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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When the WSJ published a list of pay by industry (finance, tech, etc.) of college graduates by undergraduate institution not long ago, they separated it into public and private.  In very few cases would public schools have made it into the top 20 private lists.  [/quote] [b]You mean the list linked below where George Mason ranked above Brown and San Jose State ranked above Yale? [/b]You should notice a common theme here, and it's not public versus private. It's engineering or tech-focused schools, regardless of ranking, that rule the salary roost.

If you're interested in salaries, then you should really be interested in ROI. The smart move would be going someplace like Missouri S&T, which will put loads of cash on the hood for out-of-state students, making it very cheap while ranking #9 on the salary list.

WSJ does a "net-price" calculation as a component of their ranking, so one could argue that this would compensate for an ROI argument because ROI is sort of baked in into the list, but full pay type families would only be able to get merit.[/quote]

NO.  https://www.wsj.com/news/collection/college-pay-80428504

Requires a subscription.[/quote]That article is from 2023. I would think their latest data set would be most relevant.https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/salary-impact-2025[/quote]

That has nothing by field.  The issue with something like this is you don't know if the results are skewed by the major degree (e.g. having a higher percentage of engineers, who have nearly 2X average college graduate earnings through mid-career.)[/quote]

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