Universities Ranked By Earnings Data: CS Graduates

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Serious question: Do the posters of these "rankings" think that graduates are thinking "oh noes! DCUM says I should make less!"

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Anonymous wrote:The list is stupid.

No one thinks a Yale grad in CS is better than an MIT grad in CS. NO ONE, probably not even the Yale CS grad.

Or a SLO grad is better than UMich grad in CS.

The SLO grad probably works in the Bay Area, where it's stupid expensive (I used to live there), and the pay would reflect that. Who knows where the UMich grad is working.

No you are stupid. The numbers are the numbers. If you want to go get a PhD in CS then yea MIT may be better. But if you just want to make bank, Yale is better. Get over it!

lol. You lack data analysis skills.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD didn’t make the cut?

Seems there is no reported data.

and that's another reason why the list is stupid. Once again: the list ONLY shows data of people who had federal loans, that's < 50% of college graduates.

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Anonymous wrote:Are the MIT people freaking out? This board is always so pro-MIT.

LOL my kid picked Harvard over MIT for CS (in a previous cycle) and people thought my kid was nuts ( and some did not believe that my kid was admitted to both!) This is nice to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Are the MIT people freaking out? This board is always so pro-MIT.

LOL my kid picked Harvard over MIT for CS (in a previous cycle) and people thought my kid was nuts ( and some did not believe that my kid was admitted to both!) This is nice to see.

I'd pick Harvard over MIT too.

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Anonymous wrote:Are the MIT people freaking out? This board is always so pro-MIT.

LOL my kid picked Harvard over MIT for CS (in a previous cycle) and people thought my kid was nuts ( and some did not believe that my kid was admitted to both!) This is nice to see.

They're probably conservatives lol. They have this weird gripe against private schools that aren't STEM heavy

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Anonymous wrote:This is useless and misleading.

+1 It only shows those who took out federal loans. Sure, it excludes those who are full pay, but that also excludes some UMC/MC families who sent their kids to cheap in state schools with a 529.

It also doesn't take into account *where* they are working. $150K in Silicon Valley doesn't take you that far. $100K in Philly takes you a lot further.

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-majors/computer-science

I used to work in the Bay Area. When I moved to the DC area, and looked at salaries for my level, it was so much lower. Luckily, my Bay Area employer let me keep my Bay Area salary.

+1000 It's useless data, especially if the COL is not taken into account.

My recent grad (not CS major) living in Madison Wi is making the same as their friends living in Chicago. Guess who is do much better financially?

+1 useless list

My Rutger grad niece is making six figures with zero debt. She would not be on the list. But, their friends who took out loans would be on the list, and even though they are making similar amounts, they are struggling because of the loans. My niece is about to purchase her first condo at 26. Their friends are still living at home trying to pay off their debt.

Context matters. This list isn't looking at "debt loads" or "quality of life" or "cost of living". It's simply looking at salary 4 years out of undergrad, that's it! Nothing else. From a straight up simple 'salary' perspective it's useful. There can be a million caveats if you play that game. I happen to know doctors making over a million $s per year who still "struggle" with their finances, doesn't mean 1million+ per year isn't a great income.

It's not useful because it only looks at those who took out federal loans. The % of college grads who take out federal loans is less than 50% of all college grads. So, the list is pretty skewed.

$150K salary in Bay Area is nothing. $150K salary in Philly is awesome.

So...go to Penn for CS and stay in Philly...and you are living large!

I don’t think ANY Penn grads stay in Philly (I live there btw).

This is false.

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This is hogwash.

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Anonymous wrote:This is recently updated information

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.

So the data is limited to students who received federal student aid. It's not a university -wide data.

Why would it make a difference?

I don't know a single kid who gets federal aid (NOVA suburbs) so who are these kids? Not stirring the pot, but it is a demographic many of us do not know (don't slap me down here, I was a poor pell grant student myself, I just dont know anyone in this category anymore).
That said, it's probably not a terrible metric, just isolated.
Some firms are hiring kids out of my son's major with 500K packages with stock. You have to be a real go getter and the best, but AI, VR, Computer Vision, NPS, yeah, that is what they are getting. Trust me, I get the insanity of it after 30 years as a technologist myself. But some of these kids are doing ALL RIGHT. And they arent at any of the school listed by the way. Connections matter as it related to raising capital and having networks but when rubber meets the road, there are a few elite technologists at various schools not all represented here and they are banking. My only point being, going to these school is not the magic to this comp, you have to study the right things and show the right promise.