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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it really matter so much where to study CS? I know a lot of IT professionals who got their degrees from a no name college overseas and are doing great here in the US. My child is a high stat junior at TJ, wants to study CS and will do great after any college. MIT, Stanford - awesome. UVA, VA Tech, GMU - fine, will be successful too. [/quote] Slightly off tangent, but is there a difference in grad outcome between MIT, Stanford vs. UVA, VA Tech, GMU? [/quote] I’d be curious to know the difference in their salaries 5-10 years after graduation. A lot of CS professionals from my home country without a US degree live very comfortable lives here. Their wives didn’t work (weren’t allowed on the H4 visa), raised 1-4 kids, and they were able to buy nice houses and cars (not necessarily in DC, some in Texas and Georgia). In just a few years after coming to the US, their salaries reached $120k and kept climbing. Some of them are now at the manager-director level at the large companies like Amazon. Also, their English was quite broken when they came here, and they speak with an accent. [/quote] I work for Amazon Professional Service group, and there are eight engineers in the group. Two graduated from CMU, three from UVA, one from GMU, one from UCLA, and one from Michigan. My direct boss graduated with a music degree from GMU. All of us make roughly the same salary because we showed each other the paystubs. My boss makes 3 1/2 times my salary because he has the soft skill and can play golf well to get face time with bigger boss. Where one goes to school is important if you can get the right connections. Very few can do that. Most can not.[/quote]
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