, so many posters have their own beliefs and disbeliefs not based on anything concrete, just gut feelings.

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What you seem to be missing is that this is about undergrads. Stanford, in particular, is stronger in CS at graduate level. All those famous start-ups from Stanford were graduate students, though admittedly most did not finish the degree. Carnegie Mellon and Brown both very strong in AI and quantum computing at the undergraduate level. That’s where the big money is right now. Qbits.