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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No Brown?[/quote]

Good catch, somehow that slipped through the cracks. Including Brown it's now:

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Princeton
---Big Gap---
4. Harvard
5. Yale
6. Duke
7. Penn
---Big Gap---
8. Caltech
9. Northwestern
10. Columbia
11. Vanderbilt
12. UCLA
13. Berkeley
14. UMich
15. Dartmouth
16. Georgetown
17. Johns Hopkins
18. Cornell
19. Notre Dame
20. WashU (tie)
20. UChicago (tie)
22. Brown
23. UNC
24. UF (tie)
24. UVA (tie)
26. CMU
---Big Gap---
27. Georgia Tech
28. UCSD
29. USC
30. Emory
31. UIUC
32. UCD
33. UCI
34. UW Seattle
35. BC
36. Wake Forest
37. UT Austin
38. UW Madison
---Big Gap---
39. W&M
40. UCSB
41. Lehigh
42. Purdue
---Big Gap---
43. Texas A&M
44. UMD
45. Virginia Tech
46. BU
47. UGA
48. NYU
49. NCSU
50. BYU[/quote]

Can't we learn more on Reddit? Nearly identical posts and lists have been put on at least 2 other threads. Wallet Hub and Degree Choices...does anyone view those as sources of college rankings?

Looking at early career earnings with no major or field data is also misleading. Shocker... with the current tech market, schools with more limited scopes and with large proportions of graduates going into tech have high early career earners (CalTech, CMU, MIT, Harvey Mudd)! That doesn't mean, for example, going to those schools for CS will yield you better earnings than similar graduates from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton, all of which have lower early career earnings in Money's system. On another thread, it was also pointed out that Stanford's CS grads have the highest initial salaries for CS majors.[/quote]

Degree Choices is brand new and has actually been covered on other news publications such as Forbes, I expect it will rise in popularity. Also regarding salaries, several of the rankings compare salaries to other schools with similar major breakdowns. If you look at Money for example, they say "Graduates’ earnings adjusted for majors (20%). This takes a weighted average salary for each college, using earnings data from the College Scorecard, and compares it with colleges that graduate students in a similar mix of majors."[/quote]

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