Revealed-- Employer Preferences of The Top Colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This list is ridiculous. I’ve known plenty of Bucknell grads and haven’t met a single one who doesn’t earn well above average. Most have been working on The Street in client-facing roles since graduation. And whatever you think of Tulane (an endless debate on this board) are we really supposed to believe its graduates earn less than the national average for college grads?

This is literally employer preference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown grad with a humanities degree here. My starting salary wasn’t high (though was totally fine), but I had multiple offers and a job waiting for me at graduation. I now make $750k in an arts job that at least isn’t actively making the world worse that I didn’t have to go to grad school for. Starting salary isn’t everything.

You likely are one of very few in your industry making $750k. To be blunt, how many arts jobs do you think brown alum take up making that kind of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. OP stole this from

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/16tenex/revealed_employer_preferences_in_t50ish_colleges/

2. It's College Scorecard data.

The College Scorecard dataset only considers data from students receiving federal student aid.

Several groups are left out,
including undocumented and international students,
on top of those in more financially advantageous situations

It also doesn't consider cost of living in the area of employment.

Yeah this data is not really worth discussing.

Not really worth discussing? Other than the literal majority of American households who qualify under this umbrella.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown grad with a humanities degree here. My starting salary wasn’t high (though was totally fine), but I had multiple offers and a job waiting for me at graduation. I now make $750k in an arts job that at least isn’t actively making the world worse that I didn’t have to go to grad school for. Starting salary isn’t everything.

You likely are one of very few in your industry making $750k. To be blunt, how many arts jobs do you think brown alum take up making that kind of money.

Self-employed, owner of a business sure. I dunno too many "arts job[s]" that are W-2ed for 750k. Even Directors of MOFAs of Boston, NY, Chicago make less than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mid-career numbers for MIT pretty lackluster compared to Harvard and Penn or Stanford. or Yale or Princeton. I wonder why?

a higher percent goes to PhD/academia

Nope. It’s that engineering is a solid but not great paying career.

Its not all about money….but also the MIT and CMU engineers we know were making over 300k ten years ago in their 30s. Now making 450-500k plus bonuses. Marry either one of them to another similar salary (which is what they each did) and thats a mega rich family. What on earth kind of money does Dcum think you need in life? MIT and other top engineering school grads make very high salaries

so odd that mid career salaries are down so much from your day. it's 195 now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. OP stole this from

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/16tenex/revealed_employer_preferences_in_t50ish_colleges/

2. It's College Scorecard data.

The College Scorecard dataset only considers data from students receiving federal student aid.

Several groups are left out,
including undocumented and international students,
on top of those in more financially advantageous situations

It also doesn't consider cost of living in the area of employment.

Regarding the last point, I think that's critical. Salaries are regional. Many of the Ivies feed grads to not only high paid occupations but to the highest cost of living area in the US.

My salary might be 0-15% higher in DC. My house would cost 50% more at minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. OP stole this from

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/16tenex/revealed_employer_preferences_in_t50ish_colleges/

2. It's College Scorecard data.

The College Scorecard dataset only considers data from students receiving federal student aid.

Several groups are left out,
including undocumented and international students,
on top of those in more financially advantageous situations

It also doesn't consider cost of living in the area of employment.

Yeah this data is not really worth discussing.

Not really worth discussing? Other than the literal majority of American households who qualify under this umbrella.

“Literal” and “majority” do not mean what you seem to think they mean. A literal majority of American households do not fall under this umbrella.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This list is ridiculous. I’ve known plenty of Bucknell grads and haven’t met a single one who doesn’t earn well above average. Most have been working on The Street in client-facing roles since graduation. And whatever you think of Tulane (an endless debate on this board) are we really supposed to believe its graduates earn less than the national average for college grads?

Never met a Bucknell grad in a decade on the street. Not a target school for the bulge brackets or the top boutiques.

[Anonymous]

Most of these schools BETTER result in higher pay. For a large percentage, you are paying more than 2× for your in state public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is copying from a reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/16tenex/revealed_employer_preferences_in_t50ish_colleges/

There's lots of nuance that would need to be discussed, like the fact that this is one year post-graduation, supposedly not factoring in students in grad school/law school/med school

Or maybe just read the reddit thread.

Exactly I immediately thought of the Emory and WashU grads in medschool, and that they need another 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Niche? Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So odd. I thought employers said they were taking Harvard off their list after the protests!

Yea, right. Harvard is Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Payscale is a better source than this. You can sort by major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This list is ridiculous. I’ve known plenty of Bucknell grads and haven’t met a single one who doesn’t earn well above average. Most have been working on The Street in client-facing roles since graduation. And whatever you think of Tulane (an endless debate on this board) are we really supposed to believe its graduates earn less than the national average for college grads?

The above post is ridiculous from an obvious troll.

[Anonymous]

Yea, right. Harvard is Harvard.

The education could consist of repeatedly slamming your head into a table while chanting "Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker" and for at least the next 20 years they would still get first pick of students due to brand momentum. Recruiters know that Harvard gets first pick. Even if the education itself was terrible, the signal is still extremely strong.