Hokies higher salaries than UVA Cavs and William&Mary...

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Anonymous wrote:Upward mobility among engineers is not great. Starting salaries, however, are.

They have high employment and if they graduate from law school they're practically guaranteed a job, where upward mobility is meteoric.

Yes, but then you have to be a lawyer. Most engineers I know would shudder at the thought of being a lawyer. Not everybody is looking for the largest salary possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upward mobility among engineers is not great. Starting salaries, however, are.

They have high employment and if they graduate from law school they're practically guaranteed a job, where upward mobility is meteoric.

Yes, but then you have to be a lawyer. Most engineers I know would shudder at the thought of being a lawyer. Not everybody is looking for the largest salary possible.

Then I guess they are very happy with their engineering degrees from Tech. Go Hokies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another list where UVA, W&M, vt and gmu lead Virginia's colleges. There's the top 4.

actually William and Mary is lower than more than half the VA schools.

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Seriously, this is all about the dominance of engineering as a good source of entry-level jobs and good career prospects. My dad was an engineering and always said it was the easiest way for a smart working class kid like him to break into the middle and upper middle class because the field was much more a meritocracy than business or other fields.

The problem is that not everyone wants to be an engineer. I didn't. I was OK in math and my dad used to complain about his job all the time, so it was a big turn off for me.

At places like VT, a huge percentage of undergrads are engineering or science majors (maybe half), which schools like UVA and W&M have small engineering and science programs.

If you compared business, social science, and liberal arts salaries at mid career at UVA and W&M, I suspect they would be higher than VT. That would be the relevant stat to look at if you were not going into engineering or science.