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[quote=Anonymous]You have to be really careful when comparing salaries and trying to draw conclusions.  First, women graduates on average only make a little over 80% as much as male college graduates.  The factors could be outright discrimination, a motherhood penalty, and a tendency for women to choose majors with lower earnings.  The upshot is, a school with comparatively more men will tend to have higher earnings than one with more women.  Mix of majors is a huge factor.   Schools with a higher percentage of in demand tech graduates will often have higher salaries.  But it isn't necessarily the school per se that is bestowing the earnings advantage -- it comes down to the choice of major.  So you really need to compare specifically for a major or intended field.

Back to Virginia Tech, it has a higher percentage of men and a high percentage of engineering graduates.  This is going to skew earnings data.  But you need to evaluate based on your major.  (Note that another school that comes out high in earnings is VMI, which is overwhelmingly male.)[/quote]

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