Anonymous wrote:I'm a hiring manager and we pay kids from Penn State, UMDCP the same amount as those from UPenn and CMU. Where you went to school really does not matter!
Depends on the profession and the company/industry.
Anonymous wrote:https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
The Obama administration initiated this effort with the Department of Education due to so much bullshit in college business.
Rich people can skew the income data a lot with all kinds of advantages.
Many of the so-called elite schools have a big portion of these rich people.
The data is collected via IRS and loan servicing companies for students who had any sort of federal aid - grant, loans, etc.
Hence it covers most of the low income to middle class real people, and eliminates much of the rich people effect.
It's median income for ten-year-out from the beginning of college.
Of course no ranking or information is perfect and you shouldn't make a decision based on one factor, but this should be important information unless you are a rich trust fund kid.
Students don't necessarily stay in the area of the school they attended, but you can also consider COL(I don't think it's reflected in the data) and other factors.
If you are determined to go law school, medical school or grad school right after, then it's probably less important.
Some of the schools are highly tech oriented and some are very specialized.
I looked at mostly T100 schools, there could be errors, then please make correctiond.
Anonymous wrote:So how does this work. I went to GW but then law school. Assume it will look at my lawyer salary or will I be excluded because GW is not my terminal degree?
If you graduated from college in 4 years and after that also graduated from law schools in 3 years, then it looked at your lawyer salary into 3 years of your practice.
Ok but I am making money from my law degree not my GW degree.
You are one data point. If GW sends a dipropionate number to law school and that skews the GW ten year incomes higher, that's still of interest when compared to another school.
The data is for those with a bachelors only. Law, medical, MBA don’t impact these numbers.
Anonymous wrote:So how does this work. I went to GW but then law school. Assume it will look at my lawyer salary or will I be excluded because GW is not my terminal degree?
If you graduated from college in 4 years and after that also graduated from law schools in 3 years, then it looked at your lawyer salary into 3 years of your practice.
Ok but I am making money from my law degree not my GW degree.
You are one data point. If GW sends a dipropionate number to law school and that skews the GW ten year incomes higher, that's still of interest when compared to another school.
The data is for those with a bachelors only. Law, medical, MBA don’t impact these numbers.
Law, medical, and MBA should impact the numbers in that Bachelor's graduates of these schools may go on to get these professional degrees, and some schools have higher percentages getting advanced degrees.
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