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Northwestern and Brown overall are on par with schools like Northeastern and below Boston College.

NYU Business: $93.6K
Notre Dame Finance: $96K
Berkeley Business: $95k
Boston College Finance: $94.6k
UVA Business: $96K
Georgetown Finance: $107K
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You are sophomoric and sloppy.  For example, I edited your post because you listed Berkeley twice.

Let me review your conceptual error regarding business placement.  https://www.businessinsider.com/best-college-major-for-wall-street-2016-8

Roughly 50% of Wall Street jobs went to business majors, and 20% to economics majors.  You think that means business is the best path to Wall Street.  But you overlooked that fact that there are over 10 times as many business majors as economics majors.  For example, suppose there are 100 jobs available, there are 500 economics graduates, and 5,000 business graduates.  Business graduates get 50 jobs on Wall Street; that is 1% of business graduates.  Economics graduates get 20 jobs; that is 4% of economics graduates.  So, economics graduates have 4 times the chance of landing on Wall Street.  Physics and applied math graduates are greatly overrepresented too.

Think about how selection bias affects those numbers.  NYU, Columbia (NYC), Berkeley (Silicon Valley), Northeastern, Boston College (Boston), and Georgetown (DC northeast corridor) are in expensive areas.  Northwestern and Notre Dame have impressive numbers considering their placements in the midwest.  I know Georgetown has good placement.  Virginia probably places students near D.C. or northeast.

I'm not sure about Brown, although my Maryland friend transferred there and I knew an economics professor.  I suspect many Brown students go on for masters degrees in forestry or divinity, or take low-paying jobs at liberal nonprofits.  That drags down the avererage salary.  If anything, it would help you stand out at Brown.

That is important.  The average salary is based on the average student.  Some colleges and majors are more selective, or attract business-oriented students.  But that does not mean you will get a higher salary by going there.

Finally, comparing Northwestern to Northeastern is ludicrous.  Northwestern has dozens of Nobel laureates.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation[/quote]

WTF is wrong with you? I asked you multiple times for the number of econ grad and number of business grads for T25 schools.  
You just keep repeating the same bullshit without a single reference or resource when I took my time to give you sources and actual numbers.

You brought in schools like Northwestern and Brown and claim its econ is  better.  I showed you actual numbers that clearly business majors are better, and now you are whining about cost of living LOL.  Novel pierce has nothing to do with undergrad outcome.
Northeastern's major metrics are on par with Northwestern such as the outcome at $80K, retention rate, student quality based on test scores.

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